1 00:00:01,523 --> 00:00:06,483 On 16 August 1978, a man strolled into a house in eaton county, 2 00:00:06,523 --> 00:00:11,003 Michigan, and violently attacked two children in their family home. 3 00:00:11,043 --> 00:00:14,563 He sliced the throat of 13-year-old Randy Gilbert 4 00:00:14,603 --> 00:00:18,163 after assaulting Randy's 14-year-old sister, Lisa. 5 00:00:18,203 --> 00:00:21,763 I've had a fear from day one, and still do, 6 00:00:21,803 --> 00:00:24,003 that he'll come back and he'll try to find us. 7 00:00:24,043 --> 00:00:27,443 The assailant was 23-year-old Don Miller, 8 00:00:27,483 --> 00:00:30,563 a serial murderer who'd killed his fourth victim 9 00:00:30,603 --> 00:00:33,963 just two days before the attack on Lisa Gilbert. 10 00:00:34,003 --> 00:00:36,003 After he was done raping her, 11 00:00:36,043 --> 00:00:39,563 Don Miller sat on her back and took a small belt 12 00:00:39,603 --> 00:00:41,403 that she'd on her shorts 13 00:00:41,443 --> 00:00:44,483 and wrapped it around her throat and began to strangle her. 14 00:00:44,523 --> 00:00:48,043 Amazingly both Lisa and Randy managed to survive 15 00:00:48,083 --> 00:00:49,643 at the hands of the killer, 16 00:00:49,683 --> 00:00:52,163 who was a respected member of the local church. 17 00:00:52,203 --> 00:00:54,123 It never leaves you. 18 00:00:54,163 --> 00:00:56,803 I will never forget this case. 19 00:00:56,843 --> 00:00:59,083 I think a lot of people in east Lansing community 20 00:00:59,123 --> 00:01:01,523 never forget this case either. 21 00:01:01,563 --> 00:01:07,363 Don Miller, a supposedly heavenly man with a hellish lust for blood, 22 00:01:07,403 --> 00:01:11,403 had been revealed as one of the world's most evil killers. 23 00:01:31,923 --> 00:01:36,643 In July 1979, 24-year-old Don Miller 24 00:01:36,683 --> 00:01:41,163 led investigators to the bodies of three of the four women he'd killed. 25 00:01:41,203 --> 00:01:46,163 Detectives were only just beginning to learn about his murderous career. 26 00:01:48,043 --> 00:01:50,803 The true extent of Miller's crimes was only revealed 27 00:01:50,843 --> 00:01:55,123 after the supposed Christian was arrested for the attempted murder 28 00:01:55,163 --> 00:01:59,163 of 13-year-old Randy Gilbert and the rape and attempted murder 29 00:01:59,203 --> 00:02:02,163 of Randy's 14-year-old sister, Lisa. 30 00:02:02,203 --> 00:02:05,483 My true belief is, 31 00:02:05,523 --> 00:02:10,403 if you are a true Christian like he explains that he is, 32 00:02:10,443 --> 00:02:14,763 he would've never even thought of doing what he did. 33 00:02:14,803 --> 00:02:18,163 To me that is not a true Christian, 34 00:02:18,203 --> 00:02:20,483 and I don't care how long you've gone to church, 35 00:02:20,523 --> 00:02:22,563 what you've done in church, 36 00:02:22,603 --> 00:02:27,563 you do not commit the crimes like he committed and be a Christian. 37 00:02:27,603 --> 00:02:31,323 My sister and I don't even really talk about it to each other. 38 00:02:31,363 --> 00:02:32,563 It's just something - 39 00:02:32,603 --> 00:02:35,323 I know what happened to her, she knows what happened to me. 40 00:02:35,363 --> 00:02:37,163 I don't deal with it very well. 41 00:02:40,363 --> 00:02:46,003 I carry such a guilt of this whole thing that, you know, 42 00:02:46,043 --> 00:02:50,163 if I had been home where I was supposed to be, 43 00:02:50,203 --> 00:02:52,603 none of this may have happened. 44 00:02:54,083 --> 00:02:57,443 Miller's story fascinates former local police officer 45 00:02:57,483 --> 00:02:59,883 turned author rod sadler, 46 00:02:59,923 --> 00:03:03,603 who's written a book all about the quiet but deadly killer. 47 00:03:05,243 --> 00:03:08,763 Don Miller took the lives of four women. 48 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:13,523 Don Miller raped a 14-year-old girl 49 00:03:13,563 --> 00:03:16,763 and then tried to strangle her and her brother. 50 00:03:18,403 --> 00:03:20,203 Don Miller is a psychopath. 51 00:03:23,843 --> 00:03:25,803 The story of this Saint turned sinner 52 00:03:25,843 --> 00:03:29,083 begins in east Lansing, Michigan. 53 00:03:29,123 --> 00:03:32,883 Don Miller was born in December 1954. 54 00:03:32,923 --> 00:03:35,123 As the oldest of three siblings, 55 00:03:35,163 --> 00:03:37,843 he was raised by his church-going parents 56 00:03:37,883 --> 00:03:41,083 to be an upright, highly principled young man. 57 00:03:41,123 --> 00:03:43,563 There isn't anything in his childhood. 58 00:03:43,603 --> 00:03:46,523 He doesn't appear to experience any abuse, any neglect, 59 00:03:46,563 --> 00:03:47,563 anything like that, 60 00:03:47,603 --> 00:03:51,123 that we very commonly see in the backgrounds of serial killers. 61 00:03:51,163 --> 00:03:53,203 He seems to be a god-fearing Christian. 62 00:03:53,243 --> 00:03:56,363 He seems to be somebody who has that moral high ground. 63 00:03:58,083 --> 00:04:00,523 After graduating high school, 64 00:04:00,563 --> 00:04:03,963 Miller began studying at Michigan state university 65 00:04:04,003 --> 00:04:06,763 in the Autumn of 1973, 66 00:04:06,803 --> 00:04:11,163 where he would eventually end up taking a course in criminal justice. 67 00:04:11,203 --> 00:04:14,203 At a time of fashion flamboyance, 68 00:04:14,243 --> 00:04:17,323 Miller was a square peg in a round hole. 69 00:04:17,363 --> 00:04:22,163 There were no t-shirts and jeans and free love and... 70 00:04:22,203 --> 00:04:24,283 He always wore a jacket and tie. 71 00:04:24,323 --> 00:04:27,083 He looked incredibly upright, looked like a choir boy. 72 00:04:27,123 --> 00:04:28,963 His hair was slicked back. 73 00:04:29,003 --> 00:04:31,363 He carried a trombone with him everywhere that he went 74 00:04:31,403 --> 00:04:35,003 because he was in the band, and that made him unusual, 75 00:04:35,043 --> 00:04:36,803 and that made him noticeable 76 00:04:36,843 --> 00:04:42,683 because he was actually a very non-noticeable type of a person. 77 00:04:43,763 --> 00:04:46,363 He also didn't really have many close friends. 78 00:04:46,403 --> 00:04:49,443 His sister appeared to be his closest friend. 79 00:04:49,483 --> 00:04:55,763 So he was one of those kids who was really not part of the crowd. 80 00:04:55,803 --> 00:04:59,443 He was excluded, in a way, from his peer group. 81 00:04:59,483 --> 00:05:02,443 Despite his social awkwardness, 82 00:05:02,483 --> 00:05:06,963 by the winter of 1976, 21-year-old Miller was engaged 83 00:05:07,003 --> 00:05:11,443 to fellow msu student and churchgoer Martha sue young. 84 00:05:12,483 --> 00:05:15,003 She was a very outgoing person, 85 00:05:15,043 --> 00:05:18,203 and Don Miller was essentially a homebody, 86 00:05:18,243 --> 00:05:21,843 and the only place that Don Miller ever took Martha sue young 87 00:05:21,883 --> 00:05:26,403 would be to prayer groups through the church that they attended. 88 00:05:26,443 --> 00:05:28,243 But during the holidays, 89 00:05:28,283 --> 00:05:32,123 19-year-old Martha decided to end the engagement, 90 00:05:32,163 --> 00:05:34,643 much to Miller's annoyance. 