3 weeks, 3 days ago by Scott Hardy
Lyle Miller will now go on trial March 17
A Madison, Missouri man, charged with the 2021 death of a Monroe County woman, has had his trial delayed to next year.
A hearing was held Friday in Monroe County Circuit Court on a motion filed in August by prosecutors with the Missouri Attorney General's office. They asked for a delay in the trial of Lyle Miller. He was set to have a five-day trial starting December 2nd, but that's been delayed to March 17th. The motion says that an officer from the Missouri State Highway Patrol who was set to testify would be out of the country in early December. Miller’s facing one count each of 1st Degree Murder and evidence tampering. Miller’s charged in the death of 88-year-old Betty Hayes. She had been missing since December 2021, before her body was found in July. Miller allegedly killed Hayes by hitting her once on the head, and then dumped her body in a pond located on land he owns. Prosecutors say in court documents that Hayes’s throat was also cut. Miller told a witness in April 2023 that he killed Hayes because he had done work for her, and she hadn't paid him.
Miller's being held in the Randolph County Jail without bond.
