Ann Miller mum as case heats up
Sam22
Papers to implicate suspect in poisoning
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Life goes on for Ann Miller as information is revealed pertaining to
Eric Miller's death.
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By OREN DORELL, Staff Writer
WILMINGTON -- Living in this sunny beach town, Ann Miller and family
members appear to carry on as if a homicide investigation gaining
steam in Raleigh has no bearing on their lives.
After a two-year court battle that ended Thursday, investigators now
have in their hands information that implicates a third party in the
2000 death in Raleigh of Eric Miller, who died of arsenic poisoning
while married to Ann Miller.
The information had been told to Wake attorney Rick Gammon by Derril
Willard -- the man whom prosecutors say was having an affair with Ann
Miller when her husband was poisoned. Willard committed suicide a
short time after conferring with Gammon. Police say their evidence
shows that both Willard and Ann Miller had access to an arsenic
compound at GlaxoSmithKline, the drug company where they worked
The information Gammon provided is furthering the homicide
investigation, and police continue to analyze it, said Chris Morgan,
who has led the Eric Miller probe as the police lieutenant in charge
of Raleigh's major crimes unit. (He wouldn't say any more about the
information that consisted of a paragraph about 10 lines long.)
Morgan's official retirement day was Friday, but he said he will stay
on a while longer as an adviser because of the pending investigation.
"I'm fully committed to seeing this case resolved," he said.
Police say someone fed arsenic to Eric Miller but have not named a
suspect.
Ann Miller has remarried and is living with her new husband, his
teenage daughter and the daughter she had with Eric Miller, a
30-year-old pediatric AIDS researcher. Her sister and parents live a
few miles away, and she attends a small church where her husband, Paul
M. Kontz, is music director.
No one answered the front door at the Miller-Kontz household Thursday,
after the couple arrived home in the evening, and no one responded to
a note seeking comment left at the door Saturday.
Dan Brier, Ann Miller's father, responded with ire when a reporter
stopped at his house Saturday afternoon. "I don't care what happens
now or later, I will never, ever speak to any media. Now, please
leave," Brier said.
Raleigh attorney Joe Cheshire, who, together with Raleigh lawyer Wade
Smith, has represented Ann Miller since shortly after Eric Miller's
death, said that early on, "They [Miller's family] had made a
commitment not to make her any more of a public figure than she
already is. ... And I don't think they plan to break their silence."
Neighbors in her well-kept subdivision have been more willing to
speak. They reacted with a mixture of fascination, indifference and
pity for their keeps-to-herself neighbor.
"If it was my son, I tell you what, I'd be willing to give my life to
find out who did it," said Jack Gordon, a retiree who lives across the
street.
Two doors from the Gordons, school teacher Sharon Williams said Miller
and her husband have not socialized with neighbors in the two or three
years they have lived in the area. "When you say hello to someone
across the street, they usually come over, and they just didn't,"
Williams said.
Williams' children often play outside with neighborhood children who
live next door or across from Miller. But Miller's daughter Clare, 4,
who is close in age to the other children, never plays with them,
Williams said.
Williams learned of Ann Miller's background earlier this year, when
she saw a television crew staking out the Miller-Kontz home.
Miller never spoke to that television crew nor to other reporters who
tracked her from Raleigh to Wilmington. She spoke to police for only a
few minutes the weekend of Eric Miller's death, but never since.
After hiring Cheshire and Smith, two of North Carolina's most
prominent criminal defense attorneys, Miller sold the house she and
Eric Miller owned near a cul-de-sac in West Raleigh and moved to
Wilmington.
She worked for a while for Nancy Mullinix, an interior designer who
Saturday said she preferred not to be associated with the case. "I
didn't know about it until a detective came and said something to me,"
Mullinix said. "It's a pretty bizarre thing."
With her sister and brother-in-law, Miller started attending North
Wilmington Community Church, which meets in a small, low building of
corrugated metal siding. The sign over the door carries the message
"Breaking down barriers. Building community. Becoming more like
Christ." Church women gathered at the church for a baby shower
Thursday refused to talk about Miller and ushered a reporter out the
door.
It was there that Miller met Kontz and married him, and they began a
new life together near another cul-de-sac.
Lisa Word, 40, Kontz's former wife, said Miller and Kontz are both
very intelligent and "great people."
Cheshire said his client's faith keeps her going.
"Ann has a very strong Christian faith, and she married a man with a
very strong Christian faith, and together they're going to get through
this," Cheshire said.
