MARIONVILLE, Mo. - 
 
 Kansas prosecutors filed state murder charges against the white supremacist accused in a shooting spree that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites over the weekend. 
 
 Johnson County District Attorney announced Tuesday the charges against Frazier Glenn Cross, also known as Frazier Glenn Miller. He's charged for the deaths of a 14-year-old boy, Reat Underwood; the boy's grandfather, William Corporon; and a woman, Terri LaManno. The capital murder count is for the deaths of Corporon and Reat, said Johnson County district attorney Steve Howe. The premeditated murder count is for the death of LaManno. 
 
 Cross, 73, lives in the Aurora area and his racist activities have long drawn the attention of hate-group monitors. 
 
 "He was always a little bit different," said Brent Kasinger, who knew Frazier Cross as Frazier Miller. "He was always real nice and polite. He was not shy, that's one thing. He was not a shy person at all. He spoke his opinion, which you know, you could respect that at least. You may not like his opinion, but at least you knew it. You knew exactly where he stood with him." 
 
 Marionville's new mayor, elected Tuesday, calls Miller a friend. 
 
 "He was always nice and friendly and respectful of elder people. He respected his elders greatly, a long as they were the same color as him," said Mayor Daniel Clevenger. "Very fair and honest and never had a bit of problems out of him." 
 
 In addition to being mayor, Clevenger, also owns a repair shop. He knew Miller by many names. 
 
 "When I first met him, he called himself Frazier Mais. I think that was spelled Mais, if I remember right," he said. "Then all of a sudden he started calling himself Frazier Miller." 
 
 Despite the name change, Clevenger said Miller's biased beliefs stayed strong. 
 
 "Kind of agreed with him on some things, but I don't like to express that too much," said Clevenger. 
 
 That hasn't always been the case. Nearly a decade ago, Clevenger wrote a letter to the editor of the Aurora Advertiser. 
 
 "I am a friend of Frazier Miller helping to spread his warnings," wrote Clevenger. "The Jew-run medical industry has succeeded in destroying the United State's workforce." 
 
 The letter continued. 
 
 "Made a few Jews rich by killin' us off." 
 
 He also spoke of the "Jew-run government backed banking industry turned the U.S into the world's largest debtor nation." 
 
 Years later, Clevenger's views haven't seemed to change. 
 
 "There some things that are going on in this country that are destroying us. We've got a false economy and it's, some of those corporations are run by Jews because the names are there," he said. "The fact that the Federal Reserve prints up phony money and freely hands it out, I think that's completely wrong. The people that run the Federal Reserve, they're Jewish." 
 
 After prosecutors charged Miller, known as Cross, with murder, Clevenger said his opinion of his friend has changed. 
 
 "It was shocking that he would do something like that, but knowing him and how much was built up inside of him, I can understand why he would be the one to do that," said Clevenger. "He didn't expect to live very long. So after he done this, I kind of speculated that he might be wanting to go out proving his point big time on that. I imagine when he goes to trial, he will be able to really state his views on things, and I think he's just wanting to go out with a bang." 
 
 Although Clevenger puts blame on some minorities, he said he stands firmly against violence. He also said he doesn't hate anyone. 
 
 "I think it's terrible what Frazier did," said Clevenger. "He didn't have any right to do that and I think he should pay with his life." 

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 CLOSE Mayor told his comments were "vile and disgusting." He steps down after making anti-Semitic remarks similar to those of Frazier Glenn Miller. News-Leader 
 
 Marionville Mayor Dan Clevenger resigned Monday night for making anti-Semitic comments in the wake of the arrest of white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller and after aldermen voted 4-1 to start the impeachment process. 
 
 UPDATED STORY: Marionville mayor submits resignation letter 
 
 Clevenger, 59, said he was personally hurt to hear resident after resident say he was a local and national embarrassment to the city. 
 
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 Clevenger had told the News-Leader last week that he would not resign. He was asked why he changed his mind. He silently motioned to the residents who had come to the meeting. 
 
 Although he had supporters, those who spoke were overwhelmingly in favor of either his resignation or impeachment. 
 
 Clevenger was asked if the words he heard Monday night hurt. 
 
 "Yes, it does," he said. 
 
