He hunted for his daughter’s killer for 40 years. Then he got a phone call

Tim Miller’s teen daughter disappeared in 1984, tied to a series of deaths in the Texas ‘killing fields’. After decades, he received a tip that unlocked everything

Tim Miller is good at finding missing people – or rather, their bodies. Four years ago, a stranger called him and left a rambling message claiming that he had important information about an unsolved murder case.

Miller, who lives in Texas and runs a non-profit search-and-recovery organization called EquuSearch, did not treat the message as a high priority. The caller sounded as if he might have been drunk or on drugs. Although tips are vital to EquuSearch’s work, the tip line brings a certain number of hoaxes, cranks and innuendo. Some of the people who leave messages, Miller told me, “probably ought to get their medication checked”.

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11 thoughts on “He hunted for his daughter’s killer for 40 years. Then he got a phone call

  1. Considering tim Miller is good at finding missing people – or rather, their bodies, it raises some real questions about what happens next.

  2. Reading that tim Miller’s teen daughter disappeared in 1984, tied to a series of deaths in the Texas ‘killing fields’ — hard to argue with the logic there.

  3. When you look at tim Miller’s teen daughter disappeared in 1984, tied to a series of deaths in the Texas ‘killing fields’, the implications are hard to ignore.

  4. If miller, who lives in Texas and runs a non-profit search-and-recovery organization called EquuSearch, did not treat the message as a high priority, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.

  5. So the bottom line is tim Miller’s teen daughter disappeared in 1984, tied to a series of deaths in the Texas ‘killing fields’. Wonder how this will land.

  6. Considering miller, who lives in Texas and runs a non-profit search-and-recovery organization called EquuSearch, did not treat the message as a high priority, it raises some real questions about what happens next.

  7. So the bottom line is tim Miller is good at finding missing people – or rather, their bodies. Wonder how this will land.

  8. On one hand miller, who lives in Texas and runs a non-profit search-and-recovery organization called EquuSearch, did not treat the message as a high priority. But at the same time tim Miller’s teen daughter disappeared in 1984, tied to a series of deaths in the Texas ‘killing fields’.

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