A white supremacist who shot three non-Jews dead outside a Jewish center in Kansas City last year while attempting to carry out a killing spree against Jews is facing the death penalty after being found guilty of capital murder by a jury.
Frazier Glenn Miller, 74, a veteran who founded the White Patriot Party in North Carolina, never denied the killings but argued they were necessary to stop what he called "the genocide of white people."
The jury listened to days of rambling evidence by Miller, who was defending himself after firing his lawyers back in May, but took just two hours to return a guilty verdict.
After the verdict was announced, Miller said: "The fat lady just sang" and he raised his right arm in the Nazi salute. As jurors were filing out of the courtroom later, he shouted at them: "You probably won't sleep tonight." The judge reminded the defendant that the same jury will decide his sentence. The sentencing proceedings were expected to begin on Tuesday.
On the eve of Passover eve last year, Miller drove to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park before opening fire. He killed William Corporon, 69, his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, and Terri LaManno, 53, in two separate attacks before being arrested by police.
During the trial, when the prosecutor alleged that Miller had intended to kill as many people as possible, Miller interjected: "I wanted to kill Jews, not people."
A career in racism
Miller was present as a member the National Socialist Party of America during the Greensboro massacre in November 1979. He was discharged from the US Army in 1979 for distributing racist propaganda.
In 1980, Miller founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a local chapter, which later developed into the White Patriot Party (WPP). He was the leader and principal spokesman for the organization until his arrest in 1987, after which the group dissolved. The WPP was avowedly pro-Apartheid, and openly advocated the establishment of an all-white nation in the territory of the American South.
During his time as leader of the WPP, Miller unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party's nomination for governor of North Carolina in 1984, and the Republican Party's nomination for a seat in the North Carolina Senate in 1986.
