Sister Pleaded With Fugitive To Give Up Son Woman Says He Admitted Killing Mother-In-Law, Wounding Wife

The sister of Texas murder suspect Kevin Ronald Miller says she pleaded with him to surrender or give up his 19-month-old son he abducted at gunpoint.

But Miller wouldn’t listen to his sister, Rhonda Bono, when the two met Friday at a gas station near St. Louis.

During that meeting, Miller confessed to murdering his mother-in-law and shooting at his wife after snatching the couple’s son, Bono said Monday.

When she refused to hide her brother and his son from police, he fled Missouri with the boy.

In two days, Miller drove 1,900 miles to the Spokane Valley, where he shot himself in the head early Monday during a standoff with sheriff’s deputies.

“He wouldn’t listen to me and wasn’t about to give up his son,” Bono said from her home in Missouri. “He told me he was going out with a bang, and felt like he was being boxed in.”

Her brother expressed white supremacy views, “but I didn’t want to listen to them because good and bad people come in all colors,” Bono said.

Miller had his son, Dylan, with him during a two-week visit in March with Bono at her home 60 miles from St. Louis.

During that visit, Bono said, Miller attempted to reconcile with his common-law wife, Alison Kay Kennedy. Bono said her brother convinced Kennedy to fly to St. Louis on March 29 with a ticket he bought.

“But when she got here, she served him with legal papers and grabbed the boy and was gone,” Bono said. “My brother was devastated.”

He was charged with murdering his mother-in-law May 4. Last Thursday, he shot and critically wounded Kennedy when he abducted the couple’s child from her apartment.

Miller met with his sister Friday.

“He was absolutely shocked when I told him he had shot Alison,” Bono said. “He told me she was shooting at him as he ran out with the boy, and he just fired back.”

“He asked me if I’d put him up for a couple of days at my house, but I wasn’t about to do that because I’ve got three kids and a family of my own,” she said.

“I told him Dylan needed milk, clean clothes - the things you have at a home, and I pleaded with him to let me have the boy, but he just wouldn’t do it.”

Bono later called authorities and told them she had met with her brother. Police later raided her house looking for the fugitive.

Bono said her brother wouldn’t say where he was going, and she has no idea why he picked Spokane.

In March, Miller gave his sister a snapshot of him, Dylan and his daughter from a previous relationship.

“I’ve got that picture here,” Bono said. “He wrote on it: ‘Nothing is more important than my love for my children.”’

, DataTimes