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Detectives approached Miller at his house on July 15, 2018, and asked him to come to talk with them at the police station. After advising him of his rights, investigators asked him if he knew why they wanted to talk to him. According to police, he replied, "April Tinsley." During an interview at the
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Tinsley's mother reported her daughter missing to the police when she did not arrive home for dinner that night. The initial search for Tinsley included 250 Fort Wayne police officers and 50 volunteers. A witness later reported seeing a white man in his 30s forcing a girl believed to be Tinsley into
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of a man's lower body. One of these notes read, "Hi honey... I been watching you....I am the same person that kidnapped an rape an kill april tinsley, ... You are my next victim....if you don't report this to police an if I don't see this in the paper tomorrow or on the local news...I will blow up
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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. Ninety members of the Fort Wayne community formed the volunteer group APRIL (Associated Parents Regional Independent
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April Tinsley's mother held a balloon launch at April's Garden on April 4, 2018. This service was in remembrance of her daughter and other child victims of violence. The following day, at Fairfield Elementary School, a pink magnolia tree and a bench were formally dedicated to April's memory. This
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created a profile of the suspect in 2009, describing him as a "Preferential Child Sex Offender", meaning "he has a long-term and persistent sexual desire for children." The profile described the murderer as a white male, then in his 40s through 50s, living or working in northeast Fort Wayne/Allen
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barn reading, "I kill 8 year old April Marie Tinsley," and "did you find the other shoe haha I will kill again." The message was written with crayons that were found near the barn. Investigators initially believed it could be connected to the murder of 7-year-old Sarah Jean Bowker, whose body was
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Officials charged him with murder, child molestation, and confinement, and he pleaded not guilty in a court hearing on July 19, 2018. On December 7, 2018, Miller changed his plea to guilty, saying he raped Tinsley and strangled her with his bare hands. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison: 50
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John Miller, who later pleaded guilty to murdering Tinsley, said he had planned to kidnap a child, but he had not seen April before abducting her. He said that he asked her to get into his car, and he took her to his trailer where he raped and killed her. At night, he took her body to a ditch.
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weekend in 2004, four notes were found in the Fort Wayne area that are believed to have been written by Tinsley's murderer. Three of these notes were left on girls' bicycles, and another one was left in a mailbox. Three notes were placed in plastic bags, along with used condoms and
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Two local radio stations established a reward fund on April 5, 1988. Additional funds were established for Tinsley's burial and her family. Tinsley's memorial service was held on April 8, 1988, at the Faith United Methodist Church, and she was buried in the Greenlawn Memorial Park.
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that aired on July 15, 2018, just hours after an arrest was made in the case. On October 26, 2018, the Indiana State Police honored three Fort Wayne investigators for helping authorities identify John D. Miller as a suspect in the Tinsley case.
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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. On April 26, 1988, police sent DNA samples of Tinsley and five suspects to a private lab in
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of Fort Wayne, construction started on a memorial dedicated to April's memory called "April's Garden". On July 28, 2018, a memorial walk starting at this garden was held in honor of April.
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in 1988. Her killer left several anonymous messages and notes in the Fort Wayne area between 1990 and 2004, openly boasting about April's murder and threatening to kill again.
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found on June 14, 1990, in Fort Wayne. Local and state police formed a homicide team in April 1991 to investigate Tinsley and Bowker's cases. On August 7, 1991, the FBI's
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On June 24, 2005, the Tinsley family held a press conference at the Allen County Courthouse asking for leads in the case. In June 2009, Indiana authorities asked the
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released a "Snapshot" composite sketch of the suspect based on information from his DNA. Police released an updated version of this sketch in early May 2016.
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League, or later Abduction Prevention Reconnaissance and Information League) on April 20, 1988, to help police solve cases involving missing children.
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In May 2019, nine investigators who had worked to secure the arrest and conviction of April's murderer became recipients of the
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police station, he confessed to the murder, saying he abducted Tinsley, raped her and choked her to death in his trailer.
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In May 2018, a Fort Wayne Police Department detective sent a sample of the suspect's DNA to the forensics company
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determined that, although Tinsley and Bowker's cases were similar, they were ultimately unrelated.
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covered the murder in an episode that aired in 2016. Tinsley's case was featured in an episode of
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narrowed down the list of suspects to two brothers, including 59-year-old John D. Miller of
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ran a segment on Tinsley's case and asked for tips. The investigative series
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detailing the conclusive identification of April Tinsley's murderer via
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A jogger found Tinsley's body on April 4, 1988, in a ditch just west of
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to identify the suspect's relatives. On July 2, 2018, the genealogist
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Greenlawn Memorial Park, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, U.S.
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Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998
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Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998
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April Tinsley was a member of the children's choir at the
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years for murder and 30 years for child molestation.
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List of punishments for murder in the United States
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Fort Wayne
Indiana
Asphyxiation
Spencerville, Indiana
41°03′45″N 85°13′45″W / 41.06250°N 85.22917°W / 41.06250; -85.22917
child murder
Fort Wayne, Indiana
kidnapped
raped
murdered
forensic genealogy
child molestation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
America's Most Wanted
Crime Watch Daily
The Genetic Detective
Investigation Discovery
Faith United Methodist Church
Good Friday
Spencerville, Indiana
strangled to death
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Allen County, Indiana
Message saying "I Kill 8 Year old April Marie Tisley I Will Kill Agin".
St. Joseph Township
St. Joseph Township
Behavioral Science Unit
Memorial Day

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