NARRATOR: In December 2012, in Omagh, Northern Ireland,
alarm bells began ringing for the family
of 34-year-old Charlotte Murray.
Charlotte lived quite a distance from her family,
but she never missed a birthday or Christmas.
Charlotte's fiance, Johnny Miller, told her worried family
she'd simply walked out two months earlier.
WANSELL: Charlotte's just taken off.
She's vanished.
She leaves her dog, her beloved dog, Bella,
leaves her car.
Months turned to years,
and Charlotte Murray did not return...
nor were there any signs of life.
She hadn't registered a phone. She hadn't used a bank account.
As detectives continued to dig,
they realised Charlotte's boyfriend
was not the jilted fiance
he was pretending to be.
What seemed like quite deliberate
attempts to cover up and to suggest
that she was still alive.
He was determined to get away with it.
And he was very calm afterwards.
This is dangerous person.
Though Charlotte Murray's body
was never found,
in 2019, her fiance, Johnny Miller,
was finally proven to be
one of Britain's most evil killers.
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Johnny Miller's conviction for murdering Charlotte Murray
was without precedent in Irish legal history.
It was Northern Ireland's first ever
no-body murder conviction.
It changed the landscape of possibilities.
Now, people just weren't going to get walking away
just because it didn't just fill...
tick every box.
Dig deeper and deeper, and you keep digging
until you get the facts.
Charlotte's family is now working
with Northern Ireland's justice minister
on new legislation
that will put pressure on killers
to reveal where their victim's remains
can be found.
Losing a loved one in any circumstance is very difficult,
but for these families, they have no certainty
as to what happened or how it happened
or why it happened. They've never had that closure.
I would hope that the law
and the processes that we're putting in place
would help the families in being able to find the truth
about their final hours
and be able to locate the remains so that they can have a burial.
BRANNIGAN: Charlotte might never be found,
but at least that law will be introduced
and people will be... dissuaded from doing this
'cause they know they will never get out if they do it.
It's the last bit of power he has over the family.
"I'm not telling you, and you can't make me.
I'm still saying I'm innocent,
even though I've been proven guilty."
DS James Brannigan, who was part of the team
that brought Miller to justice,
lives in hope that the killer might one day do the right thing.
He's been convicted.
He's had his appeal heard, his appeal has been rejected.
You know, if he has any moral fibre in him,
just put the family out of misery
and let them know where Charlotte is.
Only time will tell if Johnny Miller will end his silence
and give Charlotte's family the closure they deserve.
This killer's story begins on the 16th of January, 1971.
John Patrick Miller
was born in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
He's originally from Coleraine,
his parents were very upstanding members of the community.
He came from a very educated,
privileged background.
He was very, very fond of his parents and his sister.
He seemed to have a stable upbringing
at the time with that family.
We don't know what went on in his life
outside of the family set up.
He was, by all accounts, a perfectly reasonable schoolboy,
but he was also a very fine canoeist,
and in fact, became an all-Ireland canoe champion.
This is a considerable achievement.
He then went on to become a chef
and was working in various establishments over the years
and never continued with the canoeing,
even though he had a talent at it.
One friend who worked with him said he was
hardworking and likeable,
never aggressive, never angry.
He worked for a time in the very plush resort of Lusty Beg
in Fermanagh, which is really top of the range.
That's where they actually met.
Charlotte was working there, too.
Johnny Miller and Charlotte Murray
met in late 2010,
and the 39-year-old chef
very quickly became the centre of Charlotte's world.
I think what happened
was literally a sort of...
spark of infatuation.
It was really strong and powerful.
Charlotte Murray hailed from County Tyrone,
25 miles from Lusty Beg.
She was the older of the two identical twins.
Her sister was called Denise,
and they were the sixth and seventh children
in an 11 children family.
Born just two minutes apart
in December 1978,
the twins were inseparable growing up.
They felt one another's pain,
and even got identical scars
when they hurt themselves while playing.
The two of them were... were wild kids at the time.
They sound the same,
looked the same, it was bizarre.
But they were close. They were really, really close.
