SESSER, IL — Sesser Police along with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police have investigated the deaths of an elderly Sesser couple and determined their deaths to be a murder/suicide.
Officers responded to the home of 86-year-old Phyllis Miller and her husband, 86-year-old James Miller located at 806 Locust Street in Sesser for a dropped call Tuesday morning.
After officers arrived they found the couple on the kitchen floor. Phyllis Miller was dead, and James was still alive having suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot would.
James Miller was flown to a St. Louis hospital where he died.