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Two white supremacists arrested after a West Coast “vicious, wild reign of terror” were heading to California to “kill more Jews” after allegedly committing four murders, newly filed court documents say.

David “Joey” Pedersen, a 31-year-old white supremacist recently released from an Oregon prison, and his 24-year-old girlfriend, Holly Ann Grigsby, are each charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the documents filed in Snohomish County.  The charges are related to the Sept. 26 murders of Pedersen’s father, David “Red” Pedersen, 56, and his wife, Leslie “DeeDee” Pedersen, 69, the suspect’s stepmother, in Everett, Wash.

“In the flight that followed these two murders, the defendants committed a series of crimes that spanned three states and included two additional murders,” Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Craig S. Matheson said in the charging documents.

Two other victims linked to the suspects are 19-year-old Cody Myers, of Lafayette, Ore., allegedly killed because the suspects thought he was Jewish, and 53-year-old African-American, Reginald Alan Clark, found shot to death in his truck in Eureka, Calif.

Both suspects have given statements to detectives and a California newspaper, confessing to the racially motivated crime spree.

The elder Pedersen was fatally shot in the head as he took the two suspects to a bus station in Everett. Joey Pedersen told the Marysville, Calif., Appeal Democrat newspaper that he developed the plan to kill his father because the elder Pedersen had sexually abused his daughter – the suspect’s sister – when the two were children.  That claim has not been verified, authorities say.

The suspects then returned to the Pedersen home where Leslie Pedersen’s throat was slashed and she bled to death after she was bound with duct tape. A sword was found near the body.