The Chief, The Floozie & The Church Lady

Anna Marie Miller was born in Washington, D.C., in 1952 and grew up in a small town in Iowa. Friends described her as an attractive, petite, energetic girl who experimented with drugs and was nicknamed Spacey. She drifted through a series of religions, from Catholicism to the Bahai faith, Rosicrucianism and Episcopalianism, before returning to the Catholic Church. In 1975 a one-car crash nearly killed her. Afterwards she dragged one leg and walked with a cane, and she had facial scars that she covered with make-up.

She married a manual labourer named Tom Anton, but the marriage ended in divorce and she came away with $1,000, some appliances from her father and three Irish setters. For a time she lived rent-free in an elderly man's farmhouse in Iowa, an arrangement made through the local Catholic church, until the owner died and the estate sold the property. In October 1986, with nowhere else to go, she moved to Lyons, Nebraska, a town of 712 people which, as the mayor Mary Piper said, gave her no logical reason to be there.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He told Anna that the downstairs flat of the pink house where he lived was free, and she took it, with his cruiser parked outside and the chief living above her.

In town Anna presented herself as intensely devout, hostile to drink and drugs, and frightened of her ex-husband, whom she said had shot out the windows of the farmhouse and whose drug ring she claimed to have reported. She told her neighbour Shirley Edgecomb that she feared for her life and gave her an envelope with the name of an Iowa friend, Sylvia Nelson, to contact if anything happened to her. None of the story was true. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

On 15 December 1986 Anna was not seen. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Her cane was gone, and her three dogs were shut in the basement with no arrangements made for them. this part of the story is covered for now Twelve days later, after Christmas, a farmer collecting hay from leased land on the Winnebago reservation drove down County Road G, an unmaintained dirt road about twenty miles from Lyons, and saw an arm sticking out of the grass. Anna was naked and wrapped in a blanket, with frost on her and three .38 bullet holes, two in the side and one in the head.

details of the account remain covered until revealed On 28 December he denied sleeping with her, then said they had slept together on her first night in town and never again. Blood was found in her flat, in the hallway and on the stairs, and the laboratory confirmed it was her blood type. On 30 December the mayor saw him leaving the First National Bank; he had withdrawn $3,500 and he was gone. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now On 7 January he telephoned a deputy named Douglas in Oakland, Nebraska, to ask whether his name was on the national crime computer, and told him that he had woken to find Anna dead on the kitchen floor, had wrapped her in a sheet and dumped her in a field. Douglas did not pass the account on for eleven days. details of the account remain covered until revealed

He travelled through Belize, Guatemala City and Costa Rica, ran out of money and crossed back into the United States at Nogales. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He now lives in retirement in Daytona Beach and still maintains that a former girlfriend killed Anna in a jealous rage. Anna is buried in Greenville cemetery in Clay County, Iowa.