Defense attorneys for a Missouri man accused of killing three people outside of two Jewish centers in Kansas say prosecutors are planning to seek the death penalty against him.
Kansas Death Penalty Defense Unit attorney Ron Evans said in a motion for a continuance filed on Oct. 28 that Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe recently told him of his decision to seek the death penalty against 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
The Kansas City Star reported Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, is believed to be the oldest person ever charged with capital murder in Kansas.
Miller is accused of killing three people on April 13 outside the Overland Park JCC and the nearby Village Shalom senior facility. The victims were 53-year-old Terri LaManno, 69-year-old William Lewis Corporon and his grandson, 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood. None were Jewish.
During their search of Miller’s home in Aurora, Mo., located about 200 miles from Kansas City, FBI agents found anti-Semitic paraphernalia, including a copy of “Mein Kampf” and a book Miller had written titled “A White Man Speaks Out.”
They also found a user’s manual for a shotgun, three boxes of ammunition and computer printouts with directions to area synagogues and kosher eateries. — jta & ap