The 20-year-old son of President Reagan's personal lawyer was charged today with firstdegree murder and rape in his mother's death. Arraignment for the accused, Michael David Miller, was postponed until April 11. Mr. Miller is the son of Roy Miller, who handles legal work for the President in connection with taxes and real estate.
TORRANCE, Calif. -- The son of President Reagan's personal lawyer was insane when he clubbed his mother to death and will be committed to a mental hospital, a judge ruled. Michael Miller, 22, was ...
Is justice dished out differently to the very rich and not so famous? These cases of patricide nd Matricide are more than likely names you've never heard
It was one of the biggest news stories to ever come out of Palos Verdes Estates: Michael Miller, the schizophrenic son of President Ronald Reagan's personal attorney, was charged with raping and ...
-- The son of President Reagan's personal lawyer was convicted Tuesday of the first-degree bludgeon murder of his mother, but was acquitted of raping her, apparently because she may already have been dead.
Faerstein testified that Miller told him he wanted 'to give his mother a child' to replace his older brother Jeffrey, who committed suicide in March 1981.
After the murder Miller was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia, declared incompetent to stand trial at an April 1983 sanity hearing and was committed to Patton. In December 1983, however, doctors concluded Miller had regained sufficient mental comptency to face prosecution. Back to Article. /.
Only one witness was called at the trial, a defense psychiatrist who had examined Miller, and both prosecutors and defense lawyers submitted their cases in part on the transcript from a long preliminary hearing. Roy Miller, the defendant's father, handled Reagan's tax matters before taking the expanded role of personal attorney in 1981.
Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, who heard the one-day trial without a jury at the request of the defense, found Miller innocent of the additional charge of raping his mother, Maguerite, 52.
Michael Miller, 22, a diagnosed schizophrenic, also was determined to have been insane at the time of the crime and was committed to Patton State Hospital, where he will stay for life unless he regains his sanity, prosecutor Rick de la Sota said. Advertisement.
Longmire, who has read the book, said that Michael Miller sometimes teased his daughter and that the Miller family members kept to themselves.
Michael Miller’s schizophrenic older brother, Jeffrey, overdosed on aspirin at the age of 23 while in a mental institution.
McDougal’s book, however, is heavy on the details of the crime and suggests Marguerite Miller’s controlling nature and obsession with health food as a motive for the murder.
But some believe the case was singled out because of its elements: a wealthy family, a child with a mental disorder and a family patriarch in high political circles. “Suppose it had been a murder in Gardena,” said Palos Verdes Estates Police Lt. Ed Jaakola, one of the murder investigators. “No one would have cared.”.
When Ronald Reagan forgot about his adapted son Michael Reagan. In 1945, President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, the actress Jane Wyman adopted a son Michael E. Reagan. His adoption was not a happy one and he is now estranged from his family. ‘Reagan: The Life’ by H.W. Brands recalls Michael Raegan’s story, ...
What’s yours?”. The boy said, “I’m your son, Mike.” “Oh,” said Reagan. “I didn’t recognize you.”. Reagan and his first wife Wyman divorced in 1952.
Reagan and his first wife Wyman divorced in 1952. Michael Reagan was born in Los Angeles to Irene Flaugher, an unmarried woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through a relationship with U.S. Army corporal John Bourgholtzer. Michael Reagan is a conservative radio host and strategist for the American Republican party. No related posts.
In 1964 Ronald Reagan was the commencement speaker at an exclusive preparatory school outside Scottsdale, Arizona. He was standing with several of the graduating seniors, who were invited to pose for pictures with him. He chatted to each of the graduates in turn, and to one of the boys said: “My name is Ronald Reagan. What’s yours?” The boy said, “I’m your son, Mike.” “Oh,” said Reagan. “I didn’t recognize you.”
On July 22, 1983, in a Sunset Boulevard mansion, twenty-year-old Ricky Kyle shot his millionaire father , Henry Harrison Kyle, in the back after awakening him in the middle of the night to tell him there was a prowler in the house. Several witnesses testified that Ricky had confided in them that he had a burning desire to kill his father. He alleged to have been physically and mentally abused by the man his whole life. The prosecution argued that Ricky was consumed with hatred for his father and greedy for his fortune. Fearing that he was about to be disinherited, Michael plotted the ruse of the prowler. With the extraordinary leniency of the Southern California courts for first-time murders, Ricky was sentenced to five years for the slaying. Expressing dismay with the verdict, Ricky’s mother told reporters she had hoped her son would be spared a prison term. “I think he has suffered enough,” she had said. Ricky, now the heir to millions, agreed. “I feel like I don’t deserve to go to prison,” he had said. He went anyway!
Patricide. The killing of the father. And the killing of the mother, Matricide, is not as uncommon as you think. And no social class is spared. Here are three not so famous ‘upper echelon’ killings that include patricide and matricide. They are just three you may have never heard about!
-- The son of President Reagan's personal lawyer was convicted Tuesday of the first-degree bludgeon murder of his mother, but was acquitted of raping her, apparently because she may already have been dead.
Faerstein testified that Miller told him he wanted 'to give his mother a child' to replace his older brother Jeffrey, who committed suicide in March 1981.
After the murder Miller was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia, declared incompetent to stand trial at an April 1983 sanity hearing and was committed to Patton. In December 1983, however, doctors concluded Miller had regained sufficient mental comptency to face prosecution. Back to Article. /.
Only one witness was called at the trial, a defense psychiatrist who had examined Miller, and both prosecutors and defense lawyers submitted their cases in part on the transcript from a long preliminary hearing. Roy Miller, the defendant's father, handled Reagan's tax matters before taking the expanded role of personal attorney in 1981.
Superior Court Judge Cecil J. Mills, who heard the one-day trial without a jury at the request of the defense, found Miller innocent of the additional charge of raping his mother, Maguerite, 52.
Michael Miller, 22, a diagnosed schizophrenic, also was determined to have been insane at the time of the crime and was committed to Patton State Hospital, where he will stay for life unless he regains his sanity, prosecutor Rick de la Sota said. Advertisement.