Man Charged in 1992 Murder-for-Hire Plot Against U.S. Army Soldier, Allegedly Organized by Victim's Abusive Partner

Mar. 15, 2025

Michelle Miller.Photo:Middlesex District Attorney’s Office

Middlesex District Attorney’s Office

A Massachusetts man was charged in a murder-for-hire plot that left a soldier dead in 1992 and remained unsolved for decades.

Michelle Miller, 29, a soldier in the United States Army, was found dead in the basement of a vacant apartment in Cambridge, Mass., two weeks after she was last seen alive, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office says.

Prosecutors charged 65-year-old Edward J. Watson with first-degree murder in connection with Miller’s 1992 death.

Watson is accused of killing Miller at the behest of her partner, Daniel J. Innis, who died in 2012 after he was sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison for an unrelated manslaughter charge.

Miller told a social worker that she intended to obtain a restraining order against Innis on July 28, 1992, Ryan says. The next day, she disappeared.

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It is not immediately clear if he has retained an attorney or entered a plea.

source: people.com