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David Eulitt's Case Summary

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This story comes to us from the little town of Olathe Kansas via the Los Angeles Times. However, this story was also on the front-page of The New York Times. Our author, David Eulitt, leads with the defendant telling jurors he didn 't care what sentence was handed down. The author continues, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe had urged the jury to recommend a death sentence. The jury convicted 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. of capital murder for the April 2014 shootings, Eulitt notes. This case is centered on Miller’s hatred for the Jewish community, as he is a member of the White Supremacy. Eulitt confirms that Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., is a Vietnam veteran who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in his native North Carolina and later the White Patriot Party. …show more content…

She froze. … And his response was to brutally kill her,” Howe said. “The defendant 's actions are clearly the type of case the death penalty was made for.” Miller also kills 69-year-old William Corporon, and Corporon 's 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. The author reveals, among Miller 's witnesses was his 39-year-old son, Frazier Glenn Miller III, who testified he doesn 't know where his father learned about “hating Jews and about hating other

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