On 16 August 1978, a man strolled into a house in eaton county,
Michigan, and violently attacked two children in their family home.
He sliced the throat of 13-year-old Randy Gilbert
after assaulting Randy's 14-year-old sister, Lisa.
I've had a fear from day one, and still do,
that he'll come back and he'll try to find us.
The assailant was 23-year-old Don Miller,
a serial murderer who'd killed his fourth victim
just two days before the attack on Lisa Gilbert.
After he was done raping her,
Don Miller sat on her back and took a small belt
that she'd on her shorts
and wrapped it around her throat and began to strangle her.
Amazingly both Lisa and Randy managed to survive
at the hands of the killer,
who was a respected member of the local church.
It never leaves you.
I will never forget this case.
I think a lot of people in east Lansing community
never forget this case either.
Don Miller, a supposedly heavenly man with a hellish lust for blood,
had been revealed as one of the world's most evil killers.
In July 1979, 24-year-old Don Miller
led investigators to the bodies of three of the four women he'd killed.
Detectives were only just beginning to learn about his murderous career.
The true extent of Miller's crimes was only revealed
after the supposed Christian was arrested for the attempted murder
of 13-year-old Randy Gilbert and the rape and attempted murder
of Randy's 14-year-old sister, Lisa.
My true belief is,
if you are a true Christian like he explains that he is,
he would've never even thought of doing what he did.
To me that is not a true Christian,
and I don't care how long you've gone to church,
what you've done in church,
you do not commit the crimes like he committed and be a Christian.
My sister and I don't even really talk about it to each other.
It's just something -
I know what happened to her, she knows what happened to me.
I don't deal with it very well.
I carry such a guilt of this whole thing that, you know,
if I had been home where I was supposed to be,
none of this may have happened.
Miller's story fascinates former local police officer
turned author rod sadler,
who's written a book all about the quiet but deadly killer.
Don Miller took the lives of four women.
Don Miller raped a 14-year-old girl
and then tried to strangle her and her brother.
Don Miller is a psychopath.
The story of this Saint turned sinner
begins in east Lansing, Michigan.
Don Miller was born in December 1954.
As the oldest of three siblings,
he was raised by his church-going parents
to be an upright, highly principled young man.
There isn't anything in his childhood.
He doesn't appear to experience any abuse, any neglect,
anything like that,
that we very commonly see in the backgrounds of serial killers.
He seems to be a god-fearing Christian.
He seems to be somebody who has that moral high ground.
After graduating high school,
Miller began studying at Michigan state university
in the Autumn of 1973,
where he would eventually end up taking a course in criminal justice.
At a time of fashion flamboyance,
Miller was a square peg in a round hole.
There were no t-shirts and jeans and free love and...
He always wore a jacket and tie.
He looked incredibly upright, looked like a choir boy.
His hair was slicked back.
He carried a trombone with him everywhere that he went
because he was in the band, and that made him unusual,
and that made him noticeable
because he was actually a very non-noticeable type of a person.
He also didn't really have many close friends.
His sister appeared to be his closest friend.
So he was one of those kids who was really not part of the crowd.
He was excluded, in a way, from his peer group.
Despite his social awkwardness,
by the winter of 1976, 21-year-old Miller was engaged
to fellow msu student and churchgoer Martha sue young.
She was a very outgoing person,
and Don Miller was essentially a homebody,
and the only place that Don Miller ever took Martha sue young
would be to prayer groups through the church that they attended.
But during the holidays,
19-year-old Martha decided to end the engagement,
much to Miller's annoyance.
He feels let down, he feels spurned, he feels rejected,
and he doesn't take rejection well.
But nevertheless, he pleads with her for another chance,
and on new year's Eve 1976 he persuades her to let him go with her
to a babysitting job she's got that night.
And after they finished babysitting,
Don Miller took Martha sue young back to his house
and they watched a movie, and they had some pizza and pop,
and Don said he was gonna take Martha sue young home
and they left at about 10:30 or 11:00,
and that was the last time
that Martha sue young was ever seen alive.