91 00:05:34,683 --> 00:05:41,283 He feels let down, he feels spurned, he feels rejected, 92 00:05:41,323 --> 00:05:43,323 and he doesn't take rejection well. 93 00:05:44,803 --> 00:05:49,403 But nevertheless, he pleads with her for another chance, 94 00:05:49,443 --> 00:05:55,883 and on new year's Eve 1976 he persuades her to let him go with her 95 00:05:55,923 --> 00:05:59,163 to a babysitting job she's got that night. 96 00:06:00,643 --> 00:06:03,763 And after they finished babysitting, 97 00:06:03,803 --> 00:06:06,843 Don Miller took Martha sue young back to his house 98 00:06:06,883 --> 00:06:10,923 and they watched a movie, and they had some pizza and pop, 99 00:06:10,963 --> 00:06:14,843 and Don said he was gonna take Martha sue young home 100 00:06:14,883 --> 00:06:18,243 and they left at about 10:30 or 11:00, 101 00:06:18,283 --> 00:06:20,323 and that was the last time 102 00:06:20,363 --> 00:06:22,683 that Martha sue young was ever seen alive. 103 00:06:28,243 --> 00:06:31,803 Martha's desperately worried parents called the police. 104 00:06:31,843 --> 00:06:34,963 Detective Richard westgate was assigned the case. 105 00:06:36,403 --> 00:06:38,643 We received a call at east Lansing police department 106 00:06:38,683 --> 00:06:44,043 that Martha sue young supposedly never arrived 107 00:06:44,083 --> 00:06:46,683 back at her house in east Lansing, 108 00:06:46,723 --> 00:06:52,163 by the boyfriend's father, Eugene Miller, 109 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:58,403 after Martha sue young's mother, sue young, had called the Miller 110 00:06:58,443 --> 00:07:02,483 house wanting to know where her daughter, Martha sue young, is. 111 00:07:02,523 --> 00:07:05,483 We became involved in that case right after that. 112 00:07:05,523 --> 00:07:09,963 From our conversations with Martha sue's mother, 113 00:07:10,003 --> 00:07:13,443 she felt Don was a very controlling person, 114 00:07:13,483 --> 00:07:17,003 controlling to the point that Martha sue young 115 00:07:17,043 --> 00:07:20,883 wanted to not be engaged anymore. 116 00:07:22,763 --> 00:07:26,523 Richard's next port of call was Martha's former partner 117 00:07:26,563 --> 00:07:30,083 and the last person to see her before she vanished. 118 00:07:30,123 --> 00:07:34,003 Don Miller stated that he had dropped Martha sue young off 119 00:07:34,043 --> 00:07:38,323 at her porch step and that she sat down on the porch step 120 00:07:38,363 --> 00:07:45,003 in very, very freezing, frigid temperatures, and he drove home. 121 00:07:47,243 --> 00:07:53,683 He shows not a flicker of guilt, remorse, concern. 122 00:07:53,723 --> 00:07:56,523 "No, no. I had nothing to do with it." 123 00:07:56,563 --> 00:08:01,763 It perfectly encapsulates, for me, that wonderful phrase, 124 00:08:01,803 --> 00:08:03,603 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'. 125 00:08:04,763 --> 00:08:09,323 He looked, for all the world, like a choir boy, but he wasn't. 126 00:08:09,363 --> 00:08:13,403 Martha sue young would never return home. 127 00:08:13,443 --> 00:08:15,403 The police didn't know it yet, 128 00:08:15,443 --> 00:08:19,123 but Martha had been strangled to death by her former fiance 129 00:08:19,163 --> 00:08:21,803 and fellow church member Don Miller. 130 00:08:21,843 --> 00:08:25,123 While they suspected that Don Miller was responsible 131 00:08:25,163 --> 00:08:26,723 for her disappearance. 132 00:08:26,763 --> 00:08:28,483 They had no proof of that. 133 00:08:28,523 --> 00:08:32,283 They had some indicators that he was a suspect. 134 00:08:32,323 --> 00:08:35,323 They had found some blood in his vehicle 135 00:08:35,363 --> 00:08:40,603 on the morning that she was reported missing, January 1, 1977. 136 00:08:41,603 --> 00:08:45,123 He was never able to be prosecuted on the disappearance 137 00:08:45,163 --> 00:08:48,323 of Martha sue young, because we had no body. 138 00:08:48,363 --> 00:08:50,763 We did not find a body. 139 00:08:52,883 --> 00:08:57,123 They have this missing woman and they know that in many cases 140 00:08:57,163 --> 00:08:59,883 they need to look at the ex-partner or the partner, 141 00:08:59,923 --> 00:09:02,163 who is very often something to do with that. 142 00:09:02,203 --> 00:09:04,123 But there was no evidence. 143 00:09:04,163 --> 00:09:06,283 Martha was just missing. 144 00:09:06,323 --> 00:09:08,003 It was very frustrating to the point 145 00:09:08,043 --> 00:09:12,123 that we were not able to get any straight evidence 146 00:09:12,163 --> 00:09:16,163 or deem evidence worthy enough to bring prosecution. 147 00:09:16,203 --> 00:09:18,723 So it was very frustrating. 148 00:09:20,043 --> 00:09:23,483 Almost ten months later, in thick woodland, 149 00:09:23,523 --> 00:09:26,323 two hunters made a discovery - 150 00:09:26,363 --> 00:09:29,443 the clothes that Martha sue young was wearing 151 00:09:29,483 --> 00:09:31,443 on the night of her disappearance. 152 00:09:31,483 --> 00:09:35,603 Martha sue young's bra was inside of her sweater. 153 00:09:35,643 --> 00:09:38,123 Her sweater was inside of her coat. 154 00:09:38,163 --> 00:09:41,483 Her pants were laid at the base of her coat. 155 00:09:41,523 --> 00:09:44,443 Her panties were inside of her pants. 156 00:09:44,483 --> 00:09:46,803 Her shoes were at the base of her pant legs. 157 00:09:46,843 --> 00:09:50,403 And it was as if she had laid down and simply disappeared. 158 00:09:50,443 --> 00:09:53,283 Her purse was also there as well. 159 00:09:53,323 --> 00:09:55,683 This is a really grim discovery, 160 00:09:55,723 --> 00:09:58,443 because I think this confirms for her parents 161 00:09:58,483 --> 00:10:02,003 and indeed for the police that she's most definitely come to harm. 162 00:10:03,243 --> 00:10:08,083 Still without a body, the police were unable to arrest Don Miller, 163 00:10:08,123 --> 00:10:12,563 even though he was the most obvious suspect in Martha's disappearance. 164 00:10:14,203 --> 00:10:16,203 Miller killed Martha sue young 165 00:10:16,243 --> 00:10:20,403 because she compromised his feelings of control over her. 166 00:10:20,443 --> 00:10:22,683 She called off the engagement. 167 00:10:22,723 --> 00:10:26,323 And for somebody like Miller, women don't get to do that. 168 00:10:26,363 --> 00:10:28,963 For someone like Miller, the men call the shots. 169 00:10:29,003 --> 00:10:31,923 The women are subservient, they are passive. 170 00:10:31,963 --> 00:10:36,123 And this chimes very much with some of his religious beliefs. 171 00:10:36,163 --> 00:10:38,883 So at this point he changes the project, 172 00:10:38,923 --> 00:10:41,083 so he stopped trying to control her 173 00:10:41,123 --> 00:10:43,523 by keeping her in a relationship with him, 174 00:10:43,563 --> 00:10:46,563 and instead he switches to controlling her 175 00:10:46,603 --> 00:10:48,123 by destroying her for leaving it. 176 00:10:48,163 --> 00:10:51,443 Don Miller had got away with murder. 177 00:10:51,483 --> 00:10:55,683 Over the next 19 months the Evangelical killer would claim 178 00:10:55,723 --> 00:10:58,003 the lives of another three women, 179 00:10:58,043 --> 00:11:02,603 before he turned his lethal attention towards two innocent children. 