Charlotte's twin described her
as the louder, more confident one,
always first on the dance floor.
Perfectly happy girl.
she could be the life and soul of the party when she chose to be.
But potential fractures between Charlotte and her family
always lay just below the surface.
She was a much-loved child.
At times, she felt...
um, there was more affection given elsewhere in the family,
but she was a very much-loved child.
But, drifted.
She definitely did drift.
I know she would've fallen out with siblings from time to time,
and it would've been quite fractious relationship at times.
And you look at when she was growing up
was in the midst of what was going on here
during The Troubles.
So, it was quite a chaotic life, and children would...
could get lost in that... that atmosphere at that time.
And she did.
In her 20s, Charlotte experienced
some trouble with her mental health.
She was getting treatment, she was being looked after
by medical professionals,
but it looked like she was getting onto a more stable footing.
She was a hard worker,
very hard worker, never out of a job for long.
Worked in the hospitality industry
either as waitressing
or front of house, or those sort of things.
This was the young woman who, in late 2010,
fell for chef Johnny Miller,
on the resort island of Lusty Beg.
In early 2011,
32-year-old Charlotte moved with Miller
to a small village in County Tyrone.
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They then moved to Moy,
where Johnny and Charlotte got a job in the Cohannon Inn.
So they were both working together, living together,
and living up in Roxborough Heights in Moy.
Moy is a small village.
It has a town square.
It's really a pretty village,
and the people are very close to each other,
and everybody would be friends with everybody.
In their new home,
Charlotte set about making a life for herself with Miller.
It seems to have been a good relationship to begin with.
She described him as protective of her.
She was clearly very, very...
entranced by Mr. Miller.
But she would've been very...
I use this term respectfully, needy.
She liked affection,
and I think we all do.
But she liked to have someone there caring about her,
worrying about her, looking after her.
She liked that and she needed it.
And that seemed to give her some stability.
There was, perhaps, a darker side to the bond
Charlotte and her new boyfriend
seemed to have quickly developed.
Two of them moved quite quickly together;
moved in together, worked together.
It was very, very quick.
She would've known nobody except him.
All this happened within three months,
and that's always a concerning sign
because it can suggest that there's a bit of
control in that relationship.
On the surface, though, Charlotte seemed settled.
She got a little dog, Bella,
her pride and joy,
and the couple made new friends in the area.
She was a regular in the local bar,
she had a group of friends.
On the 29th of February, 2012, leap year day,
Charlotte actually proposed to Miller.
She said about getting married, and he agreed.
She chose the ring and he paid for it.
Charlotte seemed happy to be engaged.
But her family was not invited to share in her joy.
Despite living just 35 miles from Moy,
they never got to meet her fiance.
There was some Facebook contacts
and maybe the occasional phone call,
but as far as the family knew,
she was simply with a new bloke.
She never took Miller to see them.
When Charlotte Murray's family
finally came face-to-face
with Johnny Miller 13 months later,
they would not be celebrating the couple's engagement.
Instead, they'd be desperately searching
for a missing person.
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NARRATOR: In the spring of 2012,
while living with her boyfriend, Johnny Miller,
in the village of Moy in County Tyrone,
33-year-old Charlotte Murray
became increasingly isolated
from her mother and siblings.
I think there was some determination
on the part of Johnny Miller to...
isolate and control Charlotte.
There was one peculiar instance
where Charlotte rang her mother
when she was living with Johnny.
And the mother recounts this conversation where
the male voice in the background was saying,
"They don't love you anymore."
Now, how was she being controlled in that environment?
We don't know.
WANSELL: Significantly, very shortly after
Charlotte proposed to Miller,
the twins fell out.
Working together,
living together, socialising together,
they were always together.
Same group of friends, same group of everything.
Charlotte probably couldn't have confided in anybody
if there was an issue.
Another concerning thing that we find out about Johnny Miller
is that he was porn addicted,
and that he used to regularly
seek the services of sex workers.
Those things are really big red flags.
You put those two things together
and you probably have a man who's quite misogynistic.
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In the autumn of 2012,
there was another troubling incident
in Miller and Charlotte's relationship.
