Nazi Fan Found Guilty of Killing Plastic Surgeon

A Nazi sympathizer was found guilty Friday of murdering a plastic surgeon he claimed was promoting “fake” Aryan beauty.

Cook County Circuit Judge Earl Strayhorn found Jonathan Haynes guilty of first-degree murder in the non-jury trial and then ruled him eligible for the death penalty.

Haynes, who acted as his own attorney, showed no reaction to the verdict.

Though he pleaded not guilty, Haynes asserted during his trial that he fatally shot Dr. Martin Sullivan in his suburban Wilmette office in 1993 because Sullivan created “fake” Aryan beauty with plastic surgery.

He repeatedly denounced people who “dilute Aryan beauty” with plastic surgery, hair dye and tinted contact lenses.

In his closing argument, Haynes called such behavior hypocritical and said “when people start looking like hypocrites, they start looking like targets.”

Haynes, 35, a former chemist, also faces extradition to California in the 1987 slaying of San Francisco hairdresser Frank Ringi.

His father contends Haynes is a “lunatic.” But he was ruled fit for trial last November and insisted on conducting his own defense.

A penalty hearing was scheduled for Wednesday. Haynes waived his right to have a jury decide whether he should be executed. Strayhorn will make the decision.