Rick Tucker
May 9, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
PARIS, Mo. — Lyle Miller proclaimed his innocence for more than three years for his involvement in the death of Betty Hayes, the 88-year-old woman whose body was wrapped in 9-gauge wire, attached to a cement block and found in a pond on Miller’s property in Madison, Mo., in December 2021. John Moyer, who had…
Read Full Article March 20, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
PARIS, Mo. — Closing arguments in the Lyle Miller first-degree murder trial in Monroe County Circuit Court are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday. The prosecution rested its case early Wednesday afternoon, and the defense only called one witness before resting. Miller testified before Judge Rick Tucker that he was waiving his right to…
Read Full Article March 19, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
PARIS, Mo. — Miranda Loesch with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office told the seven-woman, five-man jury for the Lyle Miller first-degree murder trial that Miller, a hired hand at Betty Hayes’ cattle farm, admitted he wrapped her body in 9-gauge wire, attached it to a cement block and threw her body in a pond on…
Read Full Article March 16, 2025 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
PARIS, Mo. — The first-degree murder trial for a Madison man accused of killing an 88-year-old woman in 2021 will begin Monday morning in the Monroe County Circuit Courthouse in Paris. Lyle Miller, 66, allegedly admitted to a witness he struck 88-year-old Betty L. Hayes of Holliday, Mo., in the head and placed her body in…
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