The white supremacist who wrote a biography about serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin founded the National Alliance major white nationalist organization.
Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn, Jr.; April 13, 1950  November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer who gained notoriety for numerous murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 
 His killing spree was the subject of a fictional novel entitled "Hunter" by White supremacist William L. Pierce, who said of Franklin that he saw his duty as a white man and did what a responsible son of his race must do. 
 Pierce founded the National Alliance, a major white nationalist organization, which he led for almost thirty years. 
