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1968 Miller, Fred August 17,1968; Gooding County 66 YO
Topic Started: May 26 2011, 09:41 AM (423 Views)
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Fred D. Miller


Above: Miller, circa 1968


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: August 17, 1968 from Gooding County, Idaho
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: July 14, 1902
Age: 66 years old
Height and Weight: 5'10, 175 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Gray hair, blue eyes. Miller wears a partial set of dentures.


Details of Disappearance

Miller was last seen driving a white four-door 1960 Rambler in Gooding County, Idaho on August 17, 1968. He had two hitchhikers in the car with him at the time of his disappearance. He has never been heard from again. Police suspect Miller was taken against his will. Few details are available in his case.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Gooding County Sheriff's Office
208-934-4421



Source Information
Idaho Missing Person Clearinghouse
The Doe Network



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated September 27, 2005; distinguishing characteristics updated.

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DNA could be the decisive factor in solving the missing persons case involving Fred Miller. Miller of Hagerman has been missing since 1968

Missing may be found
The son of a Wendell farmer who disappeared 39 years ago hopes recent evidence will finally put his father to rest
By Cassidy Friedman
Times-News writer
WENDELL - A Wendell farmer walked out of a Hagerman bar 39 years ago and was never seen again.

Now the mystery of his disappearance may be solved. Police say a body discovered in 1972 in the woods of Coos County, Ore., could be Fred Miller.

His son, Dick, and his five siblings have never lost hope.

"I've been so excited so many times when old bodies were found," Miller said. "I've been through a thousand of these. But it didn't pan out."

This lead may not pan out, either. But he is determined to see it through, as is Gooding County Sheriff Shaun Gough, who has re-opened the investigation.

He said the similarities are uncanny:

The reconstructed skull of the body found in Oregon closely resembles a photo taken of Miller before he disappeared. Also matching are the age, weight, height, hat with hatband, leather belt buckled at 42 inches, a key ring with the letter "R", gray wool socks and tan leather work boots. Also, the year of death matches when Miller went missing.

What does not match, however, are dentures found on the body. Miller had some false teeth, but not a full set of dentures.

A DNA test will make the final determination, but could take several months.

The remains were found in 1972 off Highway 101 inside the city limits of Bandon, Ore. The skull contained two .22-caliber bullets.

In 2004, after the International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons had listed a possible match, Coos County investigators called Miller at his home. Miller called Gough. And Gough reopened the investigation.

Miller, 57, is the youngest son of the family. He lives outside Wendell with his wife, Cyndi. One of his sister's lives two houses down the road. Another four siblings live in Boise or out-of-state. Beneath a pair of headstones in the Wendell cemetery lies their mother, Bernice, who died nine years after her 66-year-old husband disappeared. Miller recalls the nightmares Bernice suffered. She died without answers. Her husband's name is inscribed on the second gravestone with no date for his death.

"It's something we've never been able to put to rest," Miller said. "Even though it's been 40 years, there are few days I'm not reminded of it."

To complete a DNA comparison, Gough needed DNA from a female relative of Fred Miller, specifically his niece.

A lab will cross that with a mitochondrial sample extracted from the skeleton.

"I've gone through so many different feelings," Dick Miller said. "Maybe he's alive. But by now he would be 105 so that's not realistic. I went through the anger stage at one point. I just want to put it to rest and have a funeral. But knowing what happens would probably be helpful."

Miller is used to disappointment.

In the 1980s, Gooding County Sheriff Robert Aja dredged the Snake River hoping to find Miller's 1960 white, four-door AMC Rambler. Then in the 1990s, Sheriff Jim Jax dug out a Gooding County backyard.

The man who may have poured Fred Miller his last drink is still alive, and still remembers that Saturday afternoon in 1968.

"I was one of the last people to see him," said Bill Wilson, owner of Wilson's Club in Hagerman. "His wife had poured his bottle of whiskey down the drain, so he came to get a drink that afternoon. As far as I know, he left alone."

Miller was last seen with two Idaho men - both are suspects Gough declined to identify.

Not all of the suspects are still alive, Gough added. A person of interest may also be held in an out-of-state prison.

"There's been a list of suspects since the year after I was born," said Gough, 39. "Some are dead. Some aren't."

Now he is waiting for the DNA results, hoping to put to rest a case that has haunted this rural county for almost 40 years.

"Everybody knew Fred," Gough said. "He wouldn't just disappear."

Cassidy Friedman covers crime and courts for the Times-News. He can be reached at (208)735-3241 or by e-mail at cfriedman@magicvalley.com.

