U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Wilson | U.S. Department of Justice
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced that Bryson Noel Miller, a 19-year-old resident of Fort Towson, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to one count of murder in Indian Country. The indictment against Miller stated that on December 23, 2020, he killed the victim with premeditation and malice aforethought.
Investigations revealed that on December 22, 2020, Miller collaborated with Ashlie Nicole Rose Martin and Chad Jon’Dale Voyles to plan the murders of Martin's parents. As part of this plan, Miller was involved in bludgeoning Martin's father to death. These events took place in Choctaw County within the boundaries of the Choctaw Nation Reservation.
The case was investigated by several agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Office.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerald L. Jackson accepted Miller's plea in Muskogee and ordered a presentence investigation report while remanding him into U.S. Marshals custody pending sentencing.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin D. Traster represented the United States in this case.