His parents, who lived in a middle-class neighborhood of East Lansing, were considered upstanding, religious, and law-abiding citizens who took good care of their son.
[4] His fourth victim was 30-year-old school teacher Kristine Guske Stuart, whom he met on the street during a walk home from the campus' auto shop on August 14.
Since she was only wearing nylon stockings tied around her wrists and her father's necktie, which Miller had used as a gag, Gilbert immediately attracted the attention of passers-by and motorists.
[4] In the meantime, Miller had managed to choke Randy into unconsciousness and had stabbed him three times, but despite his extensive injuries and blood loss, he survived the ordeal.
[5] Following the attack, Miller attempted to drive away in his brown 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass, but numerous witnesses managed to remember his license plates and appearance.
[6] A plethora of evidence linked him to the crime, including semen samples and fingerprints left on household objects and on the victims' bodies, but despite this, he refused to plead guilty.
[2] A few days later, Miller led the police to the remains of the last victim, Wendy Bush, which were found in a small patch of woods at the intersection of two roads near Delta Charter Township.
[4] He also claimed to be on friendly terms with Choquette, whom he had met while at MSU - Miller stated that on the day of the murder, he had invited her over for breakfast and killed her immediately afterwards.
[8] However, the Ingham County Prosecutor, Peter Houk, later said in a statement that he had no other choice since the bodies of the victims had not yet been discovered and with predominantly circumstantial evidence, the chance of a successful conviction was slim.
After serving 10 years in prison, Miller was allowed to apply for parole in 1989, but this was denied because of protests from his victims' families and due to the seriousness of his crimes.
In 1997, an organization named the Public Awareness and Protection Committee, spearheaded by Martha Young's mother, Sue, was created in order to uncover all the wrongdoings Miller had committed while imprisoned.
Their first discovery was that three years prior, during a search of Miller's cell at the Kinross Correctional Facility, jailguards discovered and confiscated a shoelace that could have been used as a murder weapon.
[12] Upon discovering this, Sue Young contacted representatives of the Chippewa County Prosecutor's Office who, after reviewing the investigation, filed charges against Miller for illegal possession of weaponry.
[13] In response, his victims' relatives and many members of the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office created a petition protesting his release and presented it to the Department of Corrections.
[12] He also said that Miller had not participated in any sex offender rehabilitation programs over the years and had failed to convince the board members that he no longer posed a danger to society.
[17] In 2020, a retired sheriff's sergeant from Eaton County, Rod Sadler, released a book detailing Miller's crimes, titled "Killing Women".