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IDAHO MISSING PERSONS CLEARINGHOUSE



FRED D MILLER
LAST DATE OF CONTACT : 8/17/68

DOB : 7/14/02 HEIGHT : 5'10"
GENDER : MALE WEIGHT : 175 lbs
HAIR COLOR : GRAY EYE COLOR : BLUE
RACE : WHITE


CASE INFORMATION :
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SUBJECT WAS LAST SEEN IN THE COMPANY OF 2 HITCHHIKERS. SUBJECT WAS DRIVING A 1960, WHITE, 4-DOOR, RAMBLER, WITH IDAHO LICENSE NO. 2G 1488.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PERSON PLEASE CONTACT :
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GOODING CO SO 208 934-4421

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GOODING • Some cases may never be solved.

Gooding County Sheriff’s Office investigators fear that may be the case with several mysteries still in their hands. But the sheriff’s office isn’t giving up on these cold cases:

Rose Migdal

Wyoming woman Rose Migdal went missing near Gooding on Oct. 20, 1993.

Migdal’s vehicle was found, high-centered in the desert southeast of Gooding. But for years her remains were never located. Then in 1998, a sheepherder kicked what he thought was a soccer ball.

It turned out to be a skull, said Gooding County Sheriff Shaun Gough.

Migdal’s remains were discovered spread across an acre in the desert.

How she died remains a mystery. In 2009, investigators took another look at the case and checked out a hunch that Migdal was murdered for money.

“It was a lead that went nowhere,” Gough said.

For now, Gough said there’s nothing to show foul play might have been involved in her death.

“I think she high-centered her car in the desert, got mad and started walking and succumbed to the elements,” he said.

Fred Miller

According to the Idaho State Police Missing Persons Clearinghouse, Fred Miller’s disappearance is the oldest missing-person case in Idaho.

Miller was last seen at 8 p.m. on Aug. 16, 1968, according to the original police report, filed by then-Gooding Sheriff Bill Bunn. The report states Miller, an irrigator, didn’t show up for work the next day. His wife hadn’t seen him either. The sheriff’s office sent messages to police in every state to be on the lookout, the report states.

“Every sheriff since has worked on it,” Gough said.

In the 1980s, deputies dredged the Snake River below the Upper Salmon Dam in hopes of finding Miller’s 1960 white, four-door AMC Rambler.

“I was brand new at the time,” Gough said.

A decade later, deputies dug up a backyard in Gooding County. Neither search found anything.

In 2007, Miller’s families’ DNA was checked against a body found in Oregon in 1973. Still, no match.

The most recent development in the case happened less than a year ago, Gough said. In January, he got a call from a researcher in Texas who was working on matching DNA to unidentified bodies.

“She wanted to know if the Gooding sheriff’s office had any of Fred Miller’s DNA,” he said.

The office didn’t, but Gough offered to get a sample from Miller’s children.

“If a body turns up, they’ll be able to match,” he said.

Louis Neguelouart

Louis Neguelouart’s vehicle was impounded by the Nevada State Patrol when they found it abandoned 15 miles north of Las Vegas in Jan. 1986. Neguelouart himself has never been found.

According to a report, a wing window on the vehicle was punched out. The keys were inside, along with Neguelouart’s belongings, and nothing mechanically appeared to be wrong.

Neguelouart was last seen in Gooding on Jan. 12, 1986. His boss said he picked up his paycheck, but on Jan. 16, First Security Bank in Gooding told police Neguelouart’s account was overdrawn by $56.

“Several bodies have been found in Nevada but dental records never matched up,” Gough said.

Clues in the disappearance have been sparse.

“We don’t even know who to contact for DNA,” he said.

Unknown Victim

While many cases have few or no suspects, one in Gooding County has no known victim.

In 2000, convicted serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells admitted to killing a woman near Bliss, but no body was ever found, Gough said.

Sells also confessed to killing two people in Twin Falls County, among 61 killings nationwide in the late 1980s.

In March 2000, Texas Rangers brought Sells to the area in an attempt to locate a body, Gough said. Sells claimed he buried the woman south of Bliss, but in 1993 a landslide completely changed the landscape of the area.

“The whole mountain moved,” Gough said. “A huge area slid.”

Gough said he remembers the day Sells was brought in and the trip out to the site.

“He looked around and said ‘Well, this has all changed,’” Gough said. “We didn’t tell him about the landslide. We were like, wow, he’s been here.”
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