N.S. family of Clayton Miller continues 33-year fight for answers, accountability
Global News
A lawyer representing Clayton Miller's family says they have new evidence contradicting the official story about his supposed accidental death in 1990.
In Nova Scotia, the family of Clayton Miller is continuing their more than 30-year quest to fully understand the circumstances surrounding his death and hold someone accountable.
They say new evidence suggests Clayton’s death was not accidental, which has been the official story so far.
“We want the truth. We want to be told what happened to Clayton,” his mother, Maureen Miller, told Global News.
Clayton was 17 years old when his lifeless body was found in a small brook in New Waterford, N.S., on May 6, 1990. The last time the teen had been seen alive was two days prior at a party that was raided by police.
The Millers have never accepted the answers provided to them by investigators or the conclusion reached by the province’s police watchdog agency: that Clayton was drunk, fell into a stream and died of hypothermia.
Miller believes her son was murdered.
“He didn’t put himself in the brook. Somebody put him in the brook. Who did that?” she said.
The Serious Incident Response Team, a police watchdog agency, investigated Clayton’s death in 2015 and concluded that it was an accident.