180 00:11:05,083 --> 00:11:08,323 By the summer of 1978, 181 00:11:08,363 --> 00:11:11,003 23-year-old Don Miller had killed four women 182 00:11:11,043 --> 00:11:14,323 in Lansing, Michigan, but the police were unaware. 183 00:11:14,363 --> 00:11:18,163 Miller was about to strike again, this time on canal road, 184 00:11:18,203 --> 00:11:21,803 at the home of teenage siblings Randy and Lisa Gilbert, 185 00:11:21,843 --> 00:11:23,683 whose parents were at work. 186 00:11:23,723 --> 00:11:27,763 It was during the summer, and I don't remember what he did, 187 00:11:27,803 --> 00:11:29,363 but Randy was grounded, 188 00:11:29,403 --> 00:11:33,403 and every morning we would have to call my stepmom 189 00:11:33,443 --> 00:11:36,963 when we got up, and at 3:00 in the afternoon, 190 00:11:37,003 --> 00:11:40,683 to check in with her, make sure everything was ok. 191 00:11:40,723 --> 00:11:43,563 And I was ready to call Donna for the afternoon 192 00:11:43,603 --> 00:11:46,043 and I wanted him right beside me, 193 00:11:46,083 --> 00:11:50,083 because I didn't wanna lie and say, "yeah, he's here," 194 00:11:50,123 --> 00:11:52,483 and then her want to talk to him and he's not here. 195 00:11:52,523 --> 00:11:54,643 He liked to fish in the pond behind the house 196 00:11:54,683 --> 00:11:56,523 and hang out with some friends, 197 00:11:56,563 --> 00:12:01,643 so I went outside to call him, and then when I came back around 198 00:12:01,683 --> 00:12:04,363 the front of the house to go back inside, 199 00:12:04,403 --> 00:12:07,683 which was through the garage, there was a car parked in the driveway. 200 00:12:07,723 --> 00:12:10,963 The Gilberts house had only recently been built, 201 00:12:11,003 --> 00:12:13,723 and 14-year-old Lisa assumed the driver 202 00:12:13,763 --> 00:12:18,363 was one of the construction workers who regularly came to make repairs. 203 00:12:18,403 --> 00:12:21,203 So I proceeded to walk into the back door 204 00:12:21,243 --> 00:12:23,243 and this guy was in my house. 205 00:12:23,283 --> 00:12:27,563 So he walked out the house and he says, "is your dad home?" 206 00:12:27,603 --> 00:12:29,179 I didn't think anything of it, and I said, 207 00:12:29,203 --> 00:12:30,563 "no, he's working right now. 208 00:12:30,603 --> 00:12:32,643 He won't be home till 6:00 or 6:30." 209 00:12:32,683 --> 00:12:36,083 And he's like, "can I get a number just that I can talk to him?" 210 00:12:36,123 --> 00:12:37,323 And I said, "yeah, sure." 211 00:12:37,363 --> 00:12:41,763 So I went over to a cupboard to get a paper and pencil, 212 00:12:43,363 --> 00:12:46,243 not knowing that he walked in behind me, 213 00:12:46,283 --> 00:12:51,243 and then he proceeded to pull out a knife and hold it to my throat, 214 00:12:51,283 --> 00:12:57,603 and he told me not to speak and he said, "don't scream or don't yell." 215 00:12:58,723 --> 00:13:02,003 The petrified 14-year-old had no option 216 00:13:02,043 --> 00:13:04,483 but to comply with the stranger. 217 00:13:04,523 --> 00:13:08,843 Don Miller was on the verge of claiming a fifth victim. 218 00:13:08,883 --> 00:13:10,403 I didn't wanna get hurt, 219 00:13:10,443 --> 00:13:12,723 so I just did what he asked me to do. 220 00:13:12,763 --> 00:13:17,163 I'm not saying I wasn't smart enough to figure out ways to get out, 221 00:13:17,203 --> 00:13:20,403 but at that age that's the last thing you're thinking about. 222 00:13:22,363 --> 00:13:25,883 Then he proceeded to take me into my parents' bedroom 223 00:13:25,923 --> 00:13:29,923 and told me to face down on the floor, so I did. 224 00:13:29,963 --> 00:13:34,443 And he went into the closet and was gathering up things. 225 00:13:34,483 --> 00:13:38,923 So he stuffed knee-highs in my mouth and put a tie around it 226 00:13:40,123 --> 00:13:45,523 and then tied my arms behind my back and then tied my ankles. 227 00:13:45,563 --> 00:13:52,283 And there he proceeded to rape me and then he took the belt 228 00:13:52,323 --> 00:13:57,723 that was in my shorts and proceeded to start strangling me with it. 229 00:13:57,763 --> 00:14:01,803 Well, the belt was wore and it broke. 230 00:14:01,843 --> 00:14:06,403 After that, he just proceeded to choke me with his hands. 231 00:14:06,443 --> 00:14:09,643 And then I was blacking out, 232 00:14:09,683 --> 00:14:12,163 I didn't see anything, it was like pitch-black, 233 00:14:12,203 --> 00:14:16,043 so I know I was ready to black out, and that's when Randy walked in. 234 00:14:24,203 --> 00:14:29,803 August 16, 1978, was a normal summer day for us. 235 00:14:29,843 --> 00:14:32,443 We were on summer break from school. 236 00:14:32,483 --> 00:14:35,603 I was out playing, just out doing the things that, you know, 237 00:14:35,643 --> 00:14:37,043 a 13-year-old boy would do. 238 00:14:37,083 --> 00:14:39,243 That day kind of changed, though, 239 00:14:39,283 --> 00:14:44,123 when out of the blue something told me to go home. 240 00:14:44,163 --> 00:14:49,123 And I just stopped what I was doing and went home. 241 00:14:50,123 --> 00:14:54,963 When Randy entered the family home, everything was not as it seemed. 242 00:14:55,003 --> 00:14:56,883 It was really quiet. 243 00:14:56,923 --> 00:14:59,003 I didn't know where my sister was. 244 00:14:59,043 --> 00:15:02,963 I saw a strange man come out of my father's bedroom 245 00:15:03,003 --> 00:15:05,683 and I just stopped and kind of looked at him 246 00:15:05,723 --> 00:15:10,763 and he locked eyes with me and said, "hi, how you doing?" 247 00:15:10,803 --> 00:15:12,923 I said 'hi' back. 248 00:15:12,963 --> 00:15:19,963 And he just walked around me then he quickly grabbed me from behind 249 00:15:20,643 --> 00:15:22,043 and put a knife to my throat. 250 00:15:23,163 --> 00:15:25,723 And he said, "i'm not gonna hurt you." 251 00:15:27,523 --> 00:15:33,563 And at that point, i'm obviously confused and scared. 252 00:15:33,603 --> 00:15:35,923 Then he asked me where my room was. 253 00:15:35,963 --> 00:15:37,923 Said, "my room's upstairs," 254 00:15:37,963 --> 00:15:41,203 and he says something to the fact of, "take me to it." 255 00:15:43,043 --> 00:15:46,443 With a knife to the throat of the 13-year-old, 256 00:15:46,483 --> 00:15:51,723 Miller led Randy up the stairs and into the teenager's bedroom. 257 00:15:51,763 --> 00:15:56,723 And he put me down on the floor and he sat on my back 258 00:15:56,763 --> 00:16:00,643 with my left arm behind my back, he was holding me there. 259 00:16:00,683 --> 00:16:05,723 And at that point, scared as I was, I started to scramble a little bit, 260 00:16:05,763 --> 00:16:07,883 as much as I could, but I really couldn't move. 261 00:16:07,923 --> 00:16:09,443 He had me in a good hold. 262 00:16:09,483 --> 00:16:12,883 The older Miller overpowered the youngster 263 00:16:12,923 --> 00:16:15,923 and began to try and end Randy's life. 264 00:16:15,963 --> 00:16:19,723 That's when he started slicing my throat with the knife. 265 00:16:19,763 --> 00:16:23,283 Once I saw a little bit of blood, I kind of panicked, 266 00:16:23,323 --> 00:16:25,803 fought back a little bit more. 267 00:16:25,843 --> 00:16:29,163 Somehow I was able to grab the knife out of his hand 268 00:16:29,203 --> 00:16:33,203 with my free hand, and threw it across the room. 269 00:16:35,123 --> 00:16:39,723 And at that point, I recall him strangling me with his hands. 