Sharee Miller

Infobox Criminal
subject_name = Sharee Paulette Miller


date_of_birth = Birth date and age|1971|10|13|mf=y
place_of_birth = Flint, Michigan
charge = First degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder
penalty = Life in prison
status = Imprisoned
spouse = Bruce Miller (1999-November, 8 1999; deceased)
Michael Denoyer (April 15, 2008-present)
children= 3

Sharee Paulette Miller (Kitley) (born October 13, 1971), is serving a life sentence in the United States for plotting the murder of her husband in an internet chatroom with her online lover.

Early life

Sharee Kitley survived a tough childhood and moved out by the age of 16. As a child she lived in a single trailer home in a working class neighborhood. By the age of 19 she was a single mother with an abusive ex-husband. Two more divorces yielded two more children. Sharee was close to living on the streets until in 1997 when she took a bookkeeping job at B&D Auto Salvage where she met her soon to be husband Bruce Miller a hardworking man and he was also single. Sharee and Bruce married around the spring of 1999. To Sharee it was a dream come true. Friends and family members of Bruce were getting worried that his wife was only taking advantage of his generosity and money. But not for long soon, Sharee would be making some money of her own. Sharee began selling Mary Kay cosmetics and started getting credit cards under her name and spending them to the max unlike her other marriages. In July 1999 Bruce planned to go to a NASCAR race and suggested that Sharee take a vacation or a getaway with her girlfriends. While online she was looking online at vacations in Reno and stumbled upon something that would change her life forever...adult chat rooms. One day chatting as screen name “iwanttobelaid” Sharee met an AOL user with screen name “renodudes” they immeditaley clicked. Concerned that his wife sepend too much time on the internet, Bruce checked out her computer one day when she was out of the house and found her chats with “renodudes” and was appalled of it. Bruce confronted Sharee about the internet chats and told him they were harmless flirtations and told him she had no intention hooking up with her online friend. Sharee told Bruce that she would visit Reno regulary to attend upcoming Mary Kay conventions for business. He didn’t allow it because she thought she would meet her online friend but she kept fighting with him until he allowed her to go to Reno. He got used to her visiting Reno and when at home she would go online and chat with her online boyfriend.

Murder

On the night of November 8, 1999, it was 8 P.M. and Bruce was late from work and Sharee began to worry. She called her brother-in-law Chuck and his wife Judy to tell him that he was late from work. They drove out to B&D Auto Salvage and his car was there. Everything seemed to be okay until Chuck and Judy saw Bruce behind the counter on the floor covered in blood. Chuck’s wife Judy hollered his name to wake him up and that didn’t work so she checked for a pulse and there was none and he wasn’t breathing either so she called 911. Chuck and Judy believed that Bruce was a heart attack victim and fell to the floor and bumped his head. But the cops saw that Bruce was a murder victim other than a heart attack victim. He was shot in the upper chest area and police alleged that it was a robbery gone badly. Later that night the Bruce was found by his brother and sister-in-law, police informed Sharee about the news of her husband and she was upset about her husband. But investigators noticed bizarre behavior from Sharee. Two days after Bruce’s murder that she was dancing in a bar in Otisville, Michigan in which Sharee was not a grieving woman. Two weeks after the murder she had a live in boyfriend. With no evidence the case was closed until February 2000, a former cop named Jerry Cassaday had committed suicide. They had found a briefcase full of evidence saying he had killed Bruce Miller and why he did it. It was because Sharee had told him to. In the briefcase it showed the online chats he had had with Sharee. Jerry Cassaday was the user of screen name “renodudes”. While investigators searched Jerry’s apartment they found videos of Sharee filing herself and she also told Jerry that she was pregnant by him with twins. But that her husband had beaten her so bad that she had to get and abortion. The cops had finally found the E-mails and instant messages that were the blueprints to Bruce Miller’s murder. Cassaday thought that he’d be with Sharee after Bruce was out of the picture. Sharee told Jerry about her other boyfriends and told him she was no longer interested in him. Jerry would do anything for Sharee even murder and after he was so distraught by what she had told him, he couldn’t live with himself anymore so her committed suicide. On February 22, 2000 after Sharee was coming home from Reno, the police picked her up at Bishop International Airport and was charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Trial and incarceration

After her arrest in February 2000 she was held without bail until her trial. On December 12, 2000 the State of Michigan v. Sharee Miller trial began and her case made not only local news but national headlines. To Sharee, Jerry Cassaday was her stooge and fool. According to the prosecution Sharee wanted Bruce dead for his money and that a divorce would not have given her the big package. Sharee was really hoping to go home for Christmas and it took two days for the jury to deliberate. On December 22 they jury found Sharee Miller guilty on all charges. On Jan. 29, 2001, the Genesse County Circuit Court Judge Judith Fullerton sentenced Miller to life in prison for the conspiracy to murder charge, and 54 to 81 years for first-degree murder. She is serving her term at Robert Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth, Michigan outside of Detroit. Sharee still maintains her innocence and has filed an appeal to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Her mother currently has custody of her three children. The earliest Miller is up for parole is 2055. [ [http://www.courttv.com/trials/taped/miller/background.html “Mich. v. Miller: Sex, lies and murder”] CourtTV]

Recent events

On April 15, 2008 Sharee Miller married Michael Denoyer, 56, but in prison. Denoyer was familiar with her past, although she makes it a point not to discuss the case with anyone. But she said she wondered why anyone would want to marry her as it won't be a traditional marriage. She met Denoyer when he visited the Robert Scott prison in November. Her fellow inmate in prison Toni Cato Riggs decided that her husband is the real deal. Denoyer said it was Miller's eyes, and a loneliness that surrounded her, that attracted him to her when he first saw a profile of her case last summer on the Oxygen Channel's true crime series Snapped. Denoyer wrote Miller a short note in July letting her know he was there if she needed a friend. The couple has written almost daily since. Miller has still maintained her innocence and has appealed the conviction.She credits mental health staff at the prison. In prison she was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and other mental health illnesses. She also claims that she wants to give back to the people she had selfishly taken from. [ [http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/index.ssf/2008/03/sharee_miller_in_prison_in_the.html "Sharee Miller, in prison in the death of her husband, to marry again -- behind bars"] mlive.com]

In August of 2008 a federal court judge overturned her conviction and ordered that she receive a new trial. The judge found that the suicide note from Cassady should not have been admitted. [http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/index.ssf/2008/08/new_trial_ordered_for_sharee_m.html]

In popular culture

The trial made national headlines; a television movie produced by Lifetime Television called "Fatal Desire" starring Eric Roberts and Anne Heche was based on the Sharee Miller case. Miller’s life was profiled on the Oxygen Channel's true crime series "Snapped". The case was the subject of a book, "Fatal Error", by Mark Morris and Paul Janczewski. ["Fatal Error", ISBN 0786015241]

References

External links

* [http://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/movies-based-on-true-crimes-fatal-desire-based-on-the-murder-of-bruce-miller-110899-flint-mi/ Movies Based on True Crimes: Fatal Desire [based on the murder of Bruce Miller 11/08/99 Flint, MI]