In the middle of October, 2012,
she and Miller make a sex tape...
obviously extremely explicit,
which Miller then urges her
to send to her ex-boyfriend in Belfast.
The idea was to say, you know, "Well she's mine now," type thing.
Given what we know about his behaviour,
I would be very suspicious
that Charlotte entered into that
quite willingly.
I think she probably didn't.
He's also treating her
almost as if she's a commodity, as if she's throwaway.
If you really cared for and loved someone,
you wouldn't put them in a position where they were doing
anything that they felt very uncomfortable with.
There did seem to be a jealous streak there at times,
even though he played this very blase.
I don't know that he was in a protective way.
I think it was more his male ego
that she would dare see somebody else.
It was around this time that Charlotte went to a professional
to seek help for her mental health
and to express misgivings about her relationship with Johnny Miller.
Charlotte goes to see a doctor
and says, "I'm very depressed
and I'm thinking of harming myself."
It was a sort of appeal for help.
She feels overwhelmed and she just needed space.
But she tells the psychiatrist that she's not suicidal.
She likes life and she wants to be part of it.
She told the doctor
that she wanted to leave Miller,
but was afraid of being alone.
You can entirely understand those feelings.
Like the moth and the flame, she can't quite tear herself away.
A few days later, on the 20th of October,
came an incident that exposed
just how much the couple's relationship had soured.
Charlotte, Miller, and their friend, Kieran,
go out to the pub for a drink.
They were celebrating a birthday in Bishop's bar.
They all left together,
but they just went different ways.
Charlotte and Kieran ended up outside his house,
and at that point, they went into the house.
Johnny Miller was disturbed
when Charlotte didn't come home that night.
And then he is ringing Charlotte, ringing, ringing, no answer.
We know he was down knocking on the house.
After searching the streets until four in the morning,
Miller went home.
Suspecting infidelity, Miller told friends
this was the last straw for him and Charlotte.
I suspect that he then
really did lose his temper with her.
And the relationship, which had already been tense,
was even tenser.
It was a precarious moment
for a woman with a jealous and controlling fiance.
That was potentially an incredibly dangerous situation
for Charlotte to be in.
Ten days later,
Miller began telling his and Charlotte's friends in Moy
that the engagement was off.
Johnny was just telling them, "Oh, she she's gone to Belfast.
She's... We've broke up, she's away."
Charlotte seemed to have been planning to leave Miller.
She had been for a job interview in Belfast.
But had Charlotte really left
for a new life in the capital?
That would, you know, raise the hackles on my neck.
If you are in a relationship with a controlling person,
the most common trigger
that predicts homicide
is that you are attempting to leave them or you have left them.
11 weeks later, in December 2012,
in Omagh, County Tyrone,
Denise Murray expected to celebrate her birthday
with twin sister, Charlotte,
just as they always did.
The two were turning 34.
Charlotte was not always in touch with them,
but she never let a Christmas go by
or a birthday go by that she didn't get in touch.
That year,
Christmas and the twins' birthday came and went
without a word from Charlotte.
There's not a sign of her. Nothing. She's disappeared.
As such a large family,
they all thought somebody else had been talking to Charlotte
until it came to Christmas and they said
nobody's heard from her. And then that's what prompted them
to start looking further into this themselves.
And it was a blessing that she had that family behind her
to ask those questions, at the time.
They then started contacting Johnny after that
to see had he seen Charlotte, when's the last time you saw her?
"Well, Charlotte left. Charlotte's just taken off.
Oh, I dunno where she's gone. I'm not sure."
Miller told Charlotte's family
that she had left him around Halloween 2012.
FOWLES: He kept assuring it was all right.
"We've split up, what do you want me to tell you?
You know, she's not my problem anymore."
Miller would say that, "Oh, she texted me the other day there,
she's met some new guy,"
and was very flippant about it.
I think at one point he suggests to them
that she might have gone to Belfast to work in a call centre.
January, February that year,
he arranged to meet them and brought them
a box of her belongings,
which was really very little
of her actual belongings, and said that's all she'd left.
Miller told Charlotte's family
she'd left behind her car,
which by this time, was long gone.