270 00:16:39,763 --> 00:16:45,083 Randy blacked out and was helpless to stop Miller's brutal attack. 271 00:16:45,123 --> 00:16:50,643 I was unconscious so there was no fighting back. 272 00:16:50,683 --> 00:16:52,403 There's nothing I could do. 273 00:16:52,443 --> 00:16:55,843 I mean, his intent was to kill me obviously. 274 00:16:58,003 --> 00:17:01,843 But once I passed out's the time that he recovered the knife 275 00:17:01,883 --> 00:17:06,483 that I was able to throw, stabbed me twice in the chest, 276 00:17:06,523 --> 00:17:10,203 punctured a lung and scratched my heart, they say, 277 00:17:10,243 --> 00:17:12,083 it was that close to my heart. 278 00:17:14,443 --> 00:17:17,403 There's not a whole lot I really could do. 279 00:17:17,443 --> 00:17:21,883 I couldn't get away, couldn't run. 280 00:17:23,763 --> 00:17:25,563 And he left me for dead, so. 281 00:17:29,803 --> 00:17:35,763 Downstairs, Randy's sister Lisa had miraculously regained consciousness 282 00:17:35,803 --> 00:17:39,283 and managed to find her way into her parents' bathroom. 283 00:17:39,323 --> 00:17:43,443 They had a little space underneath the bottom shelf 284 00:17:43,483 --> 00:17:44,979 that they put their dirty laundry in, and I'm like, 285 00:17:45,003 --> 00:17:48,563 "oh, I could sneak in here and hide and he won't find me." 286 00:17:50,243 --> 00:17:51,643 So I crawled under there. 287 00:17:51,683 --> 00:17:55,763 Don't ask me how my-size of my body could fit into a small area, 288 00:17:55,803 --> 00:17:56,803 but I made it. 289 00:17:58,043 --> 00:18:02,563 Then as I'm in there I'm realising, "you can get out. 290 00:18:02,603 --> 00:18:04,123 You can get out and get some help. 291 00:18:04,163 --> 00:18:06,363 What are you doing sitting - laying in here?" 292 00:18:06,403 --> 00:18:09,203 Summoning up the courage to look for help, 293 00:18:09,243 --> 00:18:13,283 Lisa managed to loosen her shackles and make a run for it. 294 00:18:14,323 --> 00:18:16,483 My ankles became untied, 295 00:18:16,523 --> 00:18:18,963 but my hands were still tied behind my back 296 00:18:19,003 --> 00:18:22,283 and the tie had fallen from around my mouth. 297 00:18:22,323 --> 00:18:27,403 So when I got to the front door I unlocked the front door 298 00:18:27,443 --> 00:18:29,443 with my hands behind my back 299 00:18:29,483 --> 00:18:36,003 and proceeded to basically run out in the street with no clothes on. 300 00:18:37,163 --> 00:18:39,443 When I ran to the first car, 301 00:18:39,483 --> 00:18:42,763 he just slowed down and then he just went around me, and I'm like, 302 00:18:42,803 --> 00:18:45,563 "I'll be damned if the next one's gonna get past me." 303 00:18:45,603 --> 00:18:48,763 So when it got closer, I jumped in front of it. 304 00:18:48,803 --> 00:18:52,243 He stopped and then I went onto his side of the truck, screaming, 305 00:18:52,283 --> 00:18:54,099 "please help my brother. Please help my brother. 306 00:18:54,123 --> 00:18:56,083 Somebody's inside trying to kill my brother." 307 00:18:56,123 --> 00:18:59,323 The driver pulled over and headed towards the house 308 00:18:59,363 --> 00:19:02,843 to confront the attacker, who'd left Randy for dead. 309 00:19:02,883 --> 00:19:07,883 Upstairs, the 13-year-old had somehow survived the vicious attack 310 00:19:07,923 --> 00:19:11,523 and was lying in a pool of blood on his bedroom floor. 311 00:19:11,563 --> 00:19:18,563 And the next thing I realise is, I woke up and I'm covered in blood. 312 00:19:18,603 --> 00:19:22,683 I ran downstairs and I was going to the front door of the house, 313 00:19:22,723 --> 00:19:24,803 which was near the bottom of the stairs. 314 00:19:24,843 --> 00:19:29,283 And I threw open the front door to get out of the house. 315 00:19:29,323 --> 00:19:33,483 I saw that car that I saw earlier in the driveway 316 00:19:34,643 --> 00:19:38,083 tearing out of the yard out onto the road and taking off. 317 00:19:40,123 --> 00:19:45,123 Miller had evaded the kindly driver who'd stopped to help Lisa, 318 00:19:45,163 --> 00:19:49,243 but not before the man had memorised his licence plate. 319 00:19:49,283 --> 00:19:52,363 The police came, the ambulance came, 320 00:19:52,403 --> 00:19:58,403 and then the last thing I remember was getting in the ambulance upset, 321 00:19:58,443 --> 00:20:01,163 you know, saying, "is my brother gonna die? 322 00:20:01,203 --> 00:20:03,243 Is my brother gonna die? Is my brother gonna die?" 323 00:20:03,283 --> 00:20:07,763 This whole time I didn't see my sister, I didn't hear my sister. 324 00:20:07,803 --> 00:20:10,563 I had no clue where she even was. 325 00:20:10,603 --> 00:20:13,443 But once I got into the ambulance, I heard her crying. 326 00:20:15,603 --> 00:20:17,723 I didn't know what happened to her at this point, 327 00:20:17,763 --> 00:20:20,843 but I knew we were both in a safe place. 328 00:20:20,883 --> 00:20:26,283 And he kind of lifted up off the gurney and said, "sis, I'm ok. 329 00:20:26,323 --> 00:20:28,723 We're going to the hospital. I'm ok," 330 00:20:28,763 --> 00:20:29,763 and I said, "alright." 331 00:20:29,803 --> 00:20:33,083 So then I sat right next to him until we got to the hospital. 332 00:20:33,123 --> 00:20:37,403 Lisa and Randy Gilbert's lives would never be the same again. 333 00:20:37,443 --> 00:20:41,603 But ultimately Don Miller had failed in his attempt 334 00:20:41,643 --> 00:20:43,883 to kill for a fifth time. 335 00:20:43,923 --> 00:20:46,523 The attack on the Gilbert children was so different 336 00:20:46,563 --> 00:20:49,923 from the previous attacks that he'd made, 337 00:20:49,963 --> 00:20:53,683 it tells us how emboldened he was, how confident he was. 338 00:20:53,723 --> 00:20:55,603 He felt completely untouchable. 339 00:20:55,643 --> 00:20:59,003 He's killed multiple people at this point in time, 340 00:20:59,043 --> 00:21:00,203 and he hasn't got caught. 341 00:21:00,243 --> 00:21:01,683 There have been no consequences. 342 00:21:01,723 --> 00:21:05,083 So he feels that he can do whatever he likes now. 343 00:21:05,123 --> 00:21:09,803 Miller was on the run, while Lisa and Randy were still coming to terms 344 00:21:09,843 --> 00:21:13,483 with what had happened at their home on canal road. 345 00:21:14,643 --> 00:21:16,483 I didn't find out till later, 346 00:21:16,523 --> 00:21:18,483 after we were in the hospital, 347 00:21:18,523 --> 00:21:22,723 that she had also been strangled and she was raped. 348 00:21:22,763 --> 00:21:26,563 I didn't quite understand that, as a 13-year-old boy, 349 00:21:26,603 --> 00:21:31,563 what all that really meant at that time, 350 00:21:31,603 --> 00:21:37,283 but I'm thankful that she's still with us. 351 00:21:39,483 --> 00:21:45,683 I feel like if... if I hadn't have come home like I did, 352 00:21:47,563 --> 00:21:49,243 I don't know what woulda happened to her. 353 00:21:51,003 --> 00:21:56,723 I believe that my brother came in just at the perfect timing, 354 00:21:56,763 --> 00:21:58,883 because if not I would have been gone, 355 00:21:58,923 --> 00:22:03,523 and if it wasn't for me getting out, we both would have been gone. 356 00:22:03,563 --> 00:22:07,083 Don Miller had left behind two survivors, 357 00:22:07,123 --> 00:22:09,963 and his licence plate number had been recorded. 