“I remember talking to her that day,” Helen Standifer, mother of Lee Standifer shared. “She must have just met him, but she didn’t mention him. She just chit-chatted, the way girls do.” It was on May 20, 1981 that the 23-year-old Tennessee woman (who was reportedly mentally disabled) would accompany Miller on a date and meet her death by the end of it. According to The Tennessean, Lee was found brutally beaten and stabbed to death by authorities in wooded area outside of Knoxville.
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The New York Post reports that Miller blamed his actions on a history of physical, mental, and sexual abuse by his parents. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t enough to sway the jury in his favor some three decades ago when he was swiftly delivered the death penalty for the brutal murder of Lee Standifer. “It’s taken so long, and I just want it to be finished,” Helen said shortly before her daughter’s killer was put to death in 2018 (per Independent Mail).
