I SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Mid-Michigan Killer
I Survived
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 19 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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| 0:00.0 | This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. |
| 0:04.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:06.9 | 23-year-old Don Miller is suspected of the disappearance and murder of four area women. |
| 0:12.5 | He was a serial killer, a psychopath. |
| 0:16.0 | He was a monster. |
| 0:18.3 | The murders and attacks were vicious, calculated, and tragic. He looked to me right in the |
| 0:26.6 | eyes and said he wasn't going to hurt me. He lied. He took my belt and strangled me. He was |
| 0:34.3 | sawing at my neck. I truly believe that he was going to kill me. |
| 0:40.3 | Real people who faced death and lived to tell how. |
| 0:44.3 | This is I survived a serial killer. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Lisa Gilbert Asher, and I survived a serial killer. |
| 0:59.0 | On August 16th, 1978, I was 14 years old, and I lived on Canal Road in Lansing, Michigan. |
| 1:08.0 | I was just an average teenage girl on a summer break from high school. |
| 1:12.6 | That day, my brother Randy was out back and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon we were to call our stepmom to check in for the day. |
| 1:22.6 | I went outside to call for Randy. |
| 1:25.6 | When I came back around the house, I saw a brownish tan car parked in our driveway. |
| 1:33.3 | And this gentleman was standing inside the door that goes into the house. |
| 1:39.3 | With us just previously building this house, I thought that maybe it was a construction worker |
| 1:45.4 | coming to repair something. |
| 1:47.7 | So it just really didn't phase me. |
| 1:50.7 | He came walking out, and he says, |
| 1:53.1 | he's your dad home. |
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