ingested a huge dose of arsenic in the two weeks before his death. in that two-week period, eric complained of severe symptoms on three separate occasions. once was at the bowling alley when eric was with derril willard. it s my opinion, very strong opinion, that derril willard had actually given eric a lethal dose of arsenic in that cup of beer that he served to him. interestingly, witnesses said derril knocked over eric s beer before he could finish it. i think that beer got spilled because derril willard did not want eric miller to die. i think derril willard was a good man. and i think that he got caught up in ann miller s web, if you will, and he realized what was happening and did not want to go through with that.
miller at the bowling alley. investigators searched willard s work computer and phone records. they also searched ann miller s. they found ample evidence of the affair. from the middle of october until eric s death, she s got like 500 cell phone calls to derril willard s desk, to his house, or to his cell phone. she s called him over 500 times. ann also sent derril e-mails. i want to make you feel so many things. i want to show you new things. i want to touch places in you that you didn t know existed. you d better leave the women alone. you have me. ann miller and derril willard both worked together at the same pharmaceutical company. investigators learned they spent a weekend together at the ritz
investigators believe that ann miller had poisoned her husband and was responsible for his death. it was the motive they had a hard time figuring out. since eric didn t have a big life insurance policy, money was not considered a motive. the only life insurance was in the amount of $100,000. investigators believe ann s lover, derril willard, may have been involved in putting arsenic in eric s beer at the bowling alley, but they re convinced it was at ann s direction. i think ann miller was driving the train. derril willard was a passenger. he was not making these decisions. and he was a victim. just like eric miller. they also believed that ann put arsenic in eric s food the last meal he consumed before his death.
of what derril willard told his lawyer was admissible in court. in other words, the attorney can talk about what his client told him if it involves a third party who might have committed an egregious crime like murder. derril willard told his lawyer about a conversation he had with ann miller in a parking lot just after eric s death. the attorney stated that his client, derril willard, told him that ann miller went to the hospital on that first hospital stay, took a syringe, and injected something into eric miller s iv which presumably was arsenic. he then stated that he asked mrs. miller why she had done this, and she replied, i don t know. killers all share one common bond, and that is they are arrogant. they are in denial that they re doing anything wrong. this person s in their way. they re messing up their life
of times and he became so ill that, in fact, he brought the trash can from the bathroom over to the lane where they were bowling. witnesses said eric s friend, derril willard, had given eric the beer. investigators tried to speak to derril about that, but he refused. derril said, i can t talk to you anymore. i ve got to talk to my lawyer. then six weeks after eric s death, derril s wife found him on the floor of the garage in a pool of blood, a gun in his hand. my husband just killed himself. he just what? he killed himself. okay. and he s inside the home? he s in the garage. he s in the garage? yes. there was a suicide note tacked to the wall of the garage. i am sorry to leave you, my wife, my beautiful daughter, like this. i have been accused of an action for which i am not responsible. i have taken no one s life, save my own.