He said that she told him to sell the car
because she owed him rent money.
She left her laptop.
Anything of value, she seems to have left behind.
What really struck Charlotte's mother
and siblings as strange
was the fact she'd left her beloved dog behind in Moy.
She never went anywhere without Bella, her dog.
And she was her pride and joy.
This wasn't normal behaviour,
not normal for Charlotte.
If it was Charlotte's car, she would've taken it.
If it was Charlotte's dog, she would've taken it.
Miller seemed very evasive,
not answering direct questions,
and just seemed very fidgety and edgy.
And didn't... didn't want to be there.
And it raised concerns.
With horror, Charlotte's family realised
they couldn't find anyone who had spoken to her
in over five months.
On the 13th of March, 2013,
they reported her missing.
Would the police manage to discover
Charlotte's whereabouts?
And would she be found
safe and sound?
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NARRATOR: In May 2013,
Police Service Northern Ireland
launched a missing persons enquiry
to locate 34-year-old Charlotte Murray,
who hadn't been seen by her fiance, Johnny Miller,
since the previous October.
Missing persons investigations are always complicated things
because they... the police, quite rightly,
say, "Well, perhaps she just wanted to disappear.
Perhaps she had enough."
Often, you don't really even know when someone was last seen,
particularly if people are lying,
or particularly if a lot of time has gone by.
The public, often trying to be helpful,
ring in tips and sightings and things,
which are very often wrong,
and leads the police into the wrong direction, down the wrong path.
Are they still alive? Did they go away of their own accord?
When the police knocked on 42-year-old Johnny Miller's door,
this is exactly what he claimed had happened.
BRANNIGAN: Johnny, in his first statement to police,
as a witness, in March,
said that no, she'd just gone up to Belfast.
And then his, uh...
his story was that while in work,
he got a text... (TEXT CHIMES)
..to say she was calling around to the house to pick up her stuff.
And when he got home, her stuff was gone.
It appeared that Charlotte
had also told other people in her life
that she needed a change of scenery.
On the 1st of November, 5:15 AM,
Charlotte apparently posts on Facebook.
"I've had enough. I'm going away for a while!"
I think she says, "I'm pissed off with life."
She also texts one or two friends
saying "I'm going away for a while."
And Miller claims that he's received texts from Charlotte
saying that she's going away. (TEXT CHIMES)
Detectives needed to find out if Charlotte really had
just left Moy of her own accord.
She hadn't registered a mobile phone.
She hadn't used a bank account.
Her lifestyle told us that she could not operate,
for any period of time,
without coming in contact with the state.
She's not seeing any medical professionals.
She's not going to the dentist.
The police also needed to rule out
the possibility Charlotte had taken her own life.
If anyone's ever had an episode in their life
where they've been unhappy, it seems...
often the leap is made that perhaps this is a suicide case.
At the time, we looked at it,
and if she had been...
severely depressed or suicidal at the time,
you were really focused on
the fact that she'd taken her own life.
But there was nothing there to tell us
that this was what had actually happened there.
MONCKTON-SMITH: Charlotte's body wasn't found.
And...
it is quite difficult,
depending on how you plan to take your own life,
to make sure your body's completely hidden.
Even if you jump off a boat into the sea
and your body is completely hidden for a while,
it usually, you know, it will get found at some point.
It's a very, very difficult thing to do,
to take your own life and for your body never to be found.
No body had been found,
but nor was there any sign that Charlotte Murray
was alive and living her life elsewhere.
Once the proof of life inquiries had proved...
or shown no existence of this...
of this lady, um...
it then becomes a murder inquiry.
And when the major investigations team took on the case,
the first person they looked at
was the last person to have seen Charlotte alive.
Johnny Miller was declared a suspect June, 2013.
At that point, you're able to then get warrants for the house.
There was searches done of the garden
and forensic analysis done of the house,
and it was declared a scene.
They find some blood spatters
in the bathroom of the house they shared.
FOWLES: The forensics took the house apart
and found blood in the bathroom.
They actually unscrewed the...
waste pipe from the toilet,
took it off,
and there were little traces of blood in there.
