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Where is William Alma Miller now? 'Dateline' investigates the heartbreaking story of a murder that went unsolved for nearly 20 years.

On Sept. 20, 2004, Rebekah Gould replied a knock at the door of her ex-boyfriend's space where she was once striking out. The 22-year-old was once back home in Melbourne, Ark., from faculty, and had no reason to suspect that the particular person at the door could be the closing person she noticed.

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A week later, her frame can be found miles away wrapped in a blanket, and her killer would remain hidden for over 15 years. With the help of a Facebook staff dedicated to Gould's case, government eventually narrowed the suspect listing down to William Alma Miller, who confessed to the murder in November 2020. Where is he now? Dateline has the story for its June 2 episode.

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Where is William Alma Miller now?

Miller is currently serving a 40-year sentence at the East Arkansas Regional Unit which is an Arkansas Department of Correction jail in Brickeys, St. Francis Township. According to KAIT 8, on Oct. 18, 2022 he "waived his right to a jury trial in circuit court" and was once immediately taken into custody. Judge Tim Weaver informed Miller that if he caught even a whiff of parole he would "write an extensive letter opposing it."

Gould's father, Dr. Larry Gould, addressed Miller in court docket by way of a written commentary. "Eighteen years ago, my life changed forever," he said. "You took her from her own future. You took away a chance for a girl to dream. A hell you created. A hell you must face." He added that at Gould's funeral, he vowed to search out his daughter's killer. "Promise made. Promise kept," Dr. Gould stated.

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Miller apologized to the Gould family, saying that if he may go back and time in order to trade what came about, he would. "I’m sorry for what I’ve done. I need to go to prison for what I’ve done," he shared. Miller were arrested and charged with first-degree murder two years prior to this day in court docket. With his sentencing comes little convenience for the family, beyond the understanding that justice used to be in spite of everything served.

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A Facebook staff helped capture William Alma Miller.

Part of the duty of Miller's seize goes to George Jared, host of the Diamond State: Murder Board podcast. Along with his buddy Jen Bucholtz, a Colorado police investigator, they began a Facebook staff known as Unsolved Murder of Rebekah Gould. "We used open-source information. We did not have a case file." Bucholtz informed Fox 16. In other words, they relied in this group for pointers.

Jared advised the outlet that a man from the Philippines joined the crew and was once fascinated with helping in a way that felt suspicious. Why would anyone midway round the international care about an unsolved murder in Arkansas? It didn't take long for this guy — William Miller — to begin DM'ing Bucholtz. He sent a newspaper clipping about what the neighbor may have heard the evening of Gould's murder.

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Miller was once repeatedly commenting and saying issues that, to Jared, felt off. Other people in the team took word of Miller's abnormal habits. One woman was acquainted with genealogy and used to be able to figure out that Miller was once the "first cousin of Rebekah’s sort of ex-boyfriend that she had been staying with the weekend prior to the murder." They brought their findings to police who grew to become the investigation towards him. A few months later, Miller had confessed to the murder.

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What happened to Rebekah Gould?

In Miller's affidavit, which was got by means of KAIT 8, he detailed the occasions of the evening Gould used to be killed. The two had previously met when Miller used to be serving to Gould's ex transfer furniture. That's probably why Gould let Miller into the space when he knocked on the door, claiming he needed to use the telephone. She went again to sleep whilst he faked a choice.

While speaking with journalist Angelia Roberts after his sentencing, Miller mentioned, "She said something to me and it just infuriated me." Miller alleged he has no recollection of what Gould stated, however attributes his violent anger to the fact that his personal father beat him as a child: "It was kind of like what my dad did to me. I did that to her." What he did was take a piano leg from the lounge, and beat her to death with it.

During his dialog with Roberts, Miller time and again mentioned how sorry he was once for what he did. After his arrest, government found an image of Gould's headstone on Miller's telephone. Evidently he downloaded it from a picture online. Apparently he would speak to Gould via the photo, telling it that it was once "time he came forward so everyone can have closure." Hopefully Gould's circle of relatives does.

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