358 00:22:10,003 --> 00:22:12,123 The game was seemingly up, 359 00:22:12,163 --> 00:22:17,203 but first the police needed to track him down before he could kill again. 360 00:22:20,603 --> 00:22:26,843 On 16 August 1978, 23-year-old Don Miller had attempted to murder 361 00:22:26,883 --> 00:22:30,403 two teenagers at their home in eaton county, Michigan. 362 00:22:32,523 --> 00:22:35,963 Before fleeing the scene, Miller's licence plate number 363 00:22:36,003 --> 00:22:39,283 had been taken and passed onto the police. 364 00:22:39,323 --> 00:22:43,403 The east Lansing police department were familiar with Don Miller 365 00:22:43,443 --> 00:22:49,563 because he was obviously the suspect in Martha sue young's disappearance. 366 00:22:49,603 --> 00:22:53,283 They knew where he worked, they knew where his parents lived, 367 00:22:53,323 --> 00:22:55,883 and they knew where his new girlfriend lived. 368 00:22:55,923 --> 00:22:59,963 Detective Richard westgate had worked on the Martha sue young case 369 00:23:00,003 --> 00:23:03,923 since her disappearance on new year's day 1977. 370 00:23:03,963 --> 00:23:08,443 He had always suspected Miller of foul play but could never prove it. 371 00:23:08,483 --> 00:23:11,163 The licence plate number was put out. 372 00:23:11,203 --> 00:23:15,803 As soon as I heard that it was Don Miller's car, 373 00:23:15,843 --> 00:23:18,403 I went along with other investigators 374 00:23:18,443 --> 00:23:22,203 to Don Miller's new girlfriend's house. 375 00:23:22,243 --> 00:23:26,683 Basically just waited, and then I saw his car pull up. 376 00:23:27,683 --> 00:23:34,603 I pulled my car behind him, ordered him out of the car at gunpoint, 377 00:23:34,643 --> 00:23:36,843 and his reaction was, 378 00:23:36,883 --> 00:23:39,883 "what's going on? I've just been shopping. 379 00:23:39,923 --> 00:23:42,323 Why are you doing this?" 380 00:23:42,363 --> 00:23:45,803 And other officers then came to assist. 381 00:23:45,843 --> 00:23:48,603 We put him in handcuffs and secured him 382 00:23:48,643 --> 00:23:51,043 to the east Lansing police department. 383 00:23:51,083 --> 00:23:56,963 Miller was interrogated about the attack on Lisa and Randy Gilbert. 384 00:23:57,003 --> 00:24:01,563 Detective norm Kelly interviewed him and confronted him 385 00:24:01,603 --> 00:24:06,483 with the fact that witnesses had gotten his licence plate number, 386 00:24:06,523 --> 00:24:08,963 had picked him out of a photo line-up, 387 00:24:09,003 --> 00:24:14,683 had described him to a t, and yet Miller maintained that he 388 00:24:14,723 --> 00:24:19,683 didn't know how that could possibly be, because he wasn't involved. 389 00:24:20,803 --> 00:24:25,363 The information gathered by witnesses was enough for detectives 390 00:24:25,403 --> 00:24:30,483 to arrest Miller, much to the relief of 14-year-old Lisa. 391 00:24:30,523 --> 00:24:35,043 I don't quite remember when I was told, but when I was, 392 00:24:35,083 --> 00:24:36,923 I was happy that he was caught and I'm like, 393 00:24:36,963 --> 00:24:39,459 "are you sure you got the right one? Are you sure you got the right guy? 394 00:24:39,483 --> 00:24:41,083 Are you sure?" 395 00:24:41,123 --> 00:24:44,203 Detectives not only questioned Miller about the attack 396 00:24:44,243 --> 00:24:47,963 on the Gilberts and the disappearance of Martha sue young. 397 00:24:48,003 --> 00:24:51,763 They also quizzed him about three other crimes that had taken place 398 00:24:51,803 --> 00:24:55,603 in the Lansing area over the previous two months. 399 00:24:55,643 --> 00:25:01,923 27-year-old marita choquette had vanished on 15 June 1978. 400 00:25:03,003 --> 00:25:05,043 She was taking the trash out, 401 00:25:05,083 --> 00:25:09,083 and she bantered back and forth jokingly with her neighbour, 402 00:25:09,123 --> 00:25:12,043 and that was the last she was ever seen. 403 00:25:12,083 --> 00:25:15,683 Marita choquette's vehicle was found the next morning 404 00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:18,363 on the Michigan state university campus, 405 00:25:18,403 --> 00:25:21,603 but it wasn't parked in its usual position. 406 00:25:21,643 --> 00:25:26,523 And when her boss arrived at work, her boss thought, 407 00:25:26,563 --> 00:25:28,683 "well, she must be here early," 408 00:25:28,723 --> 00:25:31,283 and as she began to check around, 409 00:25:31,323 --> 00:25:34,603 she realised that marita was not there. 410 00:25:34,643 --> 00:25:38,843 Police didn't have any reason to link Miller to marita at the time, 411 00:25:38,883 --> 00:25:42,163 but they knew for sure that she had been murdered. 412 00:25:42,203 --> 00:25:45,483 It was about two weeks later when marita's body 413 00:25:45,523 --> 00:25:47,203 was discovered by a farmer, 414 00:25:47,243 --> 00:25:50,323 about 10 miles from the Michigan state university campus. 415 00:25:51,523 --> 00:25:54,683 And her body appeared to be positioned, 416 00:25:54,723 --> 00:25:58,603 so it was as if she had been standing up 417 00:25:58,643 --> 00:25:59,643 and she'd fallen back, 418 00:25:59,683 --> 00:26:01,803 because her feet were tucked underneath her. 419 00:26:01,843 --> 00:26:06,643 And also her hands had been severed, and they were laying at her side. 420 00:26:06,683 --> 00:26:10,283 Detectives interrogated Miller about another woman - 421 00:26:10,323 --> 00:26:14,203 21-year-old Wendy bush - who had disappeared on the same day 422 00:26:14,243 --> 00:26:20,043 that marita's body had been discovered, 27 June 1978. 423 00:26:20,083 --> 00:26:21,723 The following day, 424 00:26:21,763 --> 00:26:27,083 Wendy was supposed to show up for work at one of the cafes on campus, 425 00:26:27,123 --> 00:26:31,323 and when she didn't show up, her supervisor became concerned 426 00:26:31,363 --> 00:26:34,803 and they checked her dorm and discovered 427 00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:37,323 that all of her belongings were there. 428 00:26:37,363 --> 00:26:40,683 And so she was reported as a missing person. 429 00:26:40,723 --> 00:26:42,323 Wendy bush, it was said, 430 00:26:42,363 --> 00:26:46,523 was last seen with a tall white man on campus. 431 00:26:47,883 --> 00:26:49,523 Well, Miller wasn't a very tall man, 432 00:26:50,963 --> 00:26:52,723 so there was really nothing to connect him 433 00:26:52,763 --> 00:26:55,083 with the disappearance of Wendy bush, either. 434 00:26:55,123 --> 00:26:57,203 It was a mystery. 435 00:26:57,243 --> 00:27:01,283 Miller denied knowing anything about Wendy bush, 436 00:27:01,323 --> 00:27:04,043 but detectives were certain he was responsible 437 00:27:04,083 --> 00:27:06,523 for the disappearance of another woman - 438 00:27:06,563 --> 00:27:09,043 30-year-old kristine Stuart. 439 00:27:09,083 --> 00:27:12,403 Kristine had disappeared on 14 August, 440 00:27:12,443 --> 00:27:16,603 just two days before Miller had attacked the Gilberts. 