MI MI - MILLER, Donald Eugene, Serial Killer, East Lansing, Michigan 1976

[Richard]

Although Don Gene Miller shouldn't be considered again for Parole until 2027, in accordance with a 2022 Michigan law, anything is possible. If the law changes or is overturned, he could be up again for parole every year - as in the past. His maximum date of confinement is 2031, at which time he will be released (if not paroled sooner).

Miller was recently moved from the Robert Cotton Facility to the Cooper Street Facility, which serves as a release facility for prisoners who are about to parole, discharge, or transfer to community center placement.

If you would like to express your thoughts on whether or not Miller should be paroled, write to:

Michigan Department of correction
Attn: Parole Board
PO Box 30003
Lansing, MI 48909

State in the letter - Re: Don Gene Miller #157793, and sign it so that it will be placed in his file and read when he is again considered for parole.

 

[Richard]

Don Miller​

How does a serial killer who murdered four women and assaulted a 14-year-old girl and her brother end up with a prison release date of May 2031 and multiple chances for parole over the years?

East Lansing serial killer Don Miller, now 66 and a prisoner at G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, is unique because of it, Carpenter said.

Miller, a graduate of East Lansing High School, killed four women between January 1977 and August 1978.

The first, Martha Sue Young, had been engaged to marry Miller but ended their relationship just before she disappeared. He killed the others — Marita Choquette, a 27-year-old editorial assistant at WKAR-TV, 21-year-old Wendy Bush and Kristine Stuart, 30 — in the 18 months after Young disappeared.

Miller also raped 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and attempted to kill both her and her 13-year-old brother Randy in their family's Delta Township home.

An indictment against Miller in Ingham County on second-degree murder charges in the deaths of two of his victims never made it to trial.

Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in exchange for leading police to Young's and Stuart’s bodies. He later revealed details of Choquette's and Bush’s deaths.

Peter Houk, a retired Ingham County Circuit Court Judge who was an Ingham County prosecutor in the 1970s, said there simply wasn't enough evidence to get a conviction. There was nothing linking Miller to the only body they'd found, Choquette's, he said.

In 1994, prison officials found a garrote, a strangling device made from a shoestring and barrel buttons, in Miller’s cell at Kinross Correctional Facility in Chippewa County. A jury convicted him of possessing a weapon in prison, adding another 20 to 40 years to Miller's sentence.

Miller was last denied parole in the spring 2021, his ninth chance since he was first incarcerated...

LINK:

'The worst of the worst.' A look at five Michigan serial killers and their crimes

From Aileen Wuornos and John Norman Collins to East Lansing's Don Miller and Lansing's Matthew Macon, a look at 5 of Michigan's serial killers.

www.lansingstatejournal.com

 

[Richard]

Serial Killer Don Miller will be eligible again for Parole in 2027 and has a mandatory release date of 2031. The plea deal that set up this situation involved Miller leading police to the bodies of Martha Sue Young and Christine Stuart, whom he had admitted killing.

Although he later admitted to murdering a total of four women, he was only convicted in 1979 of killing two of them (Young and Stuart). He was never tried for the murders of Marita Elizabeth Choquette or Wendy Rebecca Bush.

Perhaps it is time that Michigan prosecutors get their act together and charge him with those two murders as well.

 

[Richard]

Known victims of Serial Killer Don Gene Miller: Wendy Rebecca Bush, age 21 - Martha Sue Young, age 19 - Marita Elizabeth Choquette, age 27 - Kristine Rose Guske Stuart, age 31.

How many others were there? How many more will there be if he is released from prison?

 

[Richard]

Serial Killer Don Gene Miller, Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) Number: 157793
Date of Birth: 12/28/1954 Image Date: 6/4/2022
Earliest Release Date: 10/06/2018
Maximum Discharge Date: 05/01/2031
Assigned Location: Cooper Street Facility

LINK:

Offender Tracking Information System (OTIS) - Offender Profile