Martha's desperately worried parents called the police.
Detective Richard westgate was assigned the case.
We received a call at east Lansing police department
that Martha sue young supposedly never arrived
back at her house in east Lansing,
by the boyfriend's father, Eugene Miller,
after Martha sue young's mother, sue young, had called the Miller
house wanting to know where her daughter, Martha sue young, is.
We became involved in that case right after that.
From our conversations with Martha sue's mother,
she felt Don was a very controlling person,
controlling to the point that Martha sue young
wanted to not be engaged anymore.
Richard's next port of call was Martha's former partner
and the last person to see her before she vanished.
Don Miller stated that he had dropped Martha sue young off
at her porch step and that she sat down on the porch step
in very, very freezing, frigid temperatures, and he drove home.
He shows not a flicker of guilt, remorse, concern.
"No, no. I had nothing to do with it."
It perfectly encapsulates, for me, that wonderful phrase,
'a wolf in sheep's clothing'.
He looked, for all the world, like a choir boy, but he wasn't.
Martha sue young would never return home.
The police didn't know it yet,
but Martha had been strangled to death by her former fiance
and fellow church member Don Miller.
While they suspected that Don Miller was responsible
for her disappearance.
They had no proof of that.
They had some indicators that he was a suspect.
They had found some blood in his vehicle
on the morning that she was reported missing, January 1, 1977.
He was never able to be prosecuted on the disappearance
of Martha sue young, because we had no body.
We did not find a body.
They have this missing woman and they know that in many cases
they need to look at the ex-partner or the partner,
who is very often something to do with that.
But there was no evidence.
Martha was just missing.
It was very frustrating to the point
that we were not able to get any straight evidence
or deem evidence worthy enough to bring prosecution.
So it was very frustrating.
Almost ten months later, in thick woodland,
two hunters made a discovery -
the clothes that Martha sue young was wearing
on the night of her disappearance.
Martha sue young's bra was inside of her sweater.
Her sweater was inside of her coat.
Her pants were laid at the base of her coat.
Her panties were inside of her pants.
Her shoes were at the base of her pant legs.
And it was as if she had laid down and simply disappeared.
Her purse was also there as well.
This is a really grim discovery,
because I think this confirms for her parents
and indeed for the police that she's most definitely come to harm.
Still without a body, the police were unable to arrest Don Miller,
even though he was the most obvious suspect in Martha's disappearance.
Miller killed Martha sue young
because she compromised his feelings of control over her.
She called off the engagement.
And for somebody like Miller, women don't get to do that.
For someone like Miller, the men call the shots.
The women are subservient, they are passive.
And this chimes very much with some of his religious beliefs.
So at this point he changes the project,
so he stopped trying to control her
by keeping her in a relationship with him,
and instead he switches to controlling her
by destroying her for leaving it.
Don Miller had got away with murder.
Over the next 19 months the Evangelical killer would claim
the lives of another three women,
before he turned his lethal attention towards two innocent children.
By the summer of 1978,
23-year-old Don Miller had killed four women
in Lansing, Michigan, but the police were unaware.
Miller was about to strike again, this time on canal road,
at the home of teenage siblings Randy and Lisa Gilbert,
whose parents were at work.
It was during the summer, and I don't remember what he did,
but Randy was grounded,
and every morning we would have to call my stepmom
when we got up, and at 3:00 in the afternoon,
to check in with her, make sure everything was ok.
And I was ready to call Donna for the afternoon
and I wanted him right beside me,
because I didn't wanna lie and say, "yeah, he's here,"
and then her want to talk to him and he's not here.
He liked to fish in the pond behind the house
and hang out with some friends,
so I went outside to call him, and then when I came back around
the front of the house to go back inside,
which was through the garage, there was a car parked in the driveway.
The Gilberts house had only recently been built,
and 14-year-old Lisa assumed the driver
was one of the construction workers who regularly came to make repairs.
So I proceeded to walk into the back door
and this guy was in my house.
So he walked out the house and he says, "is your dad home?"
