Sisters Britny Haarup, 19, and Ashley Key 22, lived together in a house in Edgerton, Missouri, 35 miles north of Kansas City. Ashley Key, the mother of a 4-year-old girl, had been running with a bad crowd and had sought her sister's help in turning her life around. On Friday afternoon, July 13, 2012, Britny Haarup's fiancee, Matt Meyers, stopped by the house and found the sisters missing. Haarup's six month and 18-month-old daughters were alone in the same crib. Because Haarup would never leave the infants alone in the house Meyers suspected foul play. Haarup had left her cellphone and purse behind, and in the living room Meyers found Ashley's handbag and a pair of her shoes. And most troubling of all, a comforter on the couch contained blood stains. (Police later learned that several guns had been taken from the house.)
On the afternoon of the disappearances, deputies with the Platte County Sheriff's Office spoke to witnesses who had seen a white, 2002 Dodge Ram pickup truck parked near the sister's house at 9:30 that morning. The next day, a deputy found a truck meeting that description several miles from the sister's house parked near the Platte-Clay County line. The vehicle, registered to a Clifford D. Miller, bore no evidence of a crime, inside or out.
On Sunday morning, July 15, 2012, Platte County detectives questioned Clifford D. Miller as "a person of interest" at his girlfriend's house in Parksville, a suburb of Kansas City. Miller, from Trimble, Missouri in southwest Clinton County, confessed to murdering Haarup and Key and agreed to lead the police to the field where he had disposed of their bodies. Following his confession the officers took Miller into custody.
The sisters' bodies were recovered that Sunday and transported to the Medical Examiner's Office in Jackson County for identification and autopsy.
When interrogated, Miller said he had been smoking methamphetamine when he drove his 2002 Dodge pickup to the sisters' house in Edgerton. He was acquainted with Britny Haarup, and while the two had not been romantically involved, he was determined to have sex with her that day. When he walked into the dwelling through the unlocked front door, Ashley Key, asleep on the sofa, woke up and confronted him. Miller punched her several times, struck her in the head with a hard object from the coffee table, then smothered her with the comforter on the couch.
Still thinking about having sex with Haarup, Miller walked into her bedroom. When Britny screamed he hit her with a blunt object, then smothered her with a pillow.
After murdering the sisters in their own home, Clifford Miller remained on the scene and smoked more meth. High on the drug, he wrapped his victims' bodies in bedsheets and carried them to his pickup truck. After depositing the murdered women in a field several miles from their house he abandoned his vehicle and called his girlfriend in Parksville.
The Platte County prosecutor charged Clifford Miller with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, he faced a sentence of life without parole or death by injection. He was incarcerated in the Platte County Jail under $500,000 cash-only bond.
In April 2013, Clifford Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. The judge sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole.
On the afternoon of the disappearances, deputies with the Platte County Sheriff's Office spoke to witnesses who had seen a white, 2002 Dodge Ram pickup truck parked near the sister's house at 9:30 that morning. The next day, a deputy found a truck meeting that description several miles from the sister's house parked near the Platte-Clay County line. The vehicle, registered to a Clifford D. Miller, bore no evidence of a crime, inside or out.
On Sunday morning, July 15, 2012, Platte County detectives questioned Clifford D. Miller as "a person of interest" at his girlfriend's house in Parksville, a suburb of Kansas City. Miller, from Trimble, Missouri in southwest Clinton County, confessed to murdering Haarup and Key and agreed to lead the police to the field where he had disposed of their bodies. Following his confession the officers took Miller into custody.
The sisters' bodies were recovered that Sunday and transported to the Medical Examiner's Office in Jackson County for identification and autopsy.
When interrogated, Miller said he had been smoking methamphetamine when he drove his 2002 Dodge pickup to the sisters' house in Edgerton. He was acquainted with Britny Haarup, and while the two had not been romantically involved, he was determined to have sex with her that day. When he walked into the dwelling through the unlocked front door, Ashley Key, asleep on the sofa, woke up and confronted him. Miller punched her several times, struck her in the head with a hard object from the coffee table, then smothered her with the comforter on the couch.
Still thinking about having sex with Haarup, Miller walked into her bedroom. When Britny screamed he hit her with a blunt object, then smothered her with a pillow.
After murdering the sisters in their own home, Clifford Miller remained on the scene and smoked more meth. High on the drug, he wrapped his victims' bodies in bedsheets and carried them to his pickup truck. After depositing the murdered women in a field several miles from their house he abandoned his vehicle and called his girlfriend in Parksville.
The Platte County prosecutor charged Clifford Miller with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, he faced a sentence of life without parole or death by injection. He was incarcerated in the Platte County Jail under $500,000 cash-only bond.
In April 2013, Clifford Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. The judge sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Ok so although this story may be close to the truth you may want to check into a couple of your facts.
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DeleteThe pick up truck was not the killers. It was Matt Myers or Britnys. He walked to their house and waited outside until Matt Myers left for work to go inside.
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