He then confessed to the crimes, police said. [10]:125–6, Two local radio stations established a reward fund on April 5, 1988. He was charged with murder, child molesting and confinement. On the 30th anniversary of Tinsley's death, her mother Janet revealed what she wanted to know most from April's killer. He confessed soon after. [19], In April 2009, the television program America's Most Wanted ran a segment on Tinsley's case and asked for tips. [31] On December 7, 2018, Miller changed his plea to guilty, saying he raped Tinsley and strangled her with his bare hands. John D. Miller, 59, pleaded guilty Friday to murder and child molestation charges in the 1988 abduction and killing of of 8-year-old April Tinsley. An episode of The Genetic Detective (S01 E04 "The Deadly Playdate" 6/16/2020) featured how CeCe Moore of Parabon NanoLabs used genetic genealogy to find two brothers, one of whom must be the killer. Six weeks later, the company's lead researcher had narrowed the list of potential suspects to two brothers. On April 1, 1988, a Good Friday, she was playing with two of her friends and they were moving between houses. Her body was found three days later in a ditch about 20 miles away, but police could not find her killer. [27] On July 2, 2018, the genealogist CeCe Moore narrowed down the list of suspects to two brothers, including 59-year-old John D. Miller of Grabill, Indiana,[28][11] whose neighbors described him as secluded and often angry. [2], The early police investigation led authorities to a 34-year-old suspect, who was charged with child molestation in a separate case, but was acquitted of those charges the next month. He faces up to 391/2 years in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 15. An Allen County judge this week postponed Fincher's trial until July so doctors can provide reports on his sanity, court records show. He's now due to be sentenced Dec. 31 in Allen County Superior Court. The group had been hanging out at the home when Fincher came out of a bathroom firing a gun, investigators said. [13] Local and state police formed a homicide team in April 1991 to investigate Tinsley and Bowker's cases. Officials charged him with murder, child molestation, and confinement, and he pleaded not guilty in a court hearing on July 19, 2018. They have until Thursday to formally charge him with Tinsley's rape and murder. John D Miller confessed after 30-years to murdering and raping 6-yer-old April Tinsley. When Fort Wayne detectives found Miller and asked if he knew why they were there, Miller looked at the police and said, "April Tinsley," according to the affidavit. The Grabill man who killed April Tinsley in 1988 was moved Wednesday to a prison in New Castle. Initial tests didn't produce results, but the company offered to perform a new type of DNA testing more advanced than the traditional biometric match police labs typically use. The crime went unsolved for decades until Miller was arrested in July. Police arrested John D. Miller on Sunday and say he confessed to raping and strangling 8-year-old April Tinsley in 1988. [13][16], During the Memorial Day weekend in 2004, four notes were found in the Fort Wayne area that are believed to have been written by Tinsley's murderer. When the DNA collected from the trash matched the past samples, detectives went to Miller’s residence and he agreed to come to the Fort Wayne police department to talk, according to police. Since May, Parabon NanoLabs, where Moore works, has uploaded more than 140 crime scene DNA samples to GEDmatch and has gotten hits for more than half. Investigators say DNA evidence and genealogy databases helped them link John D. Miller, 59, to the crimes. Moore and her team of DNA sleuths first uploaded the suspect's DNA onto a public genetic database, GEDmatch.com, which found distant relatives in about eight hours. "[11] During an interview at the police station, he confessed to the murder, saying he abducted Tinsley, raped her, choked her to death in his trailer, sodomized her body, and dumped it.[30]. John Miller, 59, was arrested Sunday and later confessed to raping and killing April Tinsley in 1988, according to a police affidavit. [11], A jogger found Tinsley's body on April 4, 1988, in a ditch just west of Spencerville, Indiana. According to police, he replied, "April Tinsley. FORT WAYNE, Ind. Additional funds were established for Tinsley's burial and her family. [34] Miller's earliest possible release date is scheduled for July 15, 2058,[35] when he would be 99 years old. [9] The initial search for Tinsley included 250 Fort Wayne police officers and 50 volunteers. [20] The investigative series Crime Watch Daily covered the murder in an episode which aired in 2016. [29] The police found used condoms in Miller's trash, and collected DNA that matched the suspect's DNA. He pleaded guilty Dec. 7. [32] He was sentenced to 80 years in prison: 50 years for murder and 30 years for child molestation. [7] The report determined that she had been dead for about one or two days before she was discovered, and that she had been placed in the ditch four hours before this discovery. [42], National Association of Police Organizations, List of punishments for murder in the United States, "Indians Mom Remains Hopeful for Justice in 1988 Murder Case", "30 years later in Fort Wayne: Where is April Marie Tinsley's killer? [40][41], In May 2019, nine investigators who had worked to secure the arrest and conviction of April's murderer became recipients of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) national policing award. [2] On April 1, 1988, a Good Friday, she was playing with two of her friends and they were moving between houses. Police arrested John D. Miller on Sunday and say he confessed to raping and strangling 8-year-old April Tinsley in 1988. On December 21,[3] Miller was convicted and sentenced to 80 years in prison on the charges of child molestation (rape) and murder.[4]. Tinsley went back to retrieve her umbrella and then disappeared around 3:00 pm. 5 When asked to explain what happened to April, Miller replied, “I can’t,” according to police. Allen County jurors convicted a Monroeville man of raping a woman in June. [14] Investigators initially believed it could be connected to the murder of 7-year-old Sarah Jean Bowker, whose body was found on June 14, 1990, in Fort Wayne. John Miller WANE Tinsley's body was found in a ditch, about 20 miles from her Fort Wayne neighborhood, three days after she disappeared in April 1988. The judge ordered Miller held without bond as he gave prosecutors 72 hours to formally charge him. Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore, who appeared in the PBS show "Finding Your Roots," helped identify Miller as Tinsley's likely killer. [22], Soon after the murder, police released a composite sketch of the suspect based on the account of a person who said they saw Tinsley's kidnapper. Authorities found three notes claiming responsibility for the murder at three different addresses in 2004, according to police. "[23] The profile described the murderer as a white male, then in his 40s through 50s, living or working in northeast Fort Wayne/Allen County with a low to medium income. After advising him of his rights, investigators asked him if he knew why they wanted to talk to him. 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