I didn't think anything of it, and I said,
"no, he's working right now.
He won't be home till 6:00 or 6:30."
And he's like, "can I get a number just that I can talk to him?"
And I said, "yeah, sure."
So I went over to a cupboard to get a paper and pencil,
not knowing that he walked in behind me,
and then he proceeded to pull out a knife and hold it to my throat,
and he told me not to speak and he said, "don't scream or don't yell."
The petrified 14-year-old had no option
but to comply with the stranger.
Don Miller was on the verge of claiming a fifth victim.
I didn't wanna get hurt,
so I just did what he asked me to do.
I'm not saying I wasn't smart enough to figure out ways to get out,
but at that age that's the last thing you're thinking about.
Then he proceeded to take me into my parents' bedroom
and told me to face down on the floor, so I did.
And he went into the closet and was gathering up things.
So he stuffed knee-highs in my mouth and put a tie around it
and then tied my arms behind my back and then tied my ankles.
And there he proceeded to rape me and then he took the belt
that was in my shorts and proceeded to start strangling me with it.
Well, the belt was wore and it broke.
After that, he just proceeded to choke me with his hands.
And then I was blacking out,
I didn't see anything, it was like pitch-black,
so I know I was ready to black out, and that's when Randy walked in.
August 16, 1978, was a normal summer day for us.
We were on summer break from school.
I was out playing, just out doing the things that, you know,
a 13-year-old boy would do.
That day kind of changed, though,
when out of the blue something told me to go home.
And I just stopped what I was doing and went home.
When Randy entered the family home, everything was not as it seemed.
It was really quiet.
I didn't know where my sister was.
I saw a strange man come out of my father's bedroom
and I just stopped and kind of looked at him
and he locked eyes with me and said, "hi, how you doing?"
I said 'hi' back.
And he just walked around me then he quickly grabbed me from behind
and put a knife to my throat.
And he said, "i'm not gonna hurt you."
And at that point, i'm obviously confused and scared.
Then he asked me where my room was.
Said, "my room's upstairs,"
and he says something to the fact of, "take me to it."
With a knife to the throat of the 13-year-old,
Miller led Randy up the stairs and into the teenager's bedroom.
And he put me down on the floor and he sat on my back
with my left arm behind my back, he was holding me there.
And at that point, scared as I was, I started to scramble a little bit,
as much as I could, but I really couldn't move.
He had me in a good hold.
The older Miller overpowered the youngster
and began to try and end Randy's life.
That's when he started slicing my throat with the knife.
Once I saw a little bit of blood, I kind of panicked,
fought back a little bit more.
Somehow I was able to grab the knife out of his hand
with my free hand, and threw it across the room.
And at that point, I recall him strangling me with his hands.
Randy blacked out and was helpless to stop Miller's brutal attack.
I was unconscious so there was no fighting back.
There's nothing I could do.
I mean, his intent was to kill me obviously.
But once I passed out's the time that he recovered the knife
that I was able to throw, stabbed me twice in the chest,
punctured a lung and scratched my heart, they say,
it was that close to my heart.
There's not a whole lot I really could do.
I couldn't get away, couldn't run.
And he left me for dead, so.
Downstairs, Randy's sister Lisa had miraculously regained consciousness
and managed to find her way into her parents' bathroom.
They had a little space underneath the bottom shelf
that they put their dirty laundry in, and I'm like,
"oh, I could sneak in here and hide and he won't find me."
So I crawled under there.
Don't ask me how my-size of my body could fit into a small area,
but I made it.
Then as I'm in there I'm realising, "you can get out.
You can get out and get some help.
What are you doing sitting - laying in here?"
Summoning up the courage to look for help,
Lisa managed to loosen her shackles and make a run for it.
My ankles became untied,
but my hands were still tied behind my back
and the tie had fallen from around my mouth.
So when I got to the front door I unlocked the front door
with my hands behind my back
and proceeded to basically run out in the street with no clothes on.
When I ran to the first car,
he just slowed down and then he just went around me, and I'm like,
"I'll be damned if the next one's gonna get past me."
