LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) – There were new developments on Monday in the arrest of a census worker accused of raping a handicapped woman in southern Indiana.
The man may have left behind clues at the crime scene in Washington County that quickly led to his arrest.
WHAS11’s Stephanie Collins was in Pekin on Monday with more on the story.
Daniel Miller had been with the Census department for two weeks, knocking on many doors in Pekin Indiana.
Many in this small community remember him, but it wasn't his picture that led to his swift arrest.
Debbie Bishop remembers the man from the Census Bureau and that his next stop was the house she rents, down the road.
It was in this Pekin, Indiana home where a 21-year-old mentally and physically handicapped woman was raped.
Daniel Miller was arrested Saturday morning and charged with burglary and rape. Court documents show a bizarre turn of events.
Miller's clothes, including his jeans, underwear, t-shirt, and his wallet with his driver's license and boots were all left in the victim's bedroom.
Within five hours of the rape, the Washington County Sheriff's Department and Salem police were knocking on Miller's apartment door. He was found in a back bedroom, nude, with a .03 blood alcohol level allegedly telling police he had no memory of what happened.
The arrest of a census worker for rape has this small community upset.
According to police, at least one item belonging to the victim was found in Miller's car.
Miller is in the Washington County Detention Center on a $150,000 full cash bond.
The Census Bureau would have done a background check on Miller, and would have found the same thing the sheriff found – nothing. Miller has apparently never been arrested.
