Murder on the USS Miller, 1985.
In the summer of 1985 an IC2 Mitchell T. Garraway stabbed a Lt. James K. Sterner Jr. to death. This murder took place aboard the USS Miller while she was underway.
Does anyone recall hearing any thing about this at all? Seems the only place it made news was in Newport, R.I. where the USS Miller was home ported.
I clearly remember the day Garraway tired to escape the Newport Naval Brig. He was being held there awaiting his Court Martial. He took my friend and fellow co-worker SK2 Jeffy McCray hostage in February of 1986 in his escape attempt.
Garraway faced the Death Penalty but instead was given life in prison in June of 1986.
It's strange to me that I can only find information about this in The Providence Journal.
I'm going to search the Boston Globe archives and see if there is any thing written about this there.
Don't mind me, the PTSD is kicking in again and this is one of the things I've been dwelling on.
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03-23-2005, 11:05 AM
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