441 00:27:16,643 --> 00:27:21,683 Kristine Stuart was a teacher at Lansing's everette high school. 442 00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:24,963 She was adored by her students. 443 00:27:25,003 --> 00:27:29,243 She was a very well-known, very well-liked teacher. 444 00:27:29,283 --> 00:27:34,803 She was married to a contractor, and they lived in the east Lansing area. 445 00:27:34,843 --> 00:27:38,163 She and her husband got along very well. 446 00:27:38,203 --> 00:27:43,323 She would not disappear for any reason at all, 447 00:27:43,363 --> 00:27:47,363 so it was unlike kris Stuart to just vanish. 448 00:27:47,403 --> 00:27:52,803 Investigators had been searching for kristine for the past two days. 449 00:27:52,843 --> 00:27:56,003 We secured every police officer available 450 00:27:56,043 --> 00:27:59,083 in the area of east Lansing. 451 00:27:59,123 --> 00:28:01,883 We used the helicopter to try to see 452 00:28:01,923 --> 00:28:04,963 if there was a body or anything we could see. 453 00:28:05,003 --> 00:28:06,563 We had bike patrols. 454 00:28:06,603 --> 00:28:08,963 We had all the cars that were out. 455 00:28:09,003 --> 00:28:14,083 We did everything we could possibly to see if she was 456 00:28:14,123 --> 00:28:17,403 just missing in the area, and we did not locate her. 457 00:28:17,443 --> 00:28:19,963 Fortunately for detectives, 458 00:28:20,003 --> 00:28:23,603 a witness had seen kristine's abduction firsthand 459 00:28:23,643 --> 00:28:26,203 and gave a statement to the police. 460 00:28:26,243 --> 00:28:29,843 She would later pick out Miller's photo in an identity parade. 461 00:28:29,883 --> 00:28:34,923 There was a woman who was travelling north on coolidge, 462 00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:41,323 and a car turned in front of her and she saw a man that was wrestling 463 00:28:41,363 --> 00:28:44,803 basically with a woman, trying to force her into a vehicle. 464 00:28:44,843 --> 00:28:50,603 And she saw the man thrust a knife three times 465 00:28:50,643 --> 00:28:54,043 down into the car and was able to describe blood 466 00:28:54,083 --> 00:28:59,083 dripping off of the knife as Don Miller stabbed kristine Stuart. 467 00:28:59,123 --> 00:29:01,723 At that point, you would have thought, 468 00:29:01,763 --> 00:29:06,523 had Donald Miller been as clever as he thought he was, 469 00:29:06,563 --> 00:29:08,123 he would have stopped. 470 00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:10,083 He would have simply said, 471 00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:13,563 "well, there's nothing to connect me with any of these disappearances. 472 00:29:13,603 --> 00:29:17,243 There's nothing to connect me with the one body they've got. 473 00:29:17,283 --> 00:29:20,523 I won't do anything." But he didn't. 474 00:29:24,803 --> 00:29:28,243 Just two days after Miller had been seen stabbing kristine, 475 00:29:28,283 --> 00:29:31,123 he'd attacked Lisa and Randy Gilbert. 476 00:29:31,163 --> 00:29:35,763 He was now in custody but refusing to admit to any of the attacks. 477 00:29:35,803 --> 00:29:39,043 Nonetheless, a grand jury was impanelled, 478 00:29:39,083 --> 00:29:41,083 and Miller was charged with the crimes 479 00:29:41,123 --> 00:29:43,683 that detectives could link him to. 480 00:29:43,723 --> 00:29:49,123 That grand jury indicted Don Miller in two of the disappearances - 481 00:29:50,363 --> 00:29:54,123 one for the disappearance of Martha sue young 482 00:29:54,163 --> 00:29:56,923 and the disappearance of kristine Stuart. 483 00:29:56,963 --> 00:30:00,883 And he was indicted for second-degree murder in those cases. 484 00:30:00,923 --> 00:30:04,283 The prosecuting attorney's office felt they could prove 485 00:30:04,323 --> 00:30:05,803 second-degree murder. 486 00:30:05,843 --> 00:30:09,443 There's no way, without a body, they could prove premeditation. 487 00:30:09,483 --> 00:30:13,483 And so he was indicted for two of the disappearances 488 00:30:13,523 --> 00:30:17,003 and eventually charged in those murders. 489 00:30:17,043 --> 00:30:21,843 Miller would first stand trial for the horrific attack on the Gilberts. 490 00:30:21,883 --> 00:30:25,163 The two children that he had left callously for dead 491 00:30:25,203 --> 00:30:29,163 would have to look into the eyes of the killer one last time. 492 00:30:31,723 --> 00:30:37,243 In may 1979 Don Miller was on trial in berrien county, Michigan. 493 00:30:37,283 --> 00:30:41,043 The 24-year-old was charged with the rape and attempted murder 494 00:30:41,083 --> 00:30:44,883 of Lisa Gilbert and the attempted murder of her brother, Randy. 495 00:30:44,923 --> 00:30:50,003 Miller was a devout Christian, but his story was far from holy. 496 00:30:51,083 --> 00:30:55,403 During his trial, Don Miller claimed that he only went 497 00:30:55,443 --> 00:31:00,843 into the Gilbert home to rid the home of demons. 498 00:31:00,883 --> 00:31:05,243 He used a demon defence, not that he was possessed, 499 00:31:05,283 --> 00:31:09,043 but that there was some sort of an occult inside the home 500 00:31:09,083 --> 00:31:11,963 and that he went in to rescue the people in there. 501 00:31:13,043 --> 00:31:16,443 Lisa and Randy both testified in the courtroom 502 00:31:16,483 --> 00:31:20,843 and had to face their attacker for the first time since their ordeal. 503 00:31:20,883 --> 00:31:25,323 I remember looking at him and they had him - he was wearing a suit. 504 00:31:26,403 --> 00:31:29,563 I remember thinking, as an angry teenage boy is, 505 00:31:29,603 --> 00:31:31,243 "why's he get to wear a suit? 506 00:31:31,283 --> 00:31:32,923 Why's he not in jail clothes?" 507 00:31:32,963 --> 00:31:35,163 You know... I had to see him, though. 508 00:31:35,203 --> 00:31:42,203 I had to testify that he was the one, and I clearly knew he was. 509 00:31:42,243 --> 00:31:45,363 And it was really difficult for my sister as well. 510 00:31:45,403 --> 00:31:46,963 I was scared. 511 00:31:47,003 --> 00:31:48,923 I was nervous knowing 512 00:31:48,963 --> 00:31:52,723 that I was in the same room as him and that I was facing him. 513 00:31:52,763 --> 00:31:58,123 A lot of things were kept hush-hush, you know, 'cause we were young. 514 00:31:58,163 --> 00:32:00,803 They didn't want to hurt us anymore 515 00:32:00,843 --> 00:32:02,803 than what we were already going through. 516 00:32:04,443 --> 00:32:08,723 On 9 may 1979, Don Miller was found guilty 517 00:32:08,763 --> 00:32:12,003 on all three rape and attempted murder charges. 518 00:32:12,043 --> 00:32:15,443 He was sentenced to 30-50 years in prison. 519 00:32:15,483 --> 00:32:20,083 He was due in court again soon after to answer second-degree murder 520 00:32:20,123 --> 00:32:23,883 charges for his part in the disappearances of his former fiancee, 521 00:32:23,923 --> 00:32:28,363 Martha sue young, and 30-year-old teacher kristine Stuart. 522 00:32:28,403 --> 00:32:30,883 But while he was behind bars, 523 00:32:30,923 --> 00:32:33,163 he suddenly appeared willing to talk about 524 00:32:33,203 --> 00:32:35,603 the other crimes he'd committed. 