He died after being “physically corrected” after his mother, Diana May Rose (who later became Diana May Miller) and her boyfriend, William Edward Miler, had used “physical correction” on him while toilet training him. Metz referred to the transcript of the 1969 preliminary(The transcripts of her testimony at that municipal court hearing were made available only after several months of court proceedings and a Iowa Supreme Court ruling stating husbands and wives have no immunity of testimony in child abuse cases. From the Ottumwa Courier- January 17, 1970 at page 8:Des Moines County Attorney Alan Waples has filed notice in District Court at Burlington that he intends to fight a defense motion to suppress evidence in the murder case against 22-year-old William Edward Miler of Keokuk, a former Ottumwan. Bruises were found on the left and right side of the child’s forehead.He said the blunt-type injury “could have been the type injury received from a man’s fist,” and said unconsciousness would have been rendered “almost immediately.”Prosecution attorneys also introduced into evidence 17 slides of the bruises on theJohnson county medical examiner Dr. T. T. Bozek of Iowa City also testified the cause of death was a head injury. Second of all, Jeffrey’s surname was Rose, not Miler. Neither knew when the bruise was received, she said. And since you appear to be the only living person who knows exactly what happened, perhaps you can enlighten us now as to who was responsible, and exactly what they did.Also Diana, don’t you think that your children and grandchildren deserve to know the truth so that they can make *informed* decisions regarding who to allow their own children to have unsupervised contact with?This isn’t an unsolved murder.
Police say at 11:17 a.m., officials were called to an apartment in the 600 block of Maple Street to conduct a welfare check.
The bodies were found July 17 by officers sent to … He died about 1:30 pm Sunday. The child’s mother, then Diane Lee Rose, testified at a preliminary hearing April 17 in Burlington Municipal Court, after which Edwards was released.The July grand jury renewed the indictment against Miler, however, a few days after he and Miss Rose were married in Keokuk. He said a fall on a sharp instrument would “usually always leave some mark,” and he said there were no such marks on the head of Jeffrey. According to Thomas Dyer of Burlington, Iowa, a bridge foreman and pile driver for the Burlington Railroad, S.A. (Andy) Sawyer approached his crew in Creston at 6:00 a.m on the morning the murders were discovered. Megan Iowa March 31, 2019 February 23, 2020 8 Minutes. Doctors said Jeffery showed bruises about his head, genital organs, and buttocks. She said when she returned the child wasMrs. ... during court testimonies, though no solid evidence linked him to the crime. Someone tortured baby Jeffery to death, either William or Diana, or both of them.
He was last seen riding his blue GT bicycle, which was found June 9, 2015, and is in possession of the Burlington Police Department.James Keith Poggemiller, 62, was found dead Friday, May 24, 2019, inside his 1127 S. 13th Street home in Burlington, and officials are treating his death as suspicious.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western Illinois University at Macomb, Illinois. She survives.He lived in Hamilton, Illinois, for 22 years; in Solon, Iowa, from 1996 to 2009; and in Chariton for the last three years. Both also indicated the child had received the numerous bruises in from 12 to 48 hours before he was brought to the hospital. Burbridge; two brothers, Galen Miler, Jr. of Arizona and Roger Miler of Ottumwa, Iowa; his stepmother, Marylin Miler of Bloomfield, Iowa; and several brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.He was preceded in death by his parents, his grandparents, and a son in infancy, Jeffery J. Miler.My comments on the obituary are these: First of all, Jeffrey was not his son. Vernon, Iowa.In addition to his wife, Diana, he is survived by a son, William E. “Will” Miler, II of North Liberty, Iowa; a daughter, Melissa M. Burbridge (Jim) of Chariton, Iowa; three grandchildren, Grace Miler, Abigail Burbridge and A.J. They just determined foot found at lake west to be Steve’s.Good luck on finding anything on these people. Why would you think that is? The facts and circumstances surrounding the death are being investigated by the Burlington Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), and the Iowa DCI’s Criminalistics Laboratory team, Burlington Chief of Police Dennis Kramer said in a press release.If you truly do encourage thoughtful discussions that are respective of others please take the rantings of anon on Jeffrey Rose down! Jeffrey died in April 1969.
Miler said she was told by University hospitals officials that bleeding on the child’s brain was from a bruise on his forehead, but said she didn’t know how the child received the bruise.She said the child fell down quite often and said Miler guessed the child had fallen and struck his head. From the Burlington Hawkeye, June 17, 1971 at page 1:The mother of 19-month-old Jeffrey Rose, flatly denied Monday that William Miler ever showed dislike or jealousy for the child, or ever disciplined the child without her approval.Court resumed at 9 a.m. Monday after a weekend recess in the murder trial of Miler, 23, now of Keokuk, who was charged after the April 13, 1969, death of the Rose child. Desmond Waples said he was studying Sunday what additional charged should be filed against William Edward Milar, 21, of Ottumwa. From the Ottumwa Courier July 14, 1972, at page 3:Galen Miler Jr. and Donna Davis from California have been visiting in Ottumwa. The little boy died in Iowa City following brain surgery. Jeffrey“Bill was very good to Jeffy,” Mrs. Miler said. An autopsy ruled cause of death as undetermined.On May 13, 1978, the Burlington Police Department received a call and discovered the badly decomposed body of James A. Harsch in his trailer.Audrey Eileen Dill was reported missing to the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office in Burlington, Iowa, on August 18, 1978. The woman with him, 33-year-old Marlo Pilkington, of Fort Madison, died of methamphetamine and fentanyl intoxication. These are factual newspaper accounts from the beating death of your son.