A North Idaho attorney who defended the Aryan Nations and its founder, Richard Butler, is scheduled to appear in federal court today on charges he arranged to have his wife and mother-in-law killed.

Edgar J. Steele, 64, (left, in 2001) was arrested Friday at his Sagle home and charged in the murder-for-hire plot.

That was the day the women were to be killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, according to a probable-cause affidavit.

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