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HOLLIDAYSBURG — A retired state police investigator told a Blair County jury Thursday that officers took about three months to pursue information before filing charges against Paul Aaron Ross of Hollidaysburg in the 2004 death of Tina S. Miller.
“There was no rush to judgment here,” said Dave Aiello, who testified about the efforts he and fellow investigators made to identify who killed Miller, a 26-year-old Hollidaysburg woman whose body was found June 27, 2004, partly submerged in a tributary to the lake at Canoe Creek State Park.
Aiello said 92 days passed between Miller’s death and the filing of first-degree murder and related sexual assault charges against Ross. During that time, officers interviewed 220 people, collected 233 pieces of evidence, arranged for analysis of 61 pieces of evidence and handled 18 searches, including 10 searches for which they obtained warrants, he said.