So when it got closer, I jumped in front of it.
He stopped and then I went onto his side of the truck, screaming,
"please help my brother. Please help my brother.
Somebody's inside trying to kill my brother."
The driver pulled over and headed towards the house
to confront the attacker, who'd left Randy for dead.
Upstairs, the 13-year-old had somehow survived the vicious attack
and was lying in a pool of blood on his bedroom floor.
And the next thing I realise is, I woke up and I'm covered in blood.
I ran downstairs and I was going to the front door of the house,
which was near the bottom of the stairs.
And I threw open the front door to get out of the house.
I saw that car that I saw earlier in the driveway
tearing out of the yard out onto the road and taking off.
Miller had evaded the kindly driver who'd stopped to help Lisa,
but not before the man had memorised his licence plate.
The police came, the ambulance came,
and then the last thing I remember was getting in the ambulance upset,
you know, saying, "is my brother gonna die?
Is my brother gonna die? Is my brother gonna die?"
This whole time I didn't see my sister, I didn't hear my sister.
I had no clue where she even was.
But once I got into the ambulance, I heard her crying.
I didn't know what happened to her at this point,
but I knew we were both in a safe place.
And he kind of lifted up off the gurney and said, "sis, I'm ok.
We're going to the hospital. I'm ok,"
and I said, "alright."
So then I sat right next to him until we got to the hospital.
Lisa and Randy Gilbert's lives would never be the same again.
But ultimately Don Miller had failed in his attempt
to kill for a fifth time.
The attack on the Gilbert children was so different
from the previous attacks that he'd made,
it tells us how emboldened he was, how confident he was.
He felt completely untouchable.
He's killed multiple people at this point in time,
and he hasn't got caught.
There have been no consequences.
So he feels that he can do whatever he likes now.
Miller was on the run, while Lisa and Randy were still coming to terms
with what had happened at their home on canal road.
I didn't find out till later,
after we were in the hospital,
that she had also been strangled and she was raped.
I didn't quite understand that, as a 13-year-old boy,
what all that really meant at that time,
but I'm thankful that she's still with us.
I feel like if... if I hadn't have come home like I did,
I don't know what woulda happened to her.
I believe that my brother came in just at the perfect timing,
because if not I would have been gone,
and if it wasn't for me getting out, we both would have been gone.
Don Miller had left behind two survivors,
and his licence plate number had been recorded.
The game was seemingly up,
but first the police needed to track him down before he could kill again.
On 16 August 1978, 23-year-old Don Miller had attempted to murder
two teenagers at their home in eaton county, Michigan.
Before fleeing the scene, Miller's licence plate number
had been taken and passed onto the police.
The east Lansing police department were familiar with Don Miller
because he was obviously the suspect in Martha sue young's disappearance.
They knew where he worked, they knew where his parents lived,
and they knew where his new girlfriend lived.
Detective Richard westgate had worked on the Martha sue young case
since her disappearance on new year's day 1977.
He had always suspected Miller of foul play but could never prove it.
The licence plate number was put out.
As soon as I heard that it was Don Miller's car,
I went along with other investigators
to Don Miller's new girlfriend's house.
Basically just waited, and then I saw his car pull up.
I pulled my car behind him, ordered him out of the car at gunpoint,
and his reaction was,
"what's going on? I've just been shopping.
Why are you doing this?"
And other officers then came to assist.
We put him in handcuffs and secured him
to the east Lansing police department.
Miller was interrogated about the attack on Lisa and Randy Gilbert.
Detective norm Kelly interviewed him and confronted him
with the fact that witnesses had gotten his licence plate number,
had picked him out of a photo line-up,
had described him to a t, and yet Miller maintained that he
didn't know how that could possibly be, because he wasn't involved.
The information gathered by witnesses was enough for detectives
to arrest Miller, much to the relief of 14-year-old Lisa.
I don't quite remember when I was told, but when I was,
I was happy that he was caught and I'm like,
"are you sure you got the right one? Are you sure you got the right guy?
