Fatal Desire Movie

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The movie Fatal Desire is based on the case of Sharee Miller. Sharee Miller's case is considered the first internet murder. She was convicted of the murder of her husband Bruce Miller in 2001.

Deadly Women: Sharee Miller True Story

 Facts in the case of Sharee Miller and the murder of her Husband Bruce Miller

by Traciy Curry-Reyes

Jerry Cassaday and Sharee Miller began a romance online. After several email exchanges they decided to meet in Reno, Nevada. In Reno, Jerry and Sharee spent a wild weekend together. At the time she is 27 years old and married. Sharee told Jerry many lies about her husband Bruce Miller. Jerry falls for her lies, and he falls madly in love with her. Jerry was very vulnerable at the time he began the internet affair with Sharee Miller. He had recently lost his job, and he had gone through a divorce amongst other problems,  so when he met Sharee, she was everything he ever wanted. After the fling in Reno, Sharee returned home and continued her conversations online with Jerry for the next several months. The relationship started very quickly and progressed rapidly. By 1999 Jerry had fallen completely in love with Sharee over the internet. Once she knew that she had Jerry under her spell, she started manipulating him even more by telling him that she was pregnant with twins, and that he was the father of the babies. She took fake photos of her belly and sent them to Jerry. Jerry was so excited to be the father of Sharee's babies. He was ready to spend the rest of his life with her. He had no idea that she was lying to him not only about the pregnancy , but about everything else too. Sharee then took more fake photos of her badly beaten body. She insisted that it was her husband, Bruce, who had beaten her, and that he had beaten her so that she would lose the twins. When Jerry received the photos of her bruised belly, he became so enraged, that he told her that he was coming there to kill her husband. So together they plotted out every detail of how they would commit the murder. According to Genesee County Police Detectives, Sharee gave him all the details that he needed in order to carry out the murder. He knew where to find Bruce Miller and where to find the money that he kept in his wallet.  When Jerry arrived at the location,  he approached Bruce Miller and shot him in the chest. He then stole his wallet to make it look like a robbery. There were never any suspects in the murder and the case went cold for quite a while. After the murder, Jerry was ready to be with Sharee. Sharee kept putting him off and making excuses as to why they could not be together as of yet. Jerry then decided to go to Sharee's home. When he arrived at her home he found her with another man. He was devastated. He realized that he had been used by Sharee. So he decided to take revenge, by writing an eight page confession of how he and Sharee together plotted the murder of Bruce Miller. After he wrote the confession he placed it in a brief case, and then put a gun to his mouth and committed suicide. Sharee Miller was arrested and placed into custody in 2000. In 2001, Sharee was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Tidbits
Jerry was a former police officer and many who knew him described him as a good person. Many people could not believe that he could be capable of such a thing.

Sharee had a reputation of seducing men and enticing them to do whatever she wanted them to do.

Where is Sharee Miller Now

As of 2009, Sharee Miller is out of prison until her new trial date is set. Her murder conviction was overturned. The decision stated that the suicide note of Jerry Cassaday should have never been allowed at trial due to the fact that Cassaday was dead and could not be put on the stand. Sharee Miller is living somewhere in the Detroit, Michigan area. Most recently she had a Facebook page. The link for the Facebook page is no longer working.


Here is an update on Sharee here

Sharee Miller Now

 Here is a recent photo of Sharee. The first one is an interview that she did, and the other is of a guy that she was engaged to while in prison. When she was released from prison pending her trial, she dumped him.

Update 2013: here is a small update-timeline on where she is now

Sharee Miller Photos

Based on the real life story of Sharee Miller, and it is based on the book Fatal Error.


Find out where Sharee is now