‘Do you want him six feet under?’

$20 fee along with $35 in annual dues, and signed a “blood oath.” Less than two years later, he was at the center of a murder plot.

Moore’s tires crunched as he pulled into Newcomb’s driveway, marked by a sign featuring a pistol barrel: WARNING: There is Nothing Here Worth Dying For.

Newcomb was excited about a new idea he’d had for how to kill Williams.

“I have several bottles of insulin in here if you wanted to do it that way,” Newcomb said.

“Do we do it fast and get the hell out? Or do we want to grab him up and take him somewhere and shoot him with insulin?” Newcomb asked.

The FBI had outfitted Moore’s SUV with recording devices that broadcast live to agents as they drove to Palatka.

By then the agency had moved Williams to a safe house and placed police vehicles around his neighborhood.

When the klansmen drove into Williams’ neighborhood, the sight of police patrol cars unnerved them. “Can’t make too many rounds with him sitting there,” Newcomb said, eyeing a squad car.

“We’ll catch that fish,” Moran reassured him.

The FBI had other ideas. They contacted Williams through his parole officer, and staged a murder scene. Williams lay on the floor of his mother’s house, pretending to be dead. The agents poured water on his pants and tore his shirt to appear as if he’d been shot.

A few weeks later, Moore waited for Driver outside a Starbucks in a strip mall parking lot. He’d already shown Moran the staged murder photo, and recorded his gleeful response. The day before, he’d done the same with Newcomb, who’d told Moore “good job” and hugged him.

Now it was time to show Driver, who had said he’d stomp Williams’ “larynx closed” if he had the chance.

Moore handed Driver the phone. “That what you wanted?”

“Oh, yes,” Driver said, relaxing into a chuckle.

Soon afterward, Moran, Driver and Newcomb were arrested and held in the prison where they had worked as guards.

A jury convicted Moran and Newcomb of conspiracy to commit murder. They were each sentenced to 12 years. Driver received four years after pleading guilty, and is due out this year.

Even though three current and former Florida prison guards were exposed as klansmen, the state’s Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate whether other white supremacists were employed in its prisons.

A Confederate statue stands outside the Putnam County Courthouse on April 13 in Palatka, Florida. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Florida was one of the most dangerous places in the South to be Black.