Are you sure?"
Detectives not only questioned Miller about the attack
on the Gilberts and the disappearance of Martha sue young.
They also quizzed him about three other crimes that had taken place
in the Lansing area over the previous two months.
27-year-old marita choquette had vanished on 15 June 1978.
She was taking the trash out,
and she bantered back and forth jokingly with her neighbour,
and that was the last she was ever seen.
Marita choquette's vehicle was found the next morning
on the Michigan state university campus,
but it wasn't parked in its usual position.
And when her boss arrived at work, her boss thought,
"well, she must be here early,"
and as she began to check around,
she realised that marita was not there.
Police didn't have any reason to link Miller to marita at the time,
but they knew for sure that she had been murdered.
It was about two weeks later when marita's body
was discovered by a farmer,
about 10 miles from the Michigan state university campus.
And her body appeared to be positioned,
so it was as if she had been standing up
and she'd fallen back,
because her feet were tucked underneath her.
And also her hands had been severed, and they were laying at her side.
Detectives interrogated Miller about another woman -
21-year-old Wendy bush - who had disappeared on the same day
that marita's body had been discovered, 27 June 1978.
The following day,
Wendy was supposed to show up for work at one of the cafes on campus,
and when she didn't show up, her supervisor became concerned
and they checked her dorm and discovered
that all of her belongings were there.
And so she was reported as a missing person.
Wendy bush, it was said,
was last seen with a tall white man on campus.
Well, Miller wasn't a very tall man,
so there was really nothing to connect him
with the disappearance of Wendy bush, either.
It was a mystery.
Miller denied knowing anything about Wendy bush,
but detectives were certain he was responsible
for the disappearance of another woman -
30-year-old kristine Stuart.
Kristine had disappeared on 14 August,
just two days before Miller had attacked the Gilberts.
Kristine Stuart was a teacher at Lansing's everette high school.
She was adored by her students.
She was a very well-known, very well-liked teacher.
She was married to a contractor, and they lived in the east Lansing area.
She and her husband got along very well.
She would not disappear for any reason at all,
so it was unlike kris Stuart to just vanish.
Investigators had been searching for kristine for the past two days.
We secured every police officer available
in the area of east Lansing.
We used the helicopter to try to see
if there was a body or anything we could see.
We had bike patrols.
We had all the cars that were out.
We did everything we could possibly to see if she was
just missing in the area, and we did not locate her.
Fortunately for detectives,
a witness had seen kristine's abduction firsthand
and gave a statement to the police.
She would later pick out Miller's photo in an identity parade.
There was a woman who was travelling north on coolidge,
and a car turned in front of her and she saw a man that was wrestling
basically with a woman, trying to force her into a vehicle.
And she saw the man thrust a knife three times
down into the car and was able to describe blood
dripping off of the knife as Don Miller stabbed kristine Stuart.
At that point, you would have thought,
had Donald Miller been as clever as he thought he was,
he would have stopped.
He would have simply said,
"well, there's nothing to connect me with any of these disappearances.
There's nothing to connect me with the one body they've got.
I won't do anything." But he didn't.
Just two days after Miller had been seen stabbing kristine,
he'd attacked Lisa and Randy Gilbert.
He was now in custody but refusing to admit to any of the attacks.
Nonetheless, a grand jury was impanelled,
and Miller was charged with the crimes
that detectives could link him to.
That grand jury indicted Don Miller in two of the disappearances -
one for the disappearance of Martha sue young
and the disappearance of kristine Stuart.
And he was indicted for second-degree murder in those cases.
The prosecuting attorney's office felt they could prove
second-degree murder.
There's no way, without a body, they could prove premeditation.
And so he was indicted for two of the disappearances
and eventually charged in those murders.
Miller would first stand trial for the horrific attack on the Gilberts.
The two children that he had left callously for dead
would have to look into the eyes of the killer one last time.
In may 1979 Don Miller was on trial in berrien county, Michigan.
The 24-year-old was charged with the rape and attempted murder
of Lisa Gilbert and the attempted murder of her brother, Randy.
