Joseph Robert Miller
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Joseph Robert Tarczon was born on January 15, 1955, in Illinois, but was abandoned at an orphanage shortly after his birth.{{Cite news |last=Peter Kendall |date=January 29, 1994 |title=POLICE FEAR KILLER HAS KILLED AGAIN |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-01-29-9402020310-story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220612115939/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-01-29-9402020310-story.html |archive-date=June 12, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2022 |url-status=live }} A few years later, he was adopted by a married couple from [[Chicago]], the Millers, who changed his surname to match theirs. His adoptive parents proved to be very strict and frequently beat him, leading the young Miller to develop anger issues and engage in petty crime from an early age. |
Joseph Robert Tarczon was born on January 15, 1955, in Illinois, but was abandoned at an orphanage shortly after his birth.{{Cite news |last=Peter Kendall |date=January 29, 1994 |title=POLICE FEAR KILLER HAS KILLED AGAIN |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-01-29-9402020310-story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220612115939/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-01-29-9402020310-story.html |archive-date=June 12, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2022 |url-status=live }} A few years later, he was adopted by a married couple from [[Chicago]], the Millers, who changed his surname to match theirs. His adoptive parents proved to be very strict and frequently beat him, leading the young Miller to develop anger issues and engage in petty crime from an early age. |
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Between the late 1960s and 1977, he was arrested a total of 11 times on charges such as theft, [[carjacking]] and sexual assault, but would always get away with a short stint in prison after accepting [[Plea bargain|plea deals]] from the prosecutors. In the early 1970s, Miller left Chicago and lived in various locations including the cities of [[Bloomington, Illinois|Bloomington]] and [[Waukegan, Illinois|Waukegan]], and even the state of [[Virginia]]. By 1977, he had permanently settled in [[Skokie, Illinois|Skokie]], where he had married a local woman and worked as a pizza delivery man.{{Cite news |last=Thomas Powers |first=Ronald Koziol |date=November 5, 1977 |title=Man held in murders of prostitutes |pages=1 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79804307/ann-maxham-killer-held/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=June 13, 2022 |archive-date=June 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613192739/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79804307/ann-maxham-killer-held/ |url-status=live }} |
Between the late 1960s and 1977, he was arrested a total of 11 times on charges such as theft, [[carjacking]] and [[sexual assault]], but would always get away with a short stint in prison after accepting [[Plea bargain|plea deals]] from the prosecutors. In the early 1970s, Miller left Chicago and lived in various locations including the cities of [[Bloomington, Illinois|Bloomington]] and [[Waukegan, Illinois|Waukegan]], and even the state of [[Virginia]]. By 1977, he had permanently settled in [[Skokie, Illinois|Skokie]], where he had married a local woman and worked as a pizza delivery man.{{Cite news |last=Thomas Powers |first=Ronald Koziol |date=November 5, 1977 |title=Man held in murders of prostitutes |pages=1 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79804307/ann-maxham-killer-held/ |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=June 13, 2022 |archive-date=June 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613192739/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79804307/ann-maxham-killer-held/ |url-status=live }} |
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== First murders and trial == |
== First murders and trial == |
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