By Kevin McDermott
April 15, 2014
STL
The man accused in Sunday’s triple killing at a Kansas City-area Jewish community center and retirement complex has left a long, twisting history of hate stretching from North Carolina to rural Missouri. What he hasn’t left, even now, are many answers.
Frazier Glenn Cross — also known as Frazier Glenn Miller — was a Ku Klux Klan organizer and key leader in the militarization of the group in the 1980s, before falling from grace with his fellow white supremacists for cooperating with the government.
His son, Jesse Miller, was killed by police in 2008 in Marionville, Mo., after gunning down a driver following a traffic altercation and then shooting at police.
Frazier Glenn Cross’ most recent headlines were for the racist radio commercials in his 2010 U.S. Senate run from Missouri.
“He’s been on our radar screens because of stuff he’s done over the years,” said Karen Aroesty, St. Louis regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, one of several anti-hate watchdog organizations that have long had reason to watch Cross. “He turns up on websites, and these newspapers he produces, ‘The Aryan Alternative’ … but whether he was engaging with a group or operating on his own remains to be seen.
“If he was really going after Jewish communities, why didn’t he find Jewish communities closer to home? Did Passover really have anything to do with it? … Did his [late] son have anything to do with it? It’s hard to know … because he’s essentially a traitor to his own movement. He’s the fringe of the fringe.”