Miller was a devout Christian, but his story was far from holy.
During his trial, Don Miller claimed that he only went
into the Gilbert home to rid the home of demons.
He used a demon defence, not that he was possessed,
but that there was some sort of an occult inside the home
and that he went in to rescue the people in there.
Lisa and Randy both testified in the courtroom
and had to face their attacker for the first time since their ordeal.
I remember looking at him and they had him - he was wearing a suit.
I remember thinking, as an angry teenage boy is,
"why's he get to wear a suit?
Why's he not in jail clothes?"
You know... I had to see him, though.
I had to testify that he was the one, and I clearly knew he was.
And it was really difficult for my sister as well.
I was scared.
I was nervous knowing
that I was in the same room as him and that I was facing him.
A lot of things were kept hush-hush, you know, 'cause we were young.
They didn't want to hurt us anymore
than what we were already going through.
On 9 may 1979, Don Miller was found guilty
on all three rape and attempted murder charges.
He was sentenced to 30-50 years in prison.
He was due in court again soon after to answer second-degree murder
charges for his part in the disappearances of his former fiancee,
Martha sue young, and 30-year-old teacher kristine Stuart.
But while he was behind bars,
he suddenly appeared willing to talk about
the other crimes he'd committed.
The prison warden noticed that he was very withdrawn
and felt that possibly some regressive psychotherapy
could be used, or some hypnosis.
And in those regressive psychotherapy interviews,
Don Miller admitted to the murder of Martha sue young
and the murder of kristine Stuart
and the murder of Wendy bush and the murder of marita choquette.
During a search of Miller's home,
investigators had already uncovered some damning evidence
in the marita choquette case.
In a drawer in his room I found the handcuffs
that obviously he had used to handcuff marita choquette.
And he must not have had a key,
because that's why he severed the hands off.
So we found the handcuffs in the drawer in his room.
There were blood samples inside the handcuffs
which were traced back to marita choquette.
It certainly isn't enough for Miller at this point
to just kill his victim.
His victim is his possession -
he owns her and he's going to do what he wants to her.
And by severing her hands, by leaving her in this state,
he's essentially dehumanising her.
He's completely possessing and controlling her.
But Don Miller would never face a trial for murder.
In a bid to find closure for the families of his victims,
and as he was already facing 50 years in prison,
he was offered a deal by prosecutors.
Don Miller accepted a plea deal with the prosecuting attorney's office,
and in that plea deal,
he was allowed to plead to two counts of manslaughter,
and the original two counts of second-degree murder
would be dropped.
But in exchange for that plea, within a week,
he would have to lead authorities to the bodies
of the remaining missing three victims,
Martha sue young, Wendy bush and kristine Stuart.
In July 1979,
Miller led detectives to the remains of each of the women
he'd killed, one after the other -
beginning with his former fiancee and first victim, Martha sue young.
Martha sue young's body was found at a park in bath township,
north-east of Lansing, a park called priggooris park.
It had been 18 months or more since she had come up missing,
and it was basically a skeleton when she was discovered.
Wendy bush's body was the next to be found.
Miller told detectives he'd once gone canoeing with the 21-year-old.
He choked her to death in a parking lot at Michigan state university.
And then we went and found kris Stuart's remains in a ditch
in a farm field, and he pointed them out.
He didn't even get out of the car.
He just said, "her remains are right over there."
And I was walking with one of the prosecutors at the time
and actually discovered the remains
at our feet in a little water ditch.
So she had been there for quite a few days until we found her.
Miller said he'd run down kristine Stuart in his car
before strangling her to death,
because he was convinced she was Martha sue young.
Kristine was Miller's fourth and final victim.
Because of the plea deal, Don Miller,
who was already serving 30-50 years for the attack on the Gilberts,
was sentenced to ten additional years
for the manslaughter of Martha and kristine.
He's killed four young women, dumped their bodies,
done dreadful things, and yet he gets ten years.
Oh. Suppose everyone was thinking,
"well, he's already serving 30-50 years."
