Orphaned Boy Commits Double Murder in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Posted by Mary Trotter Kion Aug 14, 2006

What makes children turn to murdering another child? In the case of Charley Miller, known as Kansas Charley, it may have been numerous things. At the time of the double murder, he had been released from an orphanage and was tramping across country. He had known deep hunger and freezing cold. He had seen his alcoholic father commit suicide. Charley was a chronic bed-wetter and had been repeatedly beaten for it. He had even been the victim of a gang rape in an empty boxcar. Would any of these factors be sufficient to convince the Wyoming governor to stay his execution?