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Ohio Amish Mother Charged With Two Counts of Aggravated Murder in Atwood Lake Deaths

Investigators describe her actions as driven by a “spiritual delusion.”

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Overview

  • Ruth R. Miller, 40, is being held in a locked mental health facility and is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in New Philadelphia Municipal Court.
  • Additional counts include two charges of domestic violence and one charge of endangering children tied to her three older children.
  • Divers recovered 4-year-old Vincen Miller on Saturday and his father, 45-year-old Marcus J. Miller, on Sunday near a dock at Atwood Lake.
  • Sheriff Orvis Campbell says Miller told investigators she had “given her son to the Lord” and later drove a golf cart into the water with her three teenage children, who survived.
  • Autopsies by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner remain pending to determine the official cause and manner of both deaths.