Arrest Made In 29-year MA Cold Case Murder

MEDFORD, MA — Edward Watson was arraigned in court for the 1992 murder of Michelle Miller.

The 65-year old Mattapan native has been charged with First Degree Murder for killing Miller on the behalf of her former partner Daniel Innis, according to evidence gathered by the Cold Case Homicide Unit of Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s Office. Innis died in prison while serving an unrelated sentence for manslaughter in 2012.

Miller, a former United States Army soldier, was found dead at the age of 29 in the basement of a vacant Cambridge apartment two weeks after she was last seen alive.

“On July 28, 1992, the day after she told her social worker of her intention to obtain a restraining order against that abusive partner, she disappeared,” Ryan said about Miller. “For more than thirty years this case had gone unsolved. Our Cold Case Unit, using archived records from the Department of Social Services, was able to unearth previously unknown details about the abuse that Michelle Miller had suffered at the hands of her partner, and how she tried to protect herself immediately before her disappearance.”