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Category:
Humor
Publisher: Mark C Sutton
Type: Fiction
Pages: 253
Copyright: Nov 22, 2014
Price: $3.90 (eBook)
This time, the hunter becomes the hunted...
Psychopathic pensioner, Brian Miller, returns in this sequel to the original 'Grandad Miller, Serial Killer' novel. With a bad back, clicking hip, and knackered knackers, Brian faces a new set of deadly and disturbing challenges, including an organised gang intent on claiming the bounty put on his head, a sadistic female serial killer with a passion for murdering elderly men, a vindictive woman whose main hobby involves leaving poo-filled parcels outside people's caravans, and, of course, a dodgy politician driven by greed and corruption.
'The Return of Grandad Miller, Serial Killer' is a completely revised and re-written novel incorporating the following short books that were previously published on Amazon:
The Return of Grandad Miller, Serial Killer - Part One: Manhunt
The Return of Grandad Miller, Serial Killer - Part Two: Hell-Ride
The Return of Grandad Miller, Serial Killer - Part Three: The End
Grandad Miller, Serial Killer - Murder on Skerrow Hill
Warning: Contains very strong language and violence, and thus not suitable for minors.
Excerpt
Extended Article from ‘The Exington and Milford Evening Standard’, August 17th 2023…
Brian Miller and The Exington/ Merivale Serial Killings, Ten Years On; Rumours, Myths and Lies.
Whilst the world at large generally regards Brian Miller, the man almost certainly responsible for the Exington/ Merivale serial murders a decade ago, as dead, he has certainly not been forgotten. Indeed, his story has quickly became the stuff of legend. The fact that Brian Miller’s body remains undiscovered serves only to add a delicious layer of mystery to the case. It has also led to many different myths, rumours, even conspiracy theories, in the years that have followed since Brian Miller’s supposed death. Whilst most of these have been easily dismissed over the past ten years, one particularly persistent story that was, for a while, in circulation, actually forced the Exington Constabulary to re-examine all of the circumstances surrounding Miller’s alleged demise, by way of an internal enquiry. Its findings, after a lengthy investigation, was that Brian Miller had indeed perished on that fateful day in the summer of 2013, his body being carried first south, most probably by the strong currents that were prevalent in that particular part of the English Channel, and then west, out towards the Atlantic Ocean, where it was lost forever. There was no factual, documentary evidence that could be produced in order to prove that Brian Miller had somehow survived. Conversely, others continue to argue the point that there is no factual, documentary evidence to prove that Brian Miller died, either.
The rumour that had led to the internal enquiry and review of the Brian Miller case first began to gather pace around three or four months after his alleged death. A former, anonymous member of a gang, ‘The South Coast Viper’s - now apparently defunct - sold his story to a national newspaper, claiming that members of the criminal organisation had discovered, by chance, that Miller was alive and hiding out in their area; the gang decided to attempt to snare him in order to claim the considerable amount of reward money that had been offered for the wanted man’s capture. According to the anonymous source, the attempt ultimately failed, and had claimed the lives of a number of gang members, including, if the story was to be believed, one of its co-founders and leaders, Paul Velida, a half-Italian with suspected, but unproven, links to the Mafia.
What initially made the authorities sit up and take notice, upon hearing the story that was being told by the former gang member, was knowledge of an earlier incident that, possibly, could be seen as a partial corroboration of what the source was saying; several months earlier, Paul Velida’s body had been discovered in highly unusual circumstances; he had been found in a burned-out vehicle, later identified as one that belonged to him, at a car and motorbike racing track known locally as ‘Luxington Circuit’, some fifty miles north of Exington. Paul Velida had been murdered, and in an exceptionally cruel manner; an unknown person, or persons, had bound Velida to the steering wheel of the car, which had then deliberately been set alight. Autopsy results suggested the Paul Velida was conscious when the car had been set on fire. It was a killing that bore striking resemblances to one of Miller’s earlier victims, Richard Montgomery, who had been dispatched in the same manner, except this time in the serial killer’s own allotment shed.
Armed with suspicions concerning Brian Miller’s supposed involvement in the death of Paul Velida, Exington police attempted to re-evaluate the case, but investigators were generally met with a wall of stony silence from members of The South Coast Vipers, not to mention other potential witnesses. In addition, and at the same time, another story, more compelling and less far-fetched emerged, of a power struggle that had been taking place within the gang’s ranks and which had been threatening to tear the criminal organisation apart. Investigating officers concluded that Paul Velida’s death was almost certainly a consequence of internal disorder within The South Coast Vipers, and that any suggested link to Brian Miller was just fanciful speculation borne out of the co-incidental similarity between Velida’s murder and that of one of Miller’s earlier victims.
