Five Harrisburg women disappeared one by one between 1986 and 1992 as serial killer Joey Miller stalked city bars for his victims. Each one had families who loved them and futures that would never be realized. Here are their stories: Kelly Ann Ward, 26: Ward’s family reported her disappearance in 1986.
They would have to wait 30 years for answers to what happened to her. Ward’s skeletal remains were found in 1997 by a road crew working along Chambers Hill Road in Swatara Township. It would be another 17 years before her remains were positively identified, and two more years until Joey Miller pleaded guilty in 2016 to raping and killing her.
In 2015, relative Faun Ward told PennLive he had more or less given up hope that the person who killed his cousin would be found. “Kelly was a wonderful person. She was loved by everyone.
And she will be missed,” Ward said. Kelly Ann Ward was the first known victim of serial killer Joseph Miller. Last seen on Jan.
2, 1986, it would be nearly 20 years before Miller pleaded guilty to killing her. PennLive Selina M. Franklin, 18: Franklin disappeared in May 1987.
Her skeletal remains weren’t found until August 1992 when Joey Miller led detectives to the burial sites of two of his victims in the Swatara Township landfill. That allowed Franklin’s family to give her a proper burial. At the service, Franklin was remembered as a warm, loving, outspoken and outgoing young woman.
“Selina was a beautiful young lady. This is a portrait f.