And that was Charlotte's blood.
They found a number of areas of blood,
which were...
down the panels of the bath.
There was crevices down the panel of the bath.
There was some in there, Charlotte's blood.
There was blood underneath the waste pipe,
where it would've dripped down underneath the waste pipe.
It was a find that suggested large quantities of blood
had been spilled in that bathroom.
Miller was questioned for a number of hours.
And he repeats this rather strange story
about she might have gone to work in Belfast.
I find it really surprising that it happens quite often,
that it seems to be accepted that a woman who disappears
has just gone off to start a new life somewhere.
I wonder how often that actually ever really happens.
So, it's bizarre to me that that's so easily accepted
and I think it's often because judgements are made
about a woman's lifestyle or past.
He was also able to explain away
the blood in the bathroom,
citing an accident that had happened
shortly before Charlotte disappeared.
Charlotte had a cut.
She had seen the minor injuries unit.
Now, the cut was on the upper right buttock,
and she claimed she had sat
on a light bulb.
And I don't know if that...
was ever proved to be anything other than what she said,
but she required, stitches, so it was quite a deep cut.
Despite their suspicions,
the police did not have enough in July 2013
to charge Johnny Miller with his fiancee's murder.
There was no smoking gun at that point.
There was no motive at that point.
There was... So they had very little to put to him.
With no body, and no definitive proof
a crime had been committed,
police resources were diverted to other cases.
In 2016, when Charlotte had been missing for over three years,
DS James Brannigan joined the major investigations team.
It was the first piece of work
I was given, back as a sergeant.
I think missing persons cases are so difficult,
and, you know, just to acknowledge
it is really difficult for the police as well
because there's no evidence at all.
There's no body, often there's no crime scene.
But it was at that point I started to do more work into it.
My attitude was people just don't vanish and disappear.
Something has happened.
A visit to Omagh made DS Brannigan
even more determined
to get to the bottom of Charlotte's disappearance.
Even years later,
you could see how much it was still impacting them.
These are the people you're... you're doing this for.
And not just Charlotte. They need the answers.
First of all, detectives needed to make sure
Charlotte hadn't turned up
living somewhere else in the last three years.
The police carried out extensive
proof of life inquiries,
credit card transactions, sightings, everything.
And there were supposedly a number of sightings.
One in Birmingham, one in Germany,
all these different areas.
There was some talk
that she may have been alive and living in Dublin.
That all had to be investigated to the nth degree.
Plus all these other Charlotte Murrays that appear
around the UK and Ireland, they have to be spoken to.
Who's that Charlotte? Is this our Charlotte?
There's thousands of inquiries,
thousands of requests off to councils, hospitals,
police forces, banks, telecoms.
Once satisfied that Charlotte was no longer alive,
the next thing police needed to identify was a motive.
If Johnny Miller had killed his fiancee,
why had he done it?
As detectives kept digging into Charlotte's final days,
they made a disturbing discovery.
That there was intelligence to say that there was...
a certain individual had naked images of Charlotte.
Two officers, all credit to 'em, went out to speak to this person
and he still had the phone
going back five years.
So, suddenly we had this phone with naked images of Charlotte,
which were taken on the 20th of October.
The 20th of October, 2012,
was just 11 days before Charlotte was believed
to have vanished.
Had Johnny Miller been aware of
the photos of his fiancee taken with another man?
Well, now the police have something
which they never had before: Motive.
What if Miller was so infuriated by those photographs
that he decided to kill her?
When detectives dived into Johnny Miller's computer,
they discovered that on the night of 31st October to 1st November,
he had been very, very busy.
Miller was online looking to sell the engagement ring.
When questioned, Miller tried to claim
he'd been sent the explicit images of Charlotte,
and as a result, had decided to end their engagement.
He was gonna say, "I saw the images.
I was trying to sell the engagement ring."
But there was an obvious flaw in his story.
You did not get the images till six o'clock.
So why are you trying to sell the engagement ring
at three o'clock in the morning?
MONCKTON-SMITH: The police found that Miller
had been accessing dating sites
just a couple of hours after Charlotte went missing.
