White supremacist says he hoped to kill more Jews, but he still got his message across
“Because of what I did, Jews feel less secure.”
That’s a comment from avowed white supremacist F. Glenn Miller Jr., 73, of Aurora, Mo., who told the Kansas City Star that he went to Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and a nearby Jewish retirement home last year “for the specific purpose of killing Jews.”
The founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who rose to the ranks of “grand dragon,” said he was disappointed to read in a newspaper after the killing spree that the victims were not Jewish, The Star reported.
He is charged with killing three people outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish facilities on the eve of Passover.
In a series of phone interviews, he told The Star that he was shocked that none of the victims was Jewish.
“I was convinced there would be all Jews or mostly Jews” at the two centers, he said. But he said he still accomplished his goals.
Miller, who also goes by the name Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., is being held in Johnson County on a charge of capital murder in the April 13 attacks.
Miller is accused of killing Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood. They were at the community center in Leawood for an audition for a singing contest.
He also is accused of fatally shooting 53-year-old Terri LaManno, who was spending time with her mother at the retirement home.
Miller, who is suffering from emphysema and became concerned that he didn’t have much time left, said the killings were something he wanted to do before he died.
He said his one regret was the death of the “young white boy.”
Miller originally said he would not speak on the record unless The Star agreed to send a copy of the recorded interview. The Star refused, and Miller eventually consented to an interview without any conditions.
Miller also reached out to The Associated Press, but after he demanded similar conditions, the AP declined the interview.
The Southern Poverty Law Center described Cross as “one of the more notorious white supremacists in the U.S.,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Miller also launched the supremacist White Patriot Party, the law center said.
Miller’s attorney Ron Evans could not be immediately reached for comment.
