CC True Crime Minute: Maniac Believed Responsible for 3 Random Slayings Apprehended After Multi-State Manhunt

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An Iowa madman accused of killing an elderly woman at her home stealing her car and slaughtering

two more on a Utah hiking trail was captured after a multi-state manhunt.

Ivan Miller, age 22, was nabbed last week in Colorado with a handgun and a large knife

after the grisly discovery of three slain victims in Wayne County a day earlier, triggering

a frantic search for the triple homicide suspect.

The horror unfolded when two husbands found their wives, one woman in her 30s, the other

in her 60s, dead on a hiking trail near Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, highway police,

spokesperson Lieutenant Cameron Rodin told reporters.

The spouses also told police one vehicle was missing and they didn't recognize the other

left behind.

A search of the car led cops to the Lyman home of the third victim, a woman in her 80s

who investigators believe was killed before the suspect swiped her car, drove to the trail

and later ditched it for one of the murdered wives' vehicles.

Using license plate readers and a vehicle tracking service, authorities traced the suspect

traveling from Utah through northern Arizona to Bogosa Springs, Colorado, where he abandoned

the car.

Miller of Blakesburg, Iowa, was then taken into custody after a brief search.

Police have not revealed a motive and said the alleged killer has no known connection

to the three victims describing the slings as crimes of convenience.

Investigators are also probing what Miller was doing in Utah before the killings and when

he arrived.

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