It sounds like a really strange thing to do.
He wasn't worrying about
where she was because...
he knew exactly where she was.
They also found that Charlotte's
Facebook post
on the morning after her disappearance,
which said that she was taking off,
"I'm pissed off with life, I want a new one,"
had been sent from my IP address identical to the one
that Miller had been using,
searching dating sites that same day.
Cell site analysis also cast doubt
on the goodbye messages Charlotte had apparently sent
in the days after Halloween.
You can see when Charlotte went to Belfast
on the 30th of October, she went up for a job interview.
You can see her car and her phone going up to Belfast.
You can see her car and phone coming back down...
connecting to the cells as she came back down to Moy.
When she disappeared,
her phone didn't leave Moy.
So we believe it was Johnny
making these texts, closing her life down,
and texting her friend,
Michelle, to say, I'm taking time out
and I'll give you a shout at some point in the future.
So, Michelle then would stop looking for her.
Circumstantial evidence
was stacking up against Johnny Miller.
But there was still no smoking gun.
Would it be enough to persuade a jury
he was a callous killer?
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NARRATOR: On the 24th of October, 2017,
almost five years after Charlotte Murray
was last seen alive,
her fiance, 46-year-old Johnny Miller,
was charged with her murder.
The news was a bombshell
for the small community of Moy, County Tyrone,
where Miller and 34-year-old Charlotte had lived.
Shock was the big thing.
Because nobody expected it to be murder.
Missing, runaway,
probably thought all sorts of things,
but nobody expected it to be murder.
And I don't think anybody expected it to be Johnny.
THE Johnny...
in the village,
'cause he was very likeable, everybody knew him.
And he carried on living there,
mixed with the same people.
And probably felt quite sorry for him
because, you know, she's just cleared off
and left me with half the rent
and left me with her dog.
I do find that people are often very quick to...
believe what a man says about a woman
and to make assumptions about a woman
based on past behaviour or history,
lifestyle, anything like that.
I suppose that's partly because it is quite a huge cognitive leap
that a man that you know and you care about
could have a violent side.
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The trial begins at Dungannon Crown Court
on the 11th of September, 2019,
and Miller pleads
not guilty.
Journalist, Tanya Fowles,
attended every day of the trial,
as did Charlotte's grieving family,
including her identical twin, Denise.
Every time we were talking about Charlotte
and you look to your left,
you just swore she was sitting in the gallery.
She was so like her.
The atmosphere...
it was frightening at times.
You have the dock
and you have the gallery, where the families are,
and they're keeping them very much apart.
One side fighting for his innocence,
one side fighting for a verdict of guilty.
The prosecution argue, of course...
that the photographs,
the naked photographs,
are the motive that Miller has used.
And there was a marvellous phrase
used by the prosecution at one point said
"They were the last straw.
You were being shown as a cuckold."
Our main evidence was his statement
and the cell site information we had.
The fact that we could prove she's no longer alive
and she has not left the Moy.
She did not leave the Moy.
He's saying she left in a van.
He's saying she left to go to Belfast.
We can prove she never left.
And her phone never left Moy.
What he was doing on the 31st on his computer,
we can see image by image
of a screenshot of his machine of what he's doing.
He's up all night working on his computer.
He's trying to sell the engagement ring.
Fascinatingly, when she disappeared, 2012,
Miller had bought an axe and a saw
as what he said was a Christmas present for his father.
He bought items; carpet cleaner
and some tools.
Over four days on the stand,
chef Johnny Miller
tried to explain away all of the inconsistencies
in his stories.
He was completely passive in the dock.
He never showed any stress.
He was completely relaxed in the witness box.
He was so... arm up on the back of the chair,
very casual, you know.
"I'm here to help." Very, very charming.
Very, 'I'm so likeable.'
Johnny Miller, we know, was an incredibly misogynistic
and controlling
predatory man,
but he was also...
quite charming when he wanted to be,
and he could be friendly and he could draw people to him.
On the 7th of October, 2019,
the jury retired to consider its verdict.
I'll never forget it, 'cause you're sitting waiting.