525 00:32:35,643 --> 00:32:40,363 The prison warden noticed that he was very withdrawn 526 00:32:41,483 --> 00:32:45,923 and felt that possibly some regressive psychotherapy 527 00:32:45,963 --> 00:32:48,083 could be used, or some hypnosis. 528 00:32:48,123 --> 00:32:53,363 And in those regressive psychotherapy interviews, 529 00:32:53,403 --> 00:32:57,443 Don Miller admitted to the murder of Martha sue young 530 00:32:57,483 --> 00:33:02,803 and the murder of kristine Stuart 531 00:33:02,843 --> 00:33:06,803 and the murder of Wendy bush and the murder of marita choquette. 532 00:33:07,923 --> 00:33:10,403 During a search of Miller's home, 533 00:33:10,443 --> 00:33:13,843 investigators had already uncovered some damning evidence 534 00:33:13,883 --> 00:33:16,283 in the marita choquette case. 535 00:33:16,323 --> 00:33:22,443 In a drawer in his room I found the handcuffs 536 00:33:22,483 --> 00:33:27,923 that obviously he had used to handcuff marita choquette. 537 00:33:27,963 --> 00:33:30,563 And he must not have had a key, 538 00:33:30,603 --> 00:33:34,003 because that's why he severed the hands off. 539 00:33:34,043 --> 00:33:38,163 So we found the handcuffs in the drawer in his room. 540 00:33:38,203 --> 00:33:41,403 There were blood samples inside the handcuffs 541 00:33:41,443 --> 00:33:44,163 which were traced back to marita choquette. 542 00:33:45,803 --> 00:33:48,363 It certainly isn't enough for Miller at this point 543 00:33:48,403 --> 00:33:50,003 to just kill his victim. 544 00:33:50,043 --> 00:33:52,603 His victim is his possession - 545 00:33:52,643 --> 00:33:56,483 he owns her and he's going to do what he wants to her. 546 00:33:56,523 --> 00:34:00,883 And by severing her hands, by leaving her in this state, 547 00:34:00,923 --> 00:34:03,083 he's essentially dehumanising her. 548 00:34:03,123 --> 00:34:06,283 He's completely possessing and controlling her. 549 00:34:06,323 --> 00:34:09,603 But Don Miller would never face a trial for murder. 550 00:34:09,643 --> 00:34:13,003 In a bid to find closure for the families of his victims, 551 00:34:13,043 --> 00:34:16,603 and as he was already facing 50 years in prison, 552 00:34:16,643 --> 00:34:19,163 he was offered a deal by prosecutors. 553 00:34:19,203 --> 00:34:24,003 Don Miller accepted a plea deal with the prosecuting attorney's office, 554 00:34:24,043 --> 00:34:26,683 and in that plea deal, 555 00:34:26,723 --> 00:34:31,603 he was allowed to plead to two counts of manslaughter, 556 00:34:31,643 --> 00:34:35,523 and the original two counts of second-degree murder 557 00:34:35,563 --> 00:34:37,043 would be dropped. 558 00:34:37,083 --> 00:34:42,123 But in exchange for that plea, within a week, 559 00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:45,323 he would have to lead authorities to the bodies 560 00:34:45,363 --> 00:34:49,563 of the remaining missing three victims, 561 00:34:49,603 --> 00:34:54,523 Martha sue young, Wendy bush and kristine Stuart. 562 00:34:54,563 --> 00:34:57,043 In July 1979, 563 00:34:57,083 --> 00:35:00,483 Miller led detectives to the remains of each of the women 564 00:35:00,523 --> 00:35:02,963 he'd killed, one after the other - 565 00:35:03,003 --> 00:35:07,403 beginning with his former fiancee and first victim, Martha sue young. 566 00:35:07,443 --> 00:35:13,563 Martha sue young's body was found at a park in bath township, 567 00:35:13,603 --> 00:35:17,123 north-east of Lansing, a park called priggooris park. 568 00:35:18,243 --> 00:35:24,683 It had been 18 months or more since she had come up missing, 569 00:35:24,723 --> 00:35:29,723 and it was basically a skeleton when she was discovered. 570 00:35:32,123 --> 00:35:35,123 Wendy bush's body was the next to be found. 571 00:35:35,163 --> 00:35:39,523 Miller told detectives he'd once gone canoeing with the 21-year-old. 572 00:35:39,563 --> 00:35:44,683 He choked her to death in a parking lot at Michigan state university. 573 00:35:44,723 --> 00:35:51,483 And then we went and found kris Stuart's remains in a ditch 574 00:35:51,523 --> 00:35:55,043 in a farm field, and he pointed them out. 575 00:35:55,083 --> 00:35:56,963 He didn't even get out of the car. 576 00:35:57,003 --> 00:35:59,363 He just said, "her remains are right over there." 577 00:35:59,403 --> 00:36:03,923 And I was walking with one of the prosecutors at the time 578 00:36:03,963 --> 00:36:07,363 and actually discovered the remains 579 00:36:07,403 --> 00:36:11,163 at our feet in a little water ditch. 580 00:36:11,203 --> 00:36:17,603 So she had been there for quite a few days until we found her. 581 00:36:18,803 --> 00:36:22,443 Miller said he'd run down kristine Stuart in his car 582 00:36:22,483 --> 00:36:24,123 before strangling her to death, 583 00:36:24,163 --> 00:36:27,323 because he was convinced she was Martha sue young. 584 00:36:27,363 --> 00:36:30,403 Kristine was Miller's fourth and final victim. 585 00:36:30,443 --> 00:36:33,523 Because of the plea deal, Don Miller, 586 00:36:33,563 --> 00:36:37,803 who was already serving 30-50 years for the attack on the Gilberts, 587 00:36:37,843 --> 00:36:40,243 was sentenced to ten additional years 588 00:36:40,283 --> 00:36:43,363 for the manslaughter of Martha and kristine. 589 00:36:45,363 --> 00:36:49,803 He's killed four young women, dumped their bodies, 590 00:36:49,843 --> 00:36:53,883 done dreadful things, and yet he gets ten years. 591 00:36:53,923 --> 00:36:56,323 Oh. Suppose everyone was thinking, 592 00:36:56,363 --> 00:36:58,763 "well, he's already serving 30-50 years." 593 00:36:58,803 --> 00:37:02,323 Well, it's not another ten at the end, it's ten concurrently, 594 00:37:02,363 --> 00:37:05,363 so he's still only going to serve exactly the same as he did 595 00:37:05,403 --> 00:37:09,563 for the rape and attempted murder of Lisa and Randy. 596 00:37:09,603 --> 00:37:12,443 Don Miller could have been released by now, 597 00:37:12,483 --> 00:37:18,003 but in 1994 he was given another 20-40 years on his sentence 598 00:37:18,043 --> 00:37:21,203 because a homemade weapon was found in his cell. 599 00:37:21,243 --> 00:37:24,683 I think it's important for the public to understand that 600 00:37:24,723 --> 00:37:28,563 Don Miller is not in prison right now for murder 601 00:37:28,603 --> 00:37:32,043 or for rape or for attempted murder. 602 00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:34,643 Don Miller is only still in prison for 603 00:37:34,683 --> 00:37:38,603 possessing a strangulation device, or a garotte, in his prison dorm. 604 00:37:39,883 --> 00:37:41,923 This is clearly something that is significant 605 00:37:41,963 --> 00:37:44,363 in terms of the murders that he committed, 606 00:37:44,403 --> 00:37:47,683 because had he addressed all of those underlying factors, 607 00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:49,043 which led to his offending, 608 00:37:49,083 --> 00:37:52,403 he would have no need to have that kind of thing in his cell. 609 00:37:52,443 --> 00:37:55,363 So the fact that it was there suggests to me 610 00:37:55,403 --> 00:37:57,283 he's reliving these attacks, 611 00:37:57,323 --> 00:37:59,723 he's revisiting them, he's enjoying that. 612 00:38:00,883 --> 00:38:03,883 So obviously that's telling you right then and there 613 00:38:03,923 --> 00:38:06,483 that he's not rehabilitated. 