A 21-year-old Hardin County man already in prison for strangling to death his young brother has been sentenced to federal prison for threatening to kill two judges via the U.S. mail.
Kyle Miller, of Vine Grove, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison on Tuesday “for mailing threatening communications with threats to kill and extort,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky.
There is no parole in the federal system.
“On July 6, 2023, August 28, 2023, and October 16, 2023, Miller mailed letters to a victim containing threats to kill. On January 28, 2024, Miller mailed letters to a victim containing threats to kill and extort. On October 13, 2023, Miller mailed a letter to a victim containing a threat to kill,” prosecutors said.
The victims in the case were Judge John David Simcoe (the judge who oversaw Miller’s murder trial) and Judge Jerry Crosby.
Miller wrote the letters in hopes of being transferred to a federal prison from the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex because he thought a federal prison would offer improved living conditions, according to a report by WAVE.com. What Miller failed to understand, though, was that he would not serve his federal sentence until his 20-year sentence for strangling his seven-year-old brother to death in June 2019 was concluded.
Miller, who was 15 when he killed his brother, was initially sentenced as a juvenile to 20-years and re-sentenced to 20-years in October 2021 after he turned 18.
By Ken Howlett, News Diretor
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
