There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement.

We have a weird.

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

We would like to believe, especially when it comes to child offenders, that they have a chance of reform.

A boy named John Lawrence Miller was given a second chance just to murder again.

And on October 23, 1975, he was arrested for his crime.

So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning

cup of murder.

John Lawrence Miller was born in 1942 and, at the young age of seven, began having fantasies of

killing.

The Los Angeles native was arrested on several occasions during his childhood for things

such as burglary and being, quote, improperly supervised at home. When he was 15 years

old, he was sent to the Fred C. Nell School for Boys after stealing a car in San Bernardino. Shortly

after arriving on November 11, 1957, his parents secured him a 10-hour day pass so they could take him home for Sunday

dinner. While at the restaurant, John was able to slip away from his parents and head back

towards the home of a family friend, Stafford Thurmond. His plan was simple, break in and steal

money and a gun and go on the run. However, when

he arrived the next day, he found that the house was empty. The 22-month-old daughter of one

of their neighbors, however, was playing in the front yard. John, for reasons unknown, chose

this opportunity to live out his fantasies and Lord Laura Joan

Wetzel into the home. When Laura's parents couldn't find her, they, along with another neighbor

couple, searched frantically for the child. When one of the neighbors went into the Thurman's

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