614 00:38:06,523 --> 00:38:08,603 He's thinking about doing it again. 615 00:38:08,643 --> 00:38:11,403 And he's still thinking about doing it again 616 00:38:11,443 --> 00:38:13,283 if they allow him to get out. 617 00:38:13,323 --> 00:38:17,363 Miller has been up for parole several times since his incarceration. 618 00:38:17,403 --> 00:38:20,163 Leading the fight to keep him behind bars 619 00:38:20,203 --> 00:38:23,363 is eaton county prosecutor Doug Lloyd. 620 00:38:23,403 --> 00:38:27,443 The minute we receive notice that that individual's up for parole, 621 00:38:27,483 --> 00:38:28,963 it's a process. 622 00:38:29,003 --> 00:38:32,443 My office begins the process of preparing letters 623 00:38:32,483 --> 00:38:34,483 to send to the parole board. 624 00:38:34,523 --> 00:38:38,203 We begin gathering individuals who will send letters 625 00:38:38,243 --> 00:38:40,243 and who will contact the parole board 626 00:38:40,283 --> 00:38:44,443 to let them know that this individual should not be released. 627 00:38:44,483 --> 00:38:48,763 I've already written a letter to the Michigan parole board. 628 00:38:48,803 --> 00:38:53,283 This is something that never leaves you as an investigator. 629 00:38:54,443 --> 00:39:00,763 This person killed four people, attempted to kill two more people, 630 00:39:00,803 --> 00:39:03,443 a 14-year-old and a 13-year-old. 631 00:39:03,483 --> 00:39:06,163 I know him better than anybody, 632 00:39:06,203 --> 00:39:12,563 and I'm afraid if Don Miller is released he will kill again. 633 00:39:13,723 --> 00:39:17,723 Despite his crimes, reports from prison suggest that Miller 634 00:39:17,763 --> 00:39:21,363 is ready to be reintegrated into society. 635 00:39:21,403 --> 00:39:23,723 Don Miller is a sociopath. 636 00:39:25,083 --> 00:39:32,043 In reality, he plays the part that he knows he must play within prison. 637 00:39:32,083 --> 00:39:35,443 And because of that, he places himself 638 00:39:35,483 --> 00:39:39,483 in the ability to be viewed for parole every year, 639 00:39:39,523 --> 00:39:42,843 which is why it's so important to the victims 640 00:39:42,883 --> 00:39:46,363 that the parole board have that ability to say, 641 00:39:46,403 --> 00:39:48,403 "you won't be reviewed for five years." 642 00:39:49,723 --> 00:39:51,203 Because he's a serial killer. 643 00:39:51,243 --> 00:39:54,003 That's what he was when he was out on the streets. 644 00:39:54,043 --> 00:39:56,123 That's what he is in prison. 645 00:39:57,443 --> 00:40:00,443 To me, the word 'serial killer' and 'parole' 646 00:40:00,483 --> 00:40:03,083 should not even be in the same paragraph, or the same sentence, 647 00:40:03,123 --> 00:40:04,443 for that matter. 648 00:40:04,483 --> 00:40:10,323 So we sit here today, probably just as scared as I was back then, 649 00:40:11,883 --> 00:40:17,043 that this monster could be walking the streets right now, soon. 650 00:40:19,283 --> 00:40:24,283 In June 2021, Miller's latest bid for freedom failed. 651 00:40:24,323 --> 00:40:29,683 Michigan state law dictates that the 66-year-old can apply for parole 652 00:40:29,723 --> 00:40:31,203 every 12 months, 653 00:40:31,243 --> 00:40:34,723 making it a constant battle for Doug and the Gilberts. 654 00:40:34,763 --> 00:40:39,603 You know what amazes me is the fact that they both get up every day, 655 00:40:39,643 --> 00:40:41,963 and they go about their lives, 656 00:40:42,003 --> 00:40:45,363 and they both become productive members in our community, 657 00:40:45,403 --> 00:40:49,323 because they'd have every right to not wanna be, 658 00:40:49,363 --> 00:40:53,803 because they've been imprisoned by a serial killer 659 00:40:53,843 --> 00:40:56,803 since that day in 1978. 660 00:40:58,563 --> 00:41:02,363 We have to do this every year for the next nine years. 661 00:41:02,403 --> 00:41:08,123 In the year 2031, he's... He's able to walk out of jail, 662 00:41:08,163 --> 00:41:12,643 and his sentence is over and... 663 00:41:14,803 --> 00:41:16,923 That's really tough to deal with right now. 664 00:41:19,043 --> 00:41:22,203 Miller committed his crimes in his early 20s 665 00:41:22,243 --> 00:41:25,603 and has spent the majority of his life behind bars. 666 00:41:25,643 --> 00:41:30,123 But Lisa and Randy have also suffered a lifetime of pain, 667 00:41:30,163 --> 00:41:34,683 caused by their horrendous ordeal in August 1978. 668 00:41:34,723 --> 00:41:37,763 I have physical scars on my body 669 00:41:37,803 --> 00:41:41,003 that I see every day that are reminders. 670 00:41:41,043 --> 00:41:44,003 I have nightmares constantly. 671 00:41:44,043 --> 00:41:45,443 I don't sleep well. 672 00:41:46,443 --> 00:41:48,203 Without getting too emotional, 673 00:41:48,243 --> 00:41:54,443 it's very difficult for me to this day to really think hard, 674 00:41:54,483 --> 00:41:57,243 talk about what happened to her. 675 00:41:57,283 --> 00:42:02,483 If I wasn't off goofing off, it may not have happened. 676 00:42:03,963 --> 00:42:05,363 It probably wouldn't have happened. 677 00:42:06,283 --> 00:42:11,483 Or if I was home, Don Miller would have seen both of us 678 00:42:11,523 --> 00:42:16,123 and not just my sister and he would have kept on going. 679 00:42:16,163 --> 00:42:19,923 So I feel that, you know, it's kind of my fault, 680 00:42:22,003 --> 00:42:24,163 so I have to protect her. 681 00:42:28,763 --> 00:42:31,683 I don't think I could ever speak to him face to face, 682 00:42:34,163 --> 00:42:36,563 but if I could write to him, I'd write to him and tell him, 683 00:42:36,603 --> 00:42:38,003 "may you rot in hell." 684 00:42:39,963 --> 00:42:43,963 He has no remorse. He is not forgiving. 685 00:42:44,003 --> 00:42:46,763 You can just see how he escalated, 686 00:42:46,803 --> 00:42:52,483 and how he was going to kill a 14-year-old and a 13-year-old. 687 00:42:52,523 --> 00:42:53,803 You know how he had already 688 00:42:53,843 --> 00:42:54,963 killed his girlfriend 689 00:42:55,003 --> 00:42:57,563 at the time and three other ladies. 690 00:42:57,603 --> 00:43:00,043 He is a danger. 691 00:43:00,083 --> 00:43:04,443 He is a threat, and he does not need to be released. 692 00:43:06,163 --> 00:43:10,523 We may never know why Don Miller chose to end the life of four women. 693 00:43:10,563 --> 00:43:13,203 He's never given an explanation for it. 694 00:43:13,243 --> 00:43:17,243 What we do know is he left behind four grieving families 695 00:43:17,283 --> 00:43:19,883 and ruined the lives of two children, 696 00:43:19,923 --> 00:43:24,243 who are still affected by his murderous attack to this day. 697 00:43:24,283 --> 00:43:27,523 The fact that a supposed staunch Christian 698 00:43:27,563 --> 00:43:29,723 can stoop to such depravity 699 00:43:29,763 --> 00:43:34,763 makes Don Miller one of the world's most evil killers. 700 00:43:34,803 --> 00:43:36,163 Captioned by ai-media ai-media. 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