You can't do anything. But...
you know, you hardly sleep that night.
You're going over everything.
FOWLES: 45 minutes into the deliberation the next day,
his lawyer came running out
and said, (SOFTLY) "Johnny, come on, verdict."
Johnny's out having a smoke, flicks the cigarette,
very calm. Very, very calm.
But there was something about his lawyer's face
that made me think, "Hey, this is too quick."
And you're looking across to the family.
They're all in tears at this point.
In the dock, Miller stood
ready to hear his fate.
"How do you find the defendant
on the charge of murder?"
And they went, "Guilty."
And he drops.
He just (GASPS) and drops into the seat.
His mother is in hysterics
and two of Charlotte's family just...
little soft clap.
It was highly charged.
The relief is... is unreal.
Years of work. You see the family, they're...
in tears, colleagues in tears,
and you see you've... put all this work in
to this for that family, and...
it's just such a relief.
Miller was given life with a minimum of 16 years.
Miller was then only 48,
which theoretically means he's eligible for parole
in his mid 60s.
In the wake of his conviction,
Charlotte's twin sister, Denise,
and the family demand
that he tell 'em what he did...
with Charlotte's body.
He steadfastly refused to do so.
They are a family grieving, they're trying to get closure,
they are struggling terribly.
and it's not going to be right until Charlotte's found.
And Charlotte's sister made a really emotional appeal.
"Do the right thing, do the honourable thing,
tell us where she is."
And that's the way they're living at the minute.
Johnny Miller had, however, given detectives
a clue they hoped
might lead to Charlotte's remains.
We are about six miles outside Moy
in a old quarry,
flooded quarry, in Benburb,
which is just next to Benburb Priory.
He had said in his evidence that he was down here
at half six the morning after she disappeared.
It's extremely isolated.
We first searched the ground area.
It was, I believe, 2018.
We were searching the... the bank
of the quarry and we had divers in the quarry.
It's quite murky down there,
so they couldn't see much.
So we then had sonar,
a boat in with sonar.
So, they mapped out the whole bottom of the quarry,
but the dog gave the biggest indication up on the bank
of human remains.
With strong signs that a body
may have been disposed of at the quarry,
the decision was made to drain it.
And it was...
It was a long, long wait watching it go down,
'cause we couldn't search till it was drained.
There were bones found,
a lot of bones, but all animal bones,
where people had discarded animals in here.
It was tense because the family were here a lot of time as well.
And we really were hopeful that
her remains could be located here to give the family some closure
from that side of it. They had the conviction,
but they still haven't that... they don't have Charlotte.
After days of determined searching,
there was no resolution for Charlotte's loving family.
Years later, the search for Charlotte continues,
and those at the very top of Northern Ireland's government
have dedicated themselves
to the campaign for justice.
Charlotte's body has never been found.
To lose a loved one in such...
violent circumstances, is in itself
incredibly distressing.
But to have that pain and anguish compounded by the fact
that you can never have a memorial for that person,
to not have the ability to be able to bury their loved one,
to not have the ability to...
to take flowers on a birthday
or to visit the graveside at Christmas,
it's incredibly distressing for families.
In the aftermath of Johnny Miller's conviction,
Charlotte's family is campaigning
for new legislation that would force killers like him
to reveal where they've concealed their victim's body.
The families came to me here with a proposal for Charlotte's Law.
So we worked with the families very closely
and looked at how at each stage of the process
we would be able to incentivise
for the perpetrator to actually...
tell where the body was
and give the families that... that comfort.
And there's a sort of sliding scale that we are putting in place
that the earlier that information is released to the families,
the more significant the consideration will be
for the person in sentencing.
You have to understand this family's pain.
And if the only way to do that is to say to him,
"Your sentence might be somewhat reduced."
The family are willing to accept that.
By denying his guilt
and refusing to reveal where Charlotte's body can be found,
Johnny Miller has denied his victim's family
the opportunity to let their beloved daughter and sister
rest in peace.
By ending his fiancee's young life,
then laying a trail of deception,
Miller has proven himself to be
one of the Britain's most evil killers.
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