Peer said investigators had suspects during their probe in 1974. “I think it’s fair to say we had a person of interest and still do,” he said, but they were never able to make an arrest. He wouldn’t say who it was.
Michael Arntfield, a former London police officer, now a Western University professor and the author of Murder City, which examined unsolved homicides in the London area from 1959 to 1984, said the re-examination of the Miller file is a sign that the police may have some new information “that has allowed them to earmark this investigation as one that offers a prospect of solvability.”
Arntfield said he hinted at Miller’s murder as a “personal cause homicide” in his book, meaning that the murderer was motivated by personal reasons that have to do with their relationship with the victim.
“The name is already in the box,” Arntfield said. “It means that the suspect was likely identified early on and . . . they weren’t able to conclusively link them to the crime at the time.”
