Families, police appeal for information in Ontario triple homicide

TORONTO — An Indigenous community in southwestern Ontario devastated by the killings of three members, including a woman who was seven months’ pregnant, issued an emotional plea for public help Thursday, calling on anyone with information about the case to come forward.

The slayings involved a closeknit trio from Six Nations of the Grand River. Their bodies were found earlier this month about 120 kilometres west of their community, which is near Brantford.

Police were tight-lipped about the deaths, saying they could not share most details for fear of compromising the joint investigation between the provincial force and officers with the Indigenous community.

But Trevor Miller, brother of victim Melissa Miller, 37, appealed to the public to share any information on the case while tearfully outlining the impact of the deaths on his family.

“This did not need to happen,” Trevor Miller said moments after police disclosed that his sister was pregnant with a baby boy at the time of her death.

OPP Det.-Insp. Peter Liptrott said officers were first called on Nov. 4 after receiving reports of a pickup truck abandoned in a privately owned field in Middlesex Centre, Ont.

When police arrived on the scene, he said, officers found three bodies “with the truck,” though he declined to elaborate on the exact location.

The victims were later identified as Melissa Miller, Alan Porter, 33, and Michael Jamieson, 32.

Six Nations acting deputy police Chief Darren Montour said Miller and Porter were cousins, while Porter and Jamieson were “inseparable friends.”

Police said they had no suspects in custody and have set up a tip line to solicit information from the public.