There are a number of other mysteries concerning the Brian Miller case that, to this day, remain unresolved. For instance, in 2015, the bodies of two young women were found buried in a field near Brentboro. Panic once again began to rise in the locale; Brian Miller had not only lived for many years in Brentboro, but he had killed there too. Indeed, it was his favoured hunting ground. With the discovery of the two bodies, many assumed the worst; Brian Miller was alive, and had resumed his campaign of terror against the residents of Brentboro. However, authorities were quick to point out that the killings did not bear the usual Brian Miller hallmark; many, though not all, of his murders were acts of petty revenge against people that he knew. In this instance, there was never the slightest indication that Miller knew, on a personal level, either of the two girls who had been murdered, even though one of them, Leslie Browden, lived in the same road as Miller’s son, George. This, the authorities insisted, was pure co-incidence, also adding that they possessed other evidence, the nature of which was never disclosed, that appeared to rule Brian Miller out completely as a suspect. The case remains unsolved, and the killer has never been found.
During the period when Brian Miller was on the run from the police, hiding out on the outskirts of Merivale city centre, he carried out at least a further five horrific murders, and was also involved in a serious assault on an investigating police detective, Warren Harper. In this sub-series of killings, Miller was joined by an accomplice, a young, former prostitute, drug-addict and vagrant called Suzanne Kerry Painter, who was in her early twenties at that time. Following the assault on Detective Harper, Painter was apprehended and quickly confessed to her part in the murders. She was committed to stand trial whilst Miller remained at large, still on the run. However, Miller contacted the police and struck a deal with them; he offered to give himself up on condition that they let his former accomplice, who was believed to have played a secondary part in the murders, walk free. In a move that was later widely criticised during the official inquiry into the Brian Miller case, the police pretended to go along with the murderer’s request, and granted Suzanne Painter her freedom (whilst keeping the young woman under close surveillance - or so they had planned). However, a series of blunders on behalf of the authorities allowed Painter to disappear, and she has never been seen since, despite an Interpol notice being placed on her that remains in force to this day.
Where is Suzanne Kerry Painter today? One theory is that she, too, was murdered by Brian Miller, shortly before his suicide. However, this appears to contradict the official opinion that Miller actually cared very much for his young accomplice, taking her under his wing and protecting Suzanne during their time together whilst hiding out in the slums and derelict buildings that skirted the edge of Merivale city centre. Indeed, by her own admission, two of the killings that she and Miller committed were in revenge for the ill-treatment that Suzanne had earlier received at the hands of the victims. Another, more outlandish theory, is that Brian Miller and Suzanne Painter fled the country, married, and settled down to begin a new life together, incognito.
In 2019, an investigative journalist, Kim Joyce, alleged that she had located and interviewed Miller and Painter, who were now living a care-free existence in a remote area of New Zealand. Joyce was hauled in for questioning by the police, whose case-files on Brian Miller and Suzanne Painter remained open, and the journalist admitted to fabricating the whole story in order to pave way for a book that she was hoping to write on the case. Joyce was ultimately sacked from the newspaper that she worked for, and has since vanished into obscurity.
One preposterous theory that has gathered ground over recent years is that Brian Miller was NOT the Exington/ Merivale serial killer, and that he was merely (and quite literally, given the nature of his demise) the ‘fall guy’, used as a ‘patsy’ in order for the authorities to cover up the identity of the real murderer, whose identity was getting very close to being revealed. Quite who the actual killer was has never been explicitly stated (probably through fear of the libel and slander laws) by those perpetuating the theory, though popular candidates include a prominent politician, the head of a regional police force, and even a member of the royal family. Obviously, these ludicrous theories are nothing more than echoes of the infamous ‘Jack the Ripper’ murders that occurred in Victorian London, in which similar such prominent figures of the establishment were credited, wrongly, as being responsible for the killings.
Of course, some of the mysteries surrounding the Brian Miller case are firmly rooted in cold, hard facts. Brian Miller’s estranged second wife, Lydia, notoriously…
The imposter smiled to himself; he loved a good story or two. Especially when they were nothing but falsities.
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