Born and raised in Foley, Lieutenant Miller started off his working career in the military. Straight out of high school, he joined the United States Army where he served for three years. In 1987, Lt. Miller came back to Baldwin County and moved to the aircraft repair business now known as Collins Aerospace. He worked in the business for a handful of years but still had the itch for more. The company had a big layoff in the 90's and he took the opportunity to make the jump into law enforcement.

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In 1992, Lt. Miller sent himself to the police academy and was hired at Foley in May of that year by Chief Jim Anderson. The Foley native started as a patrol officer and was there for 3 years before moving to Investigations in 1995 as a Corporal. Just a year later, Lt. Miller was promoted to Sergeant. He remained in Investigations until 2000 where he would investigate everything from shoplifting to murder scenes. He worked MANY cases while in Investigations, but one that sticks out was the Calvin Stallworth case. Foley was one killing shy of having a serial killer after Stallworth murdered two convenience store clerks during a robbery in the late 90's.