Jennifer Miller took a deep breath before speaking.
“I’m just here to talk about my mom,” she said, looking around at the people gathered at the New Hampshire Department of Justice on Monday afternoon.
She described her mother, Roberta “Bobbie” Miller, as someone who gave out snacks to her kids’ friends, who signed her emails “Love MOM,” who enrolled in business school to build a career for herself, who hiked any chance she got, who wasn’t a great cook but always put a meal on the table for her family.
“My mom shouldn’t have been taken from us,” Jennifer said.
Bobbie was found shot to death in her Gilford home on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. The 54-year-old had recently moved into the house with her yellow Labrador retriever, Sport, who was also killed.
Having just marked the fifteenth anniversary of Bobbie’s death, her family is still searching for answers. They issued a renewed call for closure on Monday, asking that anyone with information pertaining to Bobbie’s death come forward.
Jennifer Miller speaks at a press conference on Nov. 3, 2025 and issues a renewed appeal for information in her mother, Roberta Miller’s, 2010 homicide. Credit: RACHEL WACHMAN / Monitor
“We’re hoping that maybe, if somebody hears our story, somebody may have heard something — the person must have told somebody over 15 years, and anything could help. Anything at all,” said Bobbie’s sister, Mickie Moore.
She described her sister as “vibrant” and “kind.”
“She truly was interested in people, and she’d really sit down with them and talk to them,” Moore said. “I always kind of kind of liked that. She would drop anything to help anybody, no matter what was going on in her life. She was devoted to her children.”
Homicide and arson
The investigation is one of 126 cold cases in New Hampshire, which includes missing persons. Since Miller’s body was found, her death falls among the state’s 97 unsolved homicides.
The last time anyone saw Bobbie was at Lowe’s on Halloween day in 2010. She appeared in security footage as she shopped for supplies to build flower boxes for her windows.
What happened next remains a mystery, one her family still hopes to unravel.
Jennifer, who lives in California, recalls trying to call her mother on the morning of November 1. She received no answer. It bothered her throughout the day, so she tried again later. Still nothing.
When her phone rang that evening and her brother Jonathan’s name flashed across the screen, she knew immediately something was wrong. He had gone to Bobbie’s new home on Country Club Road and found his mother and her dog dead.
“None of us can move on,” Jennifer said. “We just continue to circle around and around in this never-ending pit of who-done-its or what-ifs, or what could we have done differently?”
Credit: Miller Family / Courtesy
Credit: Miller Family / Courtesy
Bobbie and her ex-husband, Gary Miller, had just finalized their divorce three months prior. Soon after, Bobbie had moved to Gilford, looking to be closer to her son and gain some space from Wolfboro, where she and Gary had raised their family. She started attending business school through a mix of in-person and online classes based in North Conway, seeking to find a calling to make her own.
On October 29, two days before Bobbie’s murder, her ex-husband’s house in Acton, Maine burned to the ground. He had received the home in the divorce settlement. The cause of the blaze was determined to be arson. No culprit has ever been found.
Jennifer believes the fire and her mom’s killing are somehow entwined.
“I honestly don’t think targeting Halloween was a coincidence,” Jennifer said. “She would have been home. She would have been handing out candy, doors easily unlocked, so I don’t think any of it was a coincidence.”
The irony, Jennifer said, is that Halloween was her mom’s favorite holiday.
“One of my biggest fears is they saw someone walking down the street in a mask,” said Jennifer, who was 26 when her mom was killed. “It was Halloween. You just wrote it off. That’s what you expect.”
Bobbie’s mom, Madeleine Blake, found out about her daughter’s death on the morning news. She turned on her television, which was playing a segment about a woman killed in her Gilford home the previous day. In a heart-dropping instant, Blake just knew.
Bobbie’s children tried calling her during the night but their grandmother hadn’t picked up, Moored explained, speaking on behalf of her 95-year-old mother beside her at the press conference.
Blake and Bobbie talked every Sunday. The last time they spoke was on Halloween.
“She told my mom she was afraid,” Moore said. “She didn’t know why. She was just afraid.”
Mickie Moore, sister of Roberta “Bobbie” Miller, spoke at a press conference on Nov. 3, 2025 to issue a renewed call for information in her sister’s 2010 murder. Credit: RACHEL WACHMAN / Monitor
Searching for answers
Jennifer doesn’t think her mother’s killing was random.
“I think it’s just too coincidental to lose your house in a fire by arson and then a day and a half later, someone in your family’s murdered,” Jennifer said.
Moore said she believes she knows who the killer is but not enough evidence exists to charge him in Bobbie’s death. She didn’t give a name but shared more about her suspicions of this man.
“My sister was very close to someone that she would do anything for — anything — and were always getting in trouble, always getting in trouble. And my sister would always bail them out, always,” she said. “And I think one time my sister said no, and they got upset enough that they took her life.”
She also believes someone else was there to help the killer.
Similarly, Gary Miller described that, in the investigation into the arson of his Maine property, a car was seen with lights off, waiting in the neighborhood during the same period of time in which the fire was set.
Gary said he, too, wants to know what happened to his ex-wife. Not just for him, but for his children, for his former mother-in-law. Gary wishes the state would release the case files into the hands of the family once a certain amount of time passes without answers.
“We talk about closure. We talk about justice. I think it falls on deaf ears for families or people that haven’t personally experienced it,” he said.
Bobbie’s death continues to send shockwaves through her family.
“I think, psychologically, you could probably go down a lot of impacts of my own personal relationships with people, certainly an impact on my closeness to my family is probably the biggest loss for me,” Jennifer said. “It’s hard to maintain those relationships when you have everything coming at you from the outside world and from the inside.”
Roberta “Bobbie” Miller and her daughter, Jennifer Miller, shared a love of the outdoors. Credit: Miller Family / Courtesy
The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit reiterated its dedication to investigating Bobbie’s death.
“It being a cold case does not mean that it’s a closed case,” said R. Christopher Knowles, chief of the unit and a senior assistant attorney general.
“Even the smallest detail may help solve this cold case,” he said. “So we urge anyone with information on Bobby Miller or the events surrounding her brutal murder to come forward and provide that information, those details to investigators.”
Moore implored the public to consider her family’s plea.
“All I want is please, please, please, anybody, anybody, no matter how minor it might be, please call the state police,” she said.
The family is independently offering up to $56,000 in reward money to anyone with information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of Roberta “Bobbie” Miller’s killer.
The Cold Case Unit is seeking information on her death and particularly hopes to hear from anyone who may have seen or interacted with her between 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 31, 2010, and 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 1, 2010.
“We know someone out there has those answers and has information that can help us bring justice to Bobby Miller’s family and to give her the peace — her and her loved ones — the peace that they deserve,” Knowles said.
To submit a tip, visit https://business.nh.gov/ColdCaseTips/Tip.aspx?Victim=Roberta%20Miller. All tip can remain anonymous, according to the Cold Case Unit.
To contact the Cold Case Unit, email coldcaseunit@dos.nh.gov or call (603) 271-2663.