As reporters occasionally knock on Miller's closed door and police
hint that they're about to make their next move, her neighbors, who
say they were taken aback after learning of her past, say they don't
know what to expect next.
Gordon said he met Miller only one time, when he was introduced by
Miller's next-door neighbor.
Gordon complimented her for having a dog so well-trained to stay in
her yard. Miller told him she "had to give him up," he said, because
she travels so much for work. Gordon said she and Kontz take good care
of their yard, working it together.
Maggie
>both Willard and Ann Miller had access to an arsenic
>compound at GlaxoSmithKline, the drug company where they worked
<snip>
>She worked for a while for Nancy Mullinix, an interior designer who
>Saturday said she preferred not to be associated with the case.
<snip>
>Gordon complimented her for having a dog so well-trained to stay in
>her yard. Miller told him she "had to give him up," he said, because
>she travels so much for work.
***Okay. She's a drug researcher, she's an interior designer and she's
a--what?--traveling salesman? Anyone know what her current job is?
Maggie
"You can't take your eyes off [it]. It's like Donald Trump's Hair." -- Dan
Neil
Patty
"Maggie" <maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC> wrote in message
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: mberger posted a news story:
: >both Willard and Ann Miller had access to an arsenic
: >compound at GlaxoSmithKline, the drug company where they worked
:
: <snip>
:
: >She worked for a while for Nancy Mullinix, an interior designer who
: >Saturday said she preferred not to be associated with the case.
:
: <snip>
:
: >Gordon complimented her for having a dog so well-trained to stay in
: >her yard. Miller told him she "had to give him up," he said, because
: >she travels so much for work.
:
: ***Okay. She's a drug researcher, she's an interior designer and she's
: a--what?--traveling salesman? Anyone know what her current job is?
:
: Maggie
No, but I wonder if she's a pharmaceutical salesperson. It doesn't seem
like they could live on his paycheck, music director for a small church
and guitarist for a Christian band.
tinydancer
"Sam22" <mber...@excite.com> wrote in message
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Great article, thanks. I thought she just had another baby though. I'm
surprised that wasn't mentioned in the story.
td
MH0426
I also can't help but think it grossly unfair that she has remarried so soon
and moved on with her life given that she was at least indirectly
responsible for two little girls being fatherless and Yvette Willard a
widow.
Christian, my fanny. Most of us in the Raleigh area don't think much of
her.
"tinydancer" <tinyd...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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tinydancer
"MH0426" <cati...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I wish they'd go ahead and arrest her already. She is so obviously
guilty.
> I also can't help but think it grossly unfair that she has remarried so
soon
> and moved on with her life given that she was at least indirectly
> responsible for two little girls being fatherless and Yvette Willard a
> widow.
>
> Christian, my fanny. Most of us in the Raleigh area don't think much of
> her.
I too am in the Raleigh area, and I'd say most of us wish that bitch would
get what's coming to her. IIRC, upon closer examination it was found that
Eric Miller had been slowly poisoned over many months and only the last two
'events', the night out bowling with Willard, and his last dinner fixed by
Ann, resulted in such a significant result. It would seem to me that the
fact that he was poisoned over such a prolonged period of time, a
circumstantial case could be built that no one but his wife had that
constant connection to him. The same wife who also had access to arsenic at
her place of employment. The fact that she hired Joe Cheshire so quickly
speaks volumes.
td
Robert Lee
news:IzJuc.22896$3X4....@bignews5.bellsouth.net:
> Great article, thanks. I thought she just had another baby though.
> I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the story.
I still have no idea how this woman has been able to avoid being
questioned by the police, except once and briefly. The spouse should be
the first suspect. She had access to arsenic at work. She had it in her
possession at work. The only people allowed to visit her husband in the
hospital, where he recieved his fatal dose, were family members. Female
murderers like poison. She fucking did this. The dead guy may have been
an accomplice, but...what the hell's she doing running around, getting on
with her life, with a whole buttload of people covering for her, and not
even being named as a suspect or questioned seriously in the last three
years?
Man, I'd be pissed if I were a member of the dead man's family.
--
--Robert
"I did once get him to admit the beauty of Bembo," he adds, "a serif."
Maggie
>news:IzJuc.22896$3X4....@bignews5.bellsouth.net:
>
>> Great article, thanks. I thought she just had another baby though.
>> I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the story.
