State v. Miller

On October 12, 1982 at approximately 9:30 p.m., the Portage County Sheriffs Department received a phone call from appellant, Michael Miller (appellant), reporting a suicide at 1186 Heartwood Circle, Suffield, Ohio. After responding to the call, the detectives, upon their arrival at the scene, found one Harriet Pletcher lying on the bathroom floor, with a handgun in her right hand, shot once in the face. Appellant, who had been living with the decedent, was present when the officers arrived. Believing the circumstances of the situation to be suspicious in nature, and that appellant might have…