Supplemental report of
Det. R. Mills

After DET. SALDATE and I escorted ROGER to my vehicle I drove to the area of 99 Avenue and Union Hills. On ROGER'S instruction I turned north through the northern outskirts of Sun City and continued north to just north of Happy Valley Road when ROGER indicated that we had just passed through the wash where CHRISTOPHER had been shot. I slowed down and turned around and drove back to the wash and ROGER confirmed that this was in fact the correct location. We were followed to this location by DETECTIVES SCOTT and TOWNSEND.

Comment: Unfortunately MILLS didn't list the accurate time span of the entire drive, but from the reports of the other officers following MILLS' car we know that the drive to the murder-scene must have happened between 4.30 and 5.00 p.m., therefore one to one-and-a-half hours after SCOTT'S initial incrimination of JIM STYERS. The most incredible observation here is the lack of any mention of the purported, additional incrimination of SCOTT involving Debra Milke. At the Voluntariness Hearing public defender KEN RAY challenged SALDATE "And as this statement came out of Roger Scott suggesting that Debra was involved, it was not pursued to any great length with him in that car, was it?" But SALDATE found an astute way out and distracted the public defender's attention by responding "Again, it's hard to interview someone when you are driving down the street." But in fact, he also admitted that DET. MILLS drove the car and therefore it's illogical to picture why SALDATE shouldn't have examined SCOTT'S incrimination of Debra more closely. Indeed, this report of MILLS raises the question as to how likely is it that a police officer does not mention a serious incrimination of an alleged murderer in his report ? Hardly ! It makes you wonder what really happened. This report also corroborates SALDATE'S claim at trial that not he, but indeed DET. MILLS drove the car. But something else is also very interesting here. While examining ARMANDO SALDATE at the Voluntariness Hearing KEN RAY was obviously not aware that MILLS' stopped the car to get gas, because SALDATE'S supplemental report states : "We then noticed that we needed gas and decided to stop at Cactus Park Briefing Station to get gas. At this time I called SGT. ONTIVEROS and informed him about the mother's involvement and he told me that she was now in Florence." It was never a secret to the authorities that Debra had accompanied her step-mother - after having waited inside the apartment for almost twenty-four hours, hoping to hear news about CHRIS - and she left the full address and telephone number with them. But here MILLS' report doesn't state any of these incidents : neither the implication of Debra Milke by SCOTT, nor the stop at the gas station, nor the contact with SGT. ONTIVEROS. In fact - as circumstantial evidence shows - two cars left the police main station between 4.45 and 4.50 p.m., one in direction to STYERS' apartment, one in direction to Florence. The report of DET. T.D. CAREY #3580 narrates that JIM STYERS was arrested at 5.17 p.m., in front of his apartment [the drive from the police main station to STYERS apartment takes approximately 25 to 35 min.]. And the detailed proceedings of the three officers inside the second car en route to Florence are described in the supplemental report of DET. HAMRICK.

DET. SALDATE and I walked w/b from 99 Avenue in the wash and after going through some underbrush came upon the body of CHRISTOPHER MILKE. The clothing description was identical to that given as the last clothing he was seen wearing when he disappeared from Metro Center on the 2nd. DET. SALDATE and I then transported ROGER to Metro Center and he took us to the north side of Sears and pointed out a planter separating two parking lot drives and indicated that this is where he had deposited the shoes worn by JIM at the time of the murder.

Comment: This account is the crosscheck proof that the statement of MAXINE EDWARDS at the Circle K store - as contained in OFF. CRISWELL'S report - is absolutely credible. OFF. CRISWELL narrated therein pertaining to SCOTT "MAXINE EDWARDS said he was carrying a blue athletic type bag and he was wearing a red plaid shirt and a ball cap." SCOTT was indeed the one who hid STYERS' shoes, and the agreement between the two must have been for SCOTT to show up at the Metro Center in order to exonerate JIM and claim that he had seen JIM together with CHRISTOPHER there. JIM himself later admitted in his letters to Debra that he had truly been out at the scene of 99th Avenue and Lake Pleasant Road. And this presumable agreement makes sense, if we take STYERS' statements at his own trial into account, namely that ROGER had shot CHRISTOPHER without any foreseeable indication or comprehensible motive. Yet, it was irresponsible for STYERS to subject the little boy to the presence of the obviously irrational ROGER SCOTT. Therefore it's no surprise that SCOTT later admitted the crime himself to a fellow inmate, ROBERT. E JOHNSON. But we find another interesting fact corroborated in this paragraph. MILLS speaks of "going through some underbrush", and the place where the dead boy was found is indeed hidden a hidden spot and can only hardly be found. At the Grand Jury Hearing SALDATE invented some facts which are in no way corroborated : "Styers wanted the body found within two or three days so he could collect the $ 5,000 life insurance policy." The report of DET. HOUSE on the other hand explicitly states that "A cluster of tree branches covered the wash bed at 98 feet west. This made visibility westward in the wash difficult." And here MILLS confirmed exactly that, namely that 'some underbrush' existed. SALDATE'S successful efforts to invent the cases against STYERS and Debra Milke become obvious.

