When Marlene Bernas went out for dinner in 1993, she thought her teenage daughter was staying in. But when she got home, the house was empty.
It was September 1993. She had just started her junior year at Arcadia High School, signing up for accelerated classes.
The 49-year-old father has pleaded not guilty for reasons of insanity. At the bench trial, expected to last months, Miller's attorneys will argue that, at the time of the killings, he suffered from complex dissociative disorders caused by childhood trauma.The last time Marlene Bernas saw her daughter was the evening of Sept. 21, 1993.
When she left, Marlene said, Melanie was wearing a large white T-shirt and white shorts she used as pajamas.“When I said goodbye to her, I kissed her, said 'I love you.' She was sitting on the sofa and I said 'I’ll see you in a little while'.”Melanie usually abided by her curfew, which was 9 p.m. on a school night. Her mother waited a while before calling Melanie's father, who hadn't seen her that night. Nor had a friend.
Her first thought was that it was blood, Pottle said. But she tried to talk herself out of it, thinking it was probably just the angle of the sun.
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