The Trial of Lucille Miller

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Lucille Miller was accused of killing her friend Elaine Haton in 1964. Newspapers reported that the death could have been due to an allergic reaction to hairspray. The trial went on for more than two months and Deborah remembers sitting in the courtroom, watching her mother. Some people close to the family stood by Lucille and felt that the police were reckless to arrest her so quickly.

When Debra Miller woke up on October 8th, 1964, she was expecting to see a black Volkswagen in her family’s driveway. Instead, she saw a police car. “And I knew my father was dead.”

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