The shoes were located at 1741 hours at the exact location ROGER indicated. These are shown on my evidence supplement as Item #3. They were subsequently impounded for comparison to shoe prints found at the homicide scene.

I then returned ROGER to 620 West Washington. After conferring with other Detectives concerning this case it was decided that everyone was hungry including ROGER and food would be obtained.

Comment: MILLS always narrated in the singular tense, whereas ARMANDO SALDATE was with him during the drive to the murder-scene, the subsequent visit to the parking lot of Metro Center and upon returning to the main station. Only at this point the two detective could've parted and engaged in separate activities. We will see next how MILLS commenced his interview with JIM STYERS. No hint as to what SALDATE did is given here.

After returning to 620 West Washington I became aware that JAMES STYERS was in custody and at 620 West Washington in a holding room. I contacted him in the holding room at 1841 and interviewed him as recorded in the appropriate supplement.

Comment: We can see here the result of the order to arrest STYERS and how implausible this appears in light of the fact that SALDATE'S contact with SGT. ONTIVEROS hadn't been addressed herein previously. At the same time in Florence Debra Milke and JANET FROEBE had just arrived. DET. HAMRICK'S report states that "DET. DiMODICA and I arrived at the Pinal County Jail at approximately 1835 hours. When we arrived we spoke to Deputy SOULES who had just arrived with DEBRA. DEBRA had come to the Pinal County Jail voluntarily and came with a friend, JANET FROEBE, in JANET'S car. DEBRA was standing on the sidewalk in front of the jail." This coherence depicts that MILLS' report withheld the information that SALDATE already knew that STYERS wouldn't talk to police and requested an attorney [see also MILLS' report about the interrogation of JIM STYERS]. In this situation SALDATE ordered a helicopter ride and decided to go to Florence himself. DEPUTY SOULES later confirmed at trial that he had talked to SGT. ONTIVEROS on the phone and that he "advised me that his investigators were en route from Phoenix to talk with Ms. Milke, and he gave an address of where she was supposed to be located and wanted me to go and pick her up and bring her into the Pinal County Department's main office." Here we learn that the initial order was for the three officers to talk to Debra Milke. As DET. HAMRICK had later confirmed at trial, the three officers were in touch with Phoenix via radio, and all of a sudden SALDATE used the helicopter ride to interrogate Debra himself. It would be implausible to believe that the cop did not have an ulterior motive when he ordered the three officers not to speak to Debra themselves. KEN RAY - who was unaware of all these coherences - did not inquire of SALDATE about these proceedings at Debra Milke's trial.

After that interview was conducted I sat with ROGER while we ate. During that time period I told ROGER that I wanted to make a taped statement concerning this incident and he consented.

On 12/3/89 at 8:12PM, I had a taped interview of ROGER as recorded in the appropriate supplement. That interview lasted until 9:17PM. Please see that supplement for the statements made at that time.

Comment: True, a transcript as well as a copy of that tape-recorded interrogation exists. In reading its transcript we can see how ROGER SCOTT was completely unable to tell a consistent story involving Debra Milke. While this interrogation took place in Phoenix, SALDATE had already made contact with Debra Milke at the Pinal County jail facility [7.53 p.m.] in Florence, sent her accompanying acquaintance JANET FROEBE out of the room and commenced the interrogation of the young woman. When he emerged from that dispensary room inside the jail facility 35 min. later together with Debra he did not mention a voluntary confession to a fellow detective.

Subsequent to that interview I participated in the execution of the search warrant drafted by DET. KAVANAGH at ROGER'S home at 4816 West Bethany Home, Apt. #120. The execution of that search warrant started at 2220 hours during which the RG .22 revolver was found as indicated in the evidence supplement. At the time of the execution of the warrant ROGER'S mother WILMA SCOTT was present and SGT. PAUL ACKZEN was securing the apartment. The search ended at 2244 hours with MRS. SCOTT being given appropriate copies of the search warrant paperwork.

A signed consent form had also been obtained for this residence as noted in the interview of ROGER SCOTT.

I acted as the finder and retainer of the evidence on this search warrant.

Following the execution of the search warrant at ROGER'S home where I acted as finder, I participated in the search warrant at 7734 North 12Street, the home of JIM STYERS. That search warrant was drafted by DET. OLSON and executed by DET. KAVANAGH, who acted as finder.

Subsequent to the execution of that search warrant I returned to 620 West Washington where I placed the evidence I had obtained in the drying room under lock and key.