Gwen Miller

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AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Episode 14 Gwen Miller

In 1968, Gwen Miller was an independent, professional older woman living in Rapid City, South Dakota. No one saw or heard a thing when someone broke into her home and attacked and killed her in her own bed. The killer left the crime scene pristine, tidying up and slipping out into the night. Despite there being a prime suspect whom the investigators were convinced had killed Gwen, there were no arrests. Her case went unsolved for 51 years, until forensic genealogy was able to predict the surname of the murderer. And the man who killed her had only the most remote known connection to Gwen. We can only guess at what dark forces drove him to invade her home and rape and murder her on that leap year day, so many decades ago.

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0:28.7	episode. Episode 14, Gwen Miller.
0:55.0	It was 1968. I wasn't born yet and I'm sure that many of you weren't either.
1:01.0	But 60-year-old Gwen Miller was living and working in Rapid City, South Dakota.
1:06.0	She was a professional woman who lived on her own at 3901 Hall Street in a modest home she had designed
1:13.0	and had built for herself. On Thursday, February 29th in the 1968 leap year, Gwen didn't
1:20.7	show up for work at her usual time. Known for her dedication to her job and punctual nature,
1:26.5	Gwen's absence was caused for alarm.
1:29.3	Several of Gwen's coworkers knew of her health struggles and that over the years, she had been
1:34.2	in and out of the hospital numerous times, suffering from diabetic comas.
1:39.4	So when she failed to come into work and they could not reach her on her home phone, Nurse Gail, Luce, and another nursing colleague decided to head over to Gwen's house on Hall Street.
1:50.0	One of the nurses found that the front door was locked and there was no sign of Gwen.
1:54.0	She knocked on the door of a next door neighbor, named in contemporary articles as Mrs. Dave Strain. By the way, it's crazy that in 1968, women were still referred to only in the context of
2:05.9	their husband's names.
2:07.4	Anyway, Mrs. Strain said she had a key to Gwen's house, which Gwen had given her in case of
2:12.7	emergency.
2:14.1	But then, before she could look for it, one of the nurses went around the back of the home
2:18.0	and saw that a pane of glass on the back door had been broken, and the door was unlocked.
2:24.0	It was the only sign that anything was amiss.
2:27.4	The women entered the back door, carefully stepping over the glass shards that lay on the floor.
2:32.8	The small house was neat as a pin,
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