Kansas City, MO – The man who killed three people at two Jewish facilities in Overland Park, Kansas in April 2014 has died at the age of 80 in prison.
A notice from the Kansas Department of Corrections said Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., died Monday, May 3, 2021 at the El Dorado Correctional facility.
Cross was on death row after being convicted of capital murder in the deaths of William Corporon, his grandson Reat Underwood at the Jewish Community Center; and Terri LaManno at Village Shalom.
Cross admitted he traveled from his home in Aurora, Missouri to the JCC and Village Shalom in Overland Park because he wanted to kill Jews. As it turned out, all three of his victims were of the Christian faith. He admitted to the shootings multiple times, including while representing himself in court.
As documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), minutes after his arrest, Cross shouted “Heil Hitler” while handcuffed in the back seat of a police car. According to The Kansas City Star, he also asked the arresting officer, “How many f------ Jews did I kill?”
The avowed white supremacist has a deep history linked to anti-semitism and neo-nazism. He founded the paramilitary-styled Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and the White Patriot Party in the 1980s. Cross wanted to model the Carolina Knights on Hitler’s Nazi Party, according to the SPLC, and represented a new, militant breed of Klan leaders in the 1980s, preferring fatigues over the traditional Klan robe and training his troops in military tactics. The SPLC has an extensive history on Cross/Miller, which can be read here.
Cross also went by the name 'Frazier Glenn Miller'. He was using that name when KMBZ's Dan Weinbaum met and interviewed him for an in-depth report on his anti-Semitic activities in Missouri. The following video is from 2006 when Weinbaum worked for KMBC-TV 9:
Officials with the KDOC said they believe Cross died of natural causes, but that an autopsy will be conducted. Cross had been imprisoned in Kansas since November 2015.
In recent weeks, KMBC-TV reported Cross' attorneys were working to have his death sentenced overturned, stating that he should not have been allowed to represent himself at trial or during the penalty phase and that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
The Corporon family took to social media to share their thoughts following news that the man who killed two of their family members has died on death row in prison.
Mindy Corporon, whose father and young son were killed, released a family statement, highlighting that Cross'/Miller's death occurred on the day her memoir was released.
"We are neither happy nor sad. He stole so much from our family, but he didn’t steal our hearts or our dignity," reads the statement in part.