 It was a raucous meeting. Police were present, and at times residents shouted at one another. Resident John Horner read a prepared statement. 
 
 "We must show our neighbors, state, our nation and a global community our true, kind, caring, loving and accepting community," he said. "We simply cannot tolerate a public official who makes anti-Semitic comments." 
 
 Horner said Clevenger's recent comments about Jews are "almost verbatim" from a book written by Miller years ago. 
 
 Miller for years lived just outside of Marionville, and Clevenger had considered him a friend, prior to Miller's recent arrest. 
 
 "Please move to impeach the mayor and restore Marionville's reputation," Horner said. 
 
 Supporters of the mayor said he had free speech protection, but others in the crowd shouted that as mayor, Clevenger has a duty to speak for them, not embarrass them. 
 
 The meeting had some strange twists. At one point, a young man said that he had lived in Marionville a year and had never seen a single black person. 
 
 This prompted Dan Noyes, 53, to leave and return with his son-in-law, Damian Harris, 34, who lives in the city and is black. 
 
 Noyes wanted to prove that there was at least one black person in the city of 2,250. Marionville is 30 miles southwest of Springfield. 
 
 Harris is a captain with the Marionville Fire Department. 
 
 "The city has accepted me from Day One," Harris told the News-Leader. 
 
 Noyes urged the mayor to step down. 
 
 "I don't know if you still feel the same way, but that is between you and God," he told Clevenger. "But I will say this, if you don't step down, I ask you from this point on to keep your mouth shut unless you know that everybody in this town agrees with you." 
 
 Gene Smith spoke in support of the mayor and pointed at his fellow residents. 
 
 "I have seen a lot more hatred from some of you people than I have seen out of Dan Clevenger," he said. "I thought we had free speech in America." 
 
 Smith blamed the media for "twisting" Clevenger's words, and when a News-Leader reporter later asked if he could take his picture, Smith tried to hit the reporter with one of his crutches. 
 
 Former Mayor Bob Duda addressed Clevenger, who throughout the meeting sat stoically, saying little more than that he would make no comment on his recent remarks. 
 
 "The words that you spoke to the media, on numerous occasions, were vile and disgusting," Duda told Clevenger. "Mr. Clevenger, I am asking you to step down." 
 
 Resident John McCormick told the board, "We have been slimed, like in 'Ghostbusters.' " 
 
 A woman who stood next to him also spoke. 
 
 "I personally know and love a Jew," she said. "I have a grandson who is Jewish." 
 
 After saying that, she added that the investment firm of Goldman Sachs in New York City has played a large role in damaging the U.S. economy. 
 
 One speaker said Clevenger's comments not only engendered fallout locally but "across the nation." 
 
 She said Clevenger was hurting businesses, including local restaurants, as well as the Hillbilly Gas Mart. 
 
 Aldermen Mary Ellen Brundle, Kay Leffingwell, Donna White and Jessica Wilson voted to start impeachment. Alderman David Arnsmeyer voted against impeachment. 
 
 After the meeting, Clevenger told the News-Leader he regrets writing an anti-Semitic letter to the editor to the Aurora Advertiser about 10 years ago. He said he was heavily influenced by Miller at the time. 
 
 Miller is accused of killing three people near Kansas City. The three, who were all Christian, were shot near a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement center. 
 
 Clevenger was asked if he regretted any of his more recent statements, which reflected continued anti-Semitism. 
 
 "That's it," he said. "We're done." 
 
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– A small-town Missouri mayor lasted only a week in office after voicing support for the white supremacist accused of killing three outside a Jewish center in Kansas. Marionville Mayor Don Clevenger handed in his short resignation letter last night after scores of city residents made clear they wanted him to go and an alderman began impeachment procedures, reports the Springfield News-Leader. Clevenger got into hot water when he told KSPR-TV that he "kind of agreed" with the views of accused killer Frazier Glenn Cross. "We simply cannot tolerate a public official who makes anti-Semitic comments," said one of the many speakers last night. Clevenger has said that he and Cross were friends years ago, and Clevenger wrote an extremely anti-Semitic letter a decade ago to a newspaper. (It complained of a "Jew-run government" and lots of other things.) Clevenger, who wrote the letter before becoming mayor, apologized for it last night after the meeting.