I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Mid-Michigan Killer
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In August of 1978, 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and her 13-year-old brother, Randy, were attacked by a stranger in their newly built home in Lansing, Michigan. Their attacker was 23-year-old Don Miller. Miller was also a suspect in multiple local disappearance cases spanning the Lansing/East Lansing area. Lisa and Randy each recount Don Miller’s attacks on them; East Lansing Detective, Rick Westgate offers insight into the investigation; and author, Rod Sadler provides additional commentary.
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| 0:30.1 | This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion |
| 0:35.1 | is advised. 23-year-old Don Miller is suspected of the disappearance and murder of four area women. |
| 0:42.5 | He was a serial killer, a psychopath. |
| 0:46.0 | He was a monster. |
| 0:47.7 | The murders and attacks were vicious, calculated, and tragic. |
| 0:55.0 | He looked me right in the eyes and said he wasn't going to hurt me. |
| 0:59.0 | He lied. |
| 1:00.0 | He took my belt and strangled me. |
| 1:03.0 | He was sawing at my neck. |
| 1:06.0 | I truly believe that he was going to kill me. |
| 1:10.0 | Real people who faced death and lived to tell how. |
| 1:14.6 | This is I survived a serial killer. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm Lisa Gilbert Asher, and I survived a serial killer. |
| 1:30.3 | On August 16th, 1978, I was 14 years old, and I lived on Canal Road in Lansing, Michigan. |
| 1:38.3 | I was just an average teenage girl on a summer break from high school. |
| 1:43.3 | That day, my brother Randy was out back and at |
| 1:48.2 | three o'clock in the afternoon we were to call our stepmom to check in for the day. I went outside to |
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