>
>I still have no idea how this woman has been able to avoid being
>questioned by the police, except once and briefly. The spouse should be
>the first suspect. She had access to arsenic at work. She had it in her
>possession at work. The only people allowed to visit her husband in the
>hospital, where he recieved his fatal dose, were family members. Female
>
>murderers like poison. She fucking did this. The dead guy may have been
>
>an accomplice, but...what the hell's she doing running around, getting on
>
>with her life, with a whole buttload of people covering for her, and not
>
>even being named as a suspect or questioned seriously in the last three
>
>years?
***The cops *want* to question her, but she won't talk to them. It's her right
not to speak with them and she's been very smart to refuse. That may be the
only thing that's kept her out of jail these past few years.
>
>Man, I'd be pissed if I were a member of the dead man's family.
***Yep.
tinydancer
"Robert Lee" <cranch...@earthpiddlydiddlydoolink.poop.net.peepee> wrote
in message news:Xns94FA7F44324...@207.217.125.206...
> "tinydancer" <tinyd...@nowhere.com> wrote in
> news:IzJuc.22896$3X4....@bignews5.bellsouth.net:
>
> > Great article, thanks. I thought she just had another baby though.
> > I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the story.
>
> I still have no idea how this woman has been able to avoid being
> questioned by the police, except once and briefly.
Because she hired herself Joe Cheshire, the high profile attorney of the
guilty in our area. And it wasn't discovered until after Miller's death
that arsenic was involved. I don't know if he wasn't tested for poisons
immediately. IIRC they were focussing on something he could've gotten
exposed to in his work as an AIDS researcher.
The spouse should be
> the first suspect. She had access to arsenic at work. She had it in her
> possession at work. The only people allowed to visit her husband in the
> hospital, where he recieved his fatal dose, were family members.
I believe he received his fatal dose at home. His condition improved a bit
after his first admission to the hospital. The 'bowling incident'. Miller
was released from the hosptial, went home with his wife, and then had a
'relapse'. It's always been reported locally that 'miller fell sick once
again, after eating a meal prepared by his wife.'
Female
> murderers like poison. She fucking did this. The dead guy may have been
> an accomplice, but...what the hell's she doing running around, getting on
> with her life, with a whole buttload of people covering for her, and not
> even being named as a suspect or questioned seriously in the last three
> years?
That's why this case has stuck in my 'craw' since it happened. She is so
obviously guilty. And everytime I see video footage of some reporter
chasing after her with a microphone, she looks so damn self-assured and
snooty I'd like to bitch slap her.
Plus the last I heard, she's made it difficult to near impossible for Eric
Miller's parents and family to see their granddaughter, his only child.
td
Patty
"Maggie" <maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC> wrote in message
: >"tinydancer" <tinyd...@nowhere.com> wrote in
: >news:IzJuc.22896$3X4....@bignews5.bellsouth.net:
: >
: >> Great article, thanks. I thought she just had another baby though.
: >> I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the story.
: >
: Robert said:
: >I still have no idea how this woman has been able to avoid being
: >questioned by the police, except once and briefly. The spouse should be
: >the first suspect. She had access to arsenic at work. She had it in her
: >possession at work. The only people allowed to visit her husband in the
: >hospital, where he recieved his fatal dose, were family members. Female
: >
: >murderers like poison. She fucking did this. The dead guy may have been
: >
: >an accomplice, but...what the hell's she doing running around, getting on
: >
: >with her life, with a whole buttload of people covering for her, and not
: >
: >even being named as a suspect or questioned seriously in the last three
: >
: >years?
:
: ***The cops *want* to question her, but she won't talk to them. It's her right
: not to speak with them and she's been very smart to refuse. That may be the
: only thing that's kept her out of jail these past few years.
:
: Maggie
:
Yeah but with people like her we wouldn't have Law & Order.
Robert Lee
news:HYLuc.21163$ff2....@bignews4.bellsouth.net:
> I believe he received his fatal dose at home. His condition improved
> a bit after his first admission to the hospital.
I read that the best estimate was that he was dosed at the hospital,
following the botched earlier attempt, but maybe I read wrong.
Robert Lee
news:HYLuc.21163$ff2....@bignews4.bellsouth.net:
> Plus the last I heard, she's made it difficult to near impossible for
> Eric Miller's parents and family to see their granddaughter, his only
> child.
Of course she has. Grrr.
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Travis McGee
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I wonder what happened to their daughter she must be 18 now. I hope life is treating her well