The Death of April Tinsley - w/ Interview

Mysterious Circumstances

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True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

For three decades, the abduction, rape and murder of 8-year-old April Tinsley in April 1988 had frustrated Indiana investigators. The mysterious killer's taunting messages admitting to the crime, scrawled on a barn door and on paper notes threatening to kill again, only added to the desire to solve the cold case. Still, no suspect could be found.

But thanks to advances in genealogy and DNA technology, the suspected killer was arrested and then confessed to the crime, more than 30 years after April's death.
John D. Miller, 59, was preliminarily charged with murder, child molesting and criminal confinement of a victim under 14.
Police connected him to the homicide by using DNA from the scene of the murder and from the taunting messages, and inputting them into a genealogical database. DNA from Miller's garbage matched DNA from the crime scene and from the taunts, and when police brought him in for questioning, he confessed to the disturbing killing.
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0:49.0	Join me every week in Twisted Philly. It's Fort Wayne's most notorious cold case.
1:00.0	April 1st, 1988 is the last time anyone saw the 8-year-old girl alive.
1:05.0	Three days later, April 4th, her body was found in a ditch near County Road 68.
1:10.0	She was molested, suffocated death ruled a homicide a forensic exam of her
1:16.2	underwear revealed DNA from an unknown male. The case baffling authorities
1:21.2	the mysterious killer inflicting more fear, leaving rambling, misspelled messages, authorities say, like this carving on a barn door two years after the murder.
1:31.5	I kill, 8-year- old April. I will kill again. Then in 2004
1:36.9	according to police more notes left at the homes of other young girls reading
1:42.1	hi honey I've been watching you you are my next victim now
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