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Yesterday, and again over the next few days, a film crew has been shooting scenes in the Petrolia area. A news show about Shane Miller, the fugitive wanted for the murder of his wife and two young daughters early last May, is being put together. Miller disappeared in the remote coastal area the morning after the killing of his family and was the subject of a massive manhunt. Last July Miller was placed on the US Marshal’s Most Wanted list. There is a $25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
According to Lt. Wayne Hanson of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s office, the film crew belongs to “a news agency from outside this state that is doing a story about the Shane Miller manhunt. We have one of our detectives, Todd Fulton, in the area talking to that agency.”
Hanson said there was no new information about Miller but that the agency wanted to make a national hour-long program about the fugitive. The show will bring attention to the case, he explained. “I think it was warranted.” The hope is that more attention brought to the case might help catch Miller.
Not everyone, however, is delighted. Petrolia resident Mary Sue Day was not happy at the unexplained intrusion in her small town. She had no idea what was going on when, yesterday before noon, she became aware of a large pickup driving around and around — “circling the square”
“The person,” the 74-year-old woman said, “didn’t have respect for where he was driving.” When the driver parked, Day spoke to him. “He came up and kind of parked cross-ways in the street. I went up and talked to him, which was a little bit bold for me.”
She explained she had been worried about safety. “Don’t drive like that.,” she said. “There is a little girl in our neighborhood that drives around in her bicycle.”
The man told her that they were filming a scene about Shane Miller. Day then approached the film crew. “They told me they had to take a lot of different shots of the truck because they only have one camera.”
Day was not entirely satisfied with the explanation. “I’m 74. I’ve been here for 25 years. We don’t need any movies. Sure we’ve got to get the alleged bad guy but I don’t need the drama.” Day wondered if the crew had permits.
Cassandra Hesseltine, Film Commissioner for Humboldt County, confirmed that the agency had filled out all “the proper paperwork.”
According to Hanson, the crew will be in the area again on Tuesday and Wednesday. Day, a 25-year resident, is unlikely to be happy about this. As she explained, “We have enough irresponsible drivers in this neighborhood. We don’t need anyone else coming through.”
PREVIOUSLY:
- Humboldt Connection in Shasta Triple Murder
- Vehicle of Suspect in Shasta County Triple Slayings Found at Mouth of Mattole
- Mattole Schools Close as Manhunt Continues
- Sheriff Downey: Where We’re At in the Mattole Manhunt
- Afternoon Manhunt Update: No Leads to Report, But Tour of the Unknown Coast Will Go Forward
- Whitethorn School Opens But the King Range Conservation Area Closes
- Photos of Petrolia as Hunt for Triple Homicide Suspect Continues
- No News From the Shane Miller Manhunt in the Mattole Valley
- More Officers Arrive to Search for Triple Homicide Suspect
- Dead Body Rumors Unfounded, Says Lt. Hanson
- Shelter in Place Request Lifted—Caution Still Advised as Authorities Search for Homicide Suspect, Shane Miller
- Law Enforcement Expands Manhunt to New Boundries
- ‘Defeated’ Suspect in Triple Homicide Left Note in His Abandoned Truck
- Sheriff’s Office Manhunt
- Today: Checkpoints, Door-to-Door Searches, More Marshals Arriving
- Today’s Sheriff’s Office Update From the Shane Miller Manhunt
- ‘We Don’t Care If You Have a Meth Lab in Your Backyard, We Just Want to Find the Baby Killer!’
- Miller Told Ex ‘Everything Will Be Alright’
- Miller’s Dog Found—Law Enforcement Searches for Hikers Who Found Her
- King Range Manhunt Winds Down
- More on the Search for Shane Miller
- Underground Bunker Searched for Shane Miller
- US Marshals Add Shane Miller to Most Wanted List
- Shane Miller Spotted in Siskiyou County?
- NBC Revisits the Shane Miller Case