Woman Arrested in South Dakota Sentenced for 2022 Murder of Child

A woman arrested in South Dakota and later convicted of killing her adopted daughter is going to be spending the next three decades behind bars.

Last Friday (February 6) in a Spokane County, Washington courtroom, 36-year-old Mandie Miller of Airway Heights, Washington, was sentenced to 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to homicide by abuse, second-degree child assault, and two counts of unlawful imprisonment tied to the death of her niece and adopted daughter, Meela.

Mandie Miller has confessed to the 2022 murder of the 8-year-old and then transporting the child’s body across state lines in a U-Haul, before being arrested in South Dakota after authorities learned they were traveling to the Pine Ridge Native American reservation…

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