Well, it's not another ten at the end, it's ten concurrently,
so he's still only going to serve exactly the same as he did
for the rape and attempted murder of Lisa and Randy.
Don Miller could have been released by now,
but in 1994 he was given another 20-40 years on his sentence
because a homemade weapon was found in his cell.
I think it's important for the public to understand that
Don Miller is not in prison right now for murder
or for rape or for attempted murder.
Don Miller is only still in prison for
possessing a strangulation device, or a garotte, in his prison dorm.
This is clearly something that is significant
in terms of the murders that he committed,
because had he addressed all of those underlying factors,
which led to his offending,
he would have no need to have that kind of thing in his cell.
So the fact that it was there suggests to me
he's reliving these attacks,
he's revisiting them, he's enjoying that.
So obviously that's telling you right then and there
that he's not rehabilitated.
He's thinking about doing it again.
And he's still thinking about doing it again
if they allow him to get out.
Miller has been up for parole several times since his incarceration.
Leading the fight to keep him behind bars
is eaton county prosecutor Doug Lloyd.
The minute we receive notice that that individual's up for parole,
it's a process.
My office begins the process of preparing letters
to send to the parole board.
We begin gathering individuals who will send letters
and who will contact the parole board
to let them know that this individual should not be released.
I've already written a letter to the Michigan parole board.
This is something that never leaves you as an investigator.
This person killed four people, attempted to kill two more people,
a 14-year-old and a 13-year-old.
I know him better than anybody,
and I'm afraid if Don Miller is released he will kill again.
Despite his crimes, reports from prison suggest that Miller
is ready to be reintegrated into society.
Don Miller is a sociopath.
In reality, he plays the part that he knows he must play within prison.
And because of that, he places himself
in the ability to be viewed for parole every year,
which is why it's so important to the victims
that the parole board have that ability to say,
"you won't be reviewed for five years."
Because he's a serial killer.
That's what he was when he was out on the streets.
That's what he is in prison.
To me, the word 'serial killer' and 'parole'
should not even be in the same paragraph, or the same sentence,
for that matter.
So we sit here today, probably just as scared as I was back then,
that this monster could be walking the streets right now, soon.
In June 2021, Miller's latest bid for freedom failed.
Michigan state law dictates that the 66-year-old can apply for parole
every 12 months,
making it a constant battle for Doug and the Gilberts.
You know what amazes me is the fact that they both get up every day,
and they go about their lives,
and they both become productive members in our community,
because they'd have every right to not wanna be,
because they've been imprisoned by a serial killer
since that day in 1978.
We have to do this every year for the next nine years.
In the year 2031, he's... He's able to walk out of jail,
and his sentence is over and...
That's really tough to deal with right now.
Miller committed his crimes in his early 20s
and has spent the majority of his life behind bars.
But Lisa and Randy have also suffered a lifetime of pain,
caused by their horrendous ordeal in August 1978.
I have physical scars on my body
that I see every day that are reminders.
I have nightmares constantly.
I don't sleep well.
Without getting too emotional,
it's very difficult for me to this day to really think hard,
talk about what happened to her.
If I wasn't off goofing off, it may not have happened.
It probably wouldn't have happened.
Or if I was home, Don Miller would have seen both of us
and not just my sister and he would have kept on going.
So I feel that, you know, it's kind of my fault,
so I have to protect her.
I don't think I could ever speak to him face to face,
but if I could write to him, I'd write to him and tell him,
"may you rot in hell."
He has no remorse. He is not forgiving.
You can just see how he escalated,
and how he was going to kill a 14-year-old and a 13-year-old.
You know how he had already
killed his girlfriend
at the time and three other ladies.
He is a danger.
He is a threat, and he does not need to be released.
We may never know why Don Miller chose to end the life of four women.
He's never given an explanation for it.
What we do know is he left behind four grieving families
and ruined the lives of two children,
who are still affected by his murderous attack to this day.
The fact that a supposed staunch Christian
can stoop to such depravity
makes Don Miller one of the world's most evil killers.
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