"I should have killed him too" | CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL KILLER | Joseph D. Miller

Harrisburg, PA - A convicted serial killer serving life in prison for the murders of three women has admitted in court that he killed two other women three decades ago.

Joseph D. Miller, 51, pleaded guilty Friday in Dauphin County Court to the first-degree murders of Kelly Ann Ward in February 1986 and Jeanette Thomas in January 1990.

Judge Andrew Dowling accepted the guilty pleas and sentenced Miller to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment to be served consecutively to the other life terms he’s serving.

Prosecutors charged Miller with Ward’s death in April. Investigators had been unable to identify her remains until 2014, when DNA testing at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia concluded bone samples matched a sample provided by Ward’s family.

Ward, of Harrisburg, was reported missing in 1986. Her remains were found in February 1997 in a wooded area along Chambers Hill Road in Swatara Township, near a landfill where investigators in August 1992 had found the remains of two other victims; Selina Franklin and Stephanie McDuffey.

Miller, formerly of Steelton, told police in April that he had sex with Ward and Thomas, killed them during arguments over money, and buried their bodies in makeshift graves. District Attorney Ed Marsico released a video of the confession on Friday.