Accused Murderer In Sunday’s Kansas City Slayings Implicated In 1987 Hate Crime Murders Of Three Gay Men
Sunday’s tragic anti-Semitic murders of three people in Kansas City exposed a very dark side of America: the Ku Klux Klan may not be as powerful as it once was, but its former members are still alive, actively hating, and have long histories for which they were never brought to justice.
News is out today that Frazier Glenn Miller, the man accused of trying to kill Jewish people on Sunday — turns out, none of the victims were Jewish — had been implicated in the hate crime murders of three gay men in a North Carolina gay bookstore in 1987.
(Miller was arrested Sunday for the shotgun murders of three people in two areas two miles apart. A 14-year old boy and his grandfather were murdered at a Jewish community Center, and an unnamed girl or woman was murdered at a senior living facility.)
The Daily Beast reports today that in 1987, Miller “had issued a declaration of war against the government and distributed a letter containing a hate crime hit list that offered varying points:
“888 for Morris Dees 9 (head of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama); 50 for influential Jews, race traitors, politicians and judges, informants, government witnesses; 25 for abortionists; 20 for white race traitors, skalawags, carpetbaggers and Jews; 10 for queers; 5 for assorted mongrels and 1 for [blacks].â€
Miller was a suspect in the ’87 murders but cut a ridiculously generous deal with the feds which allowed him complete immunity from prosecution and witness protection for his family, in return for his testimony against two of his fellow haters.
His testimony did not lead to their incarceration — the jury found Miller’s claims to be unbelievable. The man he fingered was set free and no one ever paid the price for the murders of the three gay men.
Here, an excerpt detailing the 1987 murders, from the book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind:
http://books.google.com/books?id=6Yx1-sBC1VcC&lpg=PA132&ots=ExpJECoMEv&dq=shelby%20North%20Carolina%20bookstore%20murders%20gay&pg=PA132&output=embed
Meanwhile, the attorney for the man Miller tried to pin the murders on spoke with local North Carolina news station WLOS yesterday.
“He is a hyprocrite, he is a liar, and he is a murderer,” said Kirk Lyons, an attorney in Black Mountain known for representing white Supremists over the decades. Lyons, represented a man found not guilty in the execution style murders in 1987 at a gay bookstore in Shelby, North Carolina. During testimony Miller was implicated as the shooter but was never charged or an official suspect in the case.
Lyons maintains prosecutors should take a second look at the still unsolved murders and re-investigate if Miller was involved in the killings.
“For closure,” said Lyons. “For the grieving families of the Shelby bookstore murders, they should re-open the case and take a good look at Frazier Glenn Miller.
“If they had prosecuted him and found him guilty this tragedy in Kansas could not have happened,” said Lyons.
Watch:
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