WaPo | The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a respected activist
organization that tracks hate crimes and racist activities, said the man
arrested and identified by police as Frazier Glenn Cross is actually
Frazier Glenn Miller. Miller, the SPLC said,
founded and ran the Carolina Klan before he was sued by the SPLC “for
operating an illegal paramilitary organization and using intimidation
tactics against African Americans.”
He later founded another Klan outfit, the White Patriot Party, which
put him in violation of the terms that settled the suit brought by the
SPLC. He was found in criminal contempt in 1986 and served six months in
prison. He moved underground while out on bond and was caught in
Missouri with other Klansmen with a reserve of weapons, the SPLC stated.
The next year, he pleaded guilty to a weapons charge. He was indicted
for plotting to obtain stolen military weapons, and for planning
robberies and the assassination of the SPLC founder Morris Dees. As part
of a plea deal, he testified against other Klan leaders and received a
five-year sentence. He served only three years, the SPLC stated.
In 2010, Miller ran for the U.S. Senate, and in 2006, he ran for the
U.S. House, inciting fear among voters when his ads urged whites to
“take the country back” from Jews and “mud people,” according to news
reports.
Frazier Glenn Cross was booked into the Johnson County jail after
8:30 p.m. Sunday on suspicion of premeditated first-degree murder,
according to the booking report.
A public records search shows he has used both names. And in a
statement released Sunday night, the SPLC said it was able to identify
Cross as Miller after a telephone conversation with his wife, Marge. She
told the SPLC Miller had gone to a local casino Saturday afternoon. He
called Sunday to tell her his winnings were up.
Police went to her home Sunday night to tell her Miller was arrested for the shootings.
Miller is a longtime anti-Semite. His Web site, with the headline,
“Hey Whitey, Why Don’t You And Your Friends Build Your Own White Club?
It’s Not Against The Law To Be White, Yet,” features photos of “white
power” marches and radio interviews.
During a segment on an African American radio talk show, he told the
host: “I just started [Carolina Knights] with three men … and by the
time they threw me in prison six years later, I had built the largest
white activist organization in the United States with over 5,000
strong.”
According to the SPLC, Miller claimed
he read his first racist newspaper, called The Thunderbolt, in the
1970s. According to Miller, within two minutes, he knew he “had found a
home within the American White Movement. I was ecstatic,” the SPLC
reported.
