Free Terror in East Lansing: The Tale of MSU Serial Killer Donald Miller by R. Barri Flowers

 
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    TABLE OF
CONTENTS
     
    Terror in East Lansing: The Tale of MSU
Serial Killer Donald Miller
    The Midwest Murders: Alton Coleman & Debra
Denise Brown – Bonus True Crime Story
    The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of
Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallegos – Bonus
Excerpts
    The Sex Slave Murders 3: The Horrific Tale
of Serial Killers Leonard Lake & Charles Ng – Bonus
Excerpts
    The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo
Family's Nightmare – Bonus Excerpts
    About the Author
     
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terror in east lansing
    The Tale of MSU Serial Killer Donald
Miller
     
    In the latter part of the 1970s, Michigan's
Big Ten school Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing was
the place to be for higher education, athletics, sexual
experimentation, keggers, smoking pot, and expressing oneself. The
school had a well-deserved reputation for partying. And MSU in the
1970s also turned out to be the place and time for a brutal serial
killer to emerge, one who would take aim at young women, sexually
assaulting them before violently ending their lives.
    Donald Miller was not just another serial
killer. The twenty-four-year-old graduate of MSU's renowned School
of Criminal Justice once seemed to be on track for a totally
different connection with the criminal justice system. But at some
point, destiny took a deadly turn, and Miller achieved the
distinction of becoming East Lansing's and MSU's only known serial
killer—a distinction the community would prefer to forget. But
Miller left a mark that seemingly makes such a thing impossible in
the halls of academia and the surrounding area.
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    Michigan State University's School of
Criminal Justice, founded in 1935, is the country's oldest
continuous program for granting degrees in criminal justice.
Originally known as the School of Public Administration and Public
Safety, it followed the "land-grant philosophy" established by
Michigan State Agricultural College. This philosophy is