The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced that Bryson Noel Miller, a 19-year-old resident of Fort Towson, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to one count of murder in Indian Country. The charge stems from an incident that occurred on December 23, 2020.
The indictment accused Miller of killing the victim "willfully, deliberately, maliciously, with premeditation and malice aforethought." Investigators revealed that on December 22, 2020, Miller, along with Ashlie Nicole Rose Martin and Chad Jon’Dale Voyles, planned the murders of Martin's parents. As part of this plan, Miller participated in bludgeoning Martin’s father to death. These events took place in Choctaw County within the boundaries of the Choctaw Nation Reservation.
The investigation involved several law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerald L. Jackson accepted Miller's plea at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee. A presentence investigation report was ordered by Judge Jackson who also remanded Miller to U.S. Marshals custody pending sentencing.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin D. Traster represented the United States in this case.