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The Case of Ronnie Miller
📻 Episode #586
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 13, 2026
About This Episode
Ronald Miller and Lori Johnson of Rockford, IL had a daughter, G.M., in 2010. In 2015, several days after an argument between Johnson and Miller in which Miller threatened to sue Johnson for full custody, Johnson reported Miller to DCFS. Shortly after, she obtained an order of protection which ended all contact between Miller and…
The Case
Ronald Miller and Lori Johnson of Rockford, IL had a daughter, G.M., in 2010. In 2015, several days after an argument between Johnson and Miller in which Miller threatened to sue Johnson for full custody, Johnson reported Miller to DCFS. Shortly after, she obtained an order of protection which ended all contact between Miller and his daughter. Johnson claimed G.M. had told her that Miller touched her inappropriately and proceeded to bring her daughter to Carrie Lynn Children's Center to record a video accusing her father of sexual abuse. Before the trial, G.M. took back her accusation, telling her mother, her therapist, and the trial prosecutors that the abuse never happened. The trial proceeded anyway, and this information was not shared with the jury. The prosecutors presented the testimony of a pediatric nurse admitted as an “expert in the field of child abuse.” Trial counsel called no experts for the defense, and Miller testified in his own defense. He was convicted by the jury on all three counts and sentenced to twenty years.
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00:04:50“Speaker 1: And it appeared that this was a pattern for miss Speaker 1: Johnson that had been playing out with the father of Speaker 1: her fifteen year old son, Tristan oh Man. Speaker 3: If you talk to Wayne Gilberto, he'll tell you the Speaker 3: exact same thing. And she had me believing this man”
00:18:24“Speaker 3: of guilty man is not going to take a deal Speaker 3: for no jail time? In probation. The only person that Speaker 3: is not going to take that deal is the innocent Speaker 3: person that believed in the justice system and has the Speaker 3: truth behind their side. I turned that opportunity down.”
00:32:01“Speaker 4: with LORII present, and it'd always be like they go Speaker 4: out to eat, or they'd take her shopping or something. Speaker 4: We did get a guardian at lightam involved. My daughter Speaker 4: was allowed to go to the visits with my mom. Speaker 4: But then when I finally got allowed my first very”
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