Episode 8: The Murder of Pamela Milam
Pamela Milam - Murdered in 1972
Jeffrey Hand Images next to the composite snapshot from Parabon Labs.
On Friday September 15th, 1972, 19 year old Pamela Milam was excited for the weekend ahead.
A sophomore at Indiana State University and a member of the Sigma Kappa Sorority, Pam had plans of attending several days worth of sorority activities including meetings, rush parties and more. Around 11 pm that fall evening, she ducked out of Holmestead Hall, where’d she’d attended a meeting, and told her sorority sister’s she’d catch up with them in a few minutes to eat at the Lincoln Quad on campus where she was staying for the weekend.
Minutes turned into hours and Pam never arrived.
The following day, Saturday September 16th, 1972, Pam’s father Charles Milam and her sister, Sam Milam would make a horrifying discovery. They opened the trunk of Pam’s car to find her bound and strangled to death inside.
Pam’s murder went unsolved for 46 years, but thanks to genetic genealogy, investigators were able to put the oldest cold case in Terre Haute Indiana to rest.
Episode Sources
Tribune Star: Oldest Terre Haute Cold Case Solved
Pamela Milam Press Conference: On Facebook
13WTHR: Police identify killer in 47-year-old cold case murder of ISU student
True Crime Pages: Pam Milam Murder
From Newspapers.com: The Herald and the Princeton Daily Daily Clarion - Various editions from 1973-1976
My Wabash Valley: Milam Sisters Speak Out
Courier & Press: A Jury Could Have stopped Suspected Serial Killer…
True Crime Society: The 1972 Unsolved Murder of Vickie Lynn Harrell