Cross was ticketed in Sioux City for failure to secure a child on July 21, 1993. The birth date listed in online court records matches the one Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., listed on his daughter's birth certificate two years earlier at St. Luke's Hospital in Sioux City.

Cross and three other men were arrested in 1987 in a rural Missouri mobile home stocked with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of bullets. Cross was indicted by a federal jury for a weapons charge and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"I was to plead guilty to one count of felony possession of a hand grenade and answer all questions posed to me by the authorities," Cross wrote in his autobiography.

"In return, they would recommend a 5-year prison sentence, immunity from any further prosecution by either state or federal authorities, and entrance into the Federal Witness Protection Program which included the financial support of my family while I served my sentence."

Marsh said she never knew for sure if the family was really in witness protection. Nothing she saw led her to believe Cross was involved in white supremacist movements, she said, let alone would ever be accused of murder.