Family of 30-year-old mother looking for answers 6 years after her disappearance and murder

This week on Tracking a Killer: The Cold Case Files, CityNews reporters Fil Martino and Madison Fitzpatrick take a look at the unsolved disappearance and homicide of 30-year-old Jamiee Lee Miller.

The 30-year-old mother of three was reported missing in Barrie, Ontario on November 2, 2015. Months later, her remains were found in Simcoe County Forest in the nearby Springwater Township.

According to police, this was no missing person’s case. They say it was a homicide.

“The pathologist deemed it to be a homicide due to the nature of the body and the way it was located,” said Detective Inspector Jim Gorry with the OPP’s Criminal Investigation Branch.

Jaimee’s father Jeff Miller is still looking for answers six years later.

“She was a doting mother.  Everything was about her kids. Always a smile, always. You know, she had issues over the years, like minor stuff,  but it was always positive. Like it was everything was to do with her kids,” said Miller. “It just didn’t make any sense.”

The OPP say they began a joint forces operation with Barrie Police. They interviewed over 200 people and they identified several persons of interest, but so far no arrests have been made in connection with this homicide.

“We haven’t closed the case because we never really close any case. If  we get a tip that comes in, we look at it and I still have investigators assigned to it.  It is just a matter of getting that break to solve this case. It’s like a puzzle and we as the investigators have to put the pieces of this puzzle together,” said. Detective Inspector Gorry.

Jaimee’s father isn’t giving up either.  He wants to know who is responsible for his daughter’s death.

“She had three kids and they have the right to know what happened to their mother.  What we’ve gone through I don’t want anybody else to go through that.”