police continue silent treatment regarding miller homicide

GILFORD — As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Country Club Road in the vicinity of the home located at 123 was still closed to through traffic and the state had not released the results of the autopsy of the woman who was found dead there Monday evening.

Assistant N.H. State Attorney Benjamin Agati said Tuesday that the autopsy for Roberta "Bobbie" Miller, 54, was scheduled for yesterday and authorities wouldn't be making further statements about the matter until its completion.

While police have remained mum about the circumstances surrounding Miller's "suspicious death," divorce and other documents filed in Carroll County District Court Family Division reveal additional details of what Roberta Miller's friends have described as a "long and nasty" divorce from her husband Gary R. Miller. The couple lived in Wolfeboro.

WMUR television in Manchester reported that the autopsy had been completed but the results had not been released.

According to filings, the couple separated in June of 2007 and a final divorce decree was issued Aug. 13, 2010.

The marital home on 82 Haines Hill Road in Wofleboro was awarded to Roberta Miller to sell and split the assets with Gary Miller. According to documents on file at the Carroll County Register of Deeds, on Oct. 28 Roberta Miller sold the nearly $600,000 home into the JJB Trust of which she was the trustee.

She also sold her home at 123 Country Club Road in Gilford into the same JJB Trust on Aug. 29, which was when the sale was recorded in the Belknap County Registry of Deeds.

Gary Miller was awarded a house — or three-season camp — at 111 Katy Lane in Acton, Maine and was to pay Roberta one-half of the equity in that home.

On Oct. 29, the Katy Lane home burned to the ground in a fire that is being investigated by the Maine State Fire Marshal.

Other terms of the divorce include that neither party was ordered to pay alimony, each was responsible for his or her own health insurance, and they were to divide equally their respective 401K retirement accounts.

Auto Village of Wolfeboro, which Gary Miller owned and operated, was to be sold and the proceeds shared equally, Tamworth Tire was to be sold and it proceeds shared equally, and the Customer First warranty business was ordered to stop issuing warranties and the Millers were to split the assets.

In addition, court documents show that the couple were to have filed a joint 2009 tax return and either split the refund or the amount owed.

Roberta Miller instead filed separately.

On Oct. 7 Gary Miller filed a motion for contempt claiming that Roberta Miller owed him $74,000 in taxes and $6,100 in legal fees.

Roberta Miller replied that she didn't have any money although Gary Miller's pleading indicate she had received almost $1 million — much of it from liquidation of jointly owned assets.

"I am unemployed with no income, no alimony, no support, 54-years-old with a high school education now attending college full-time to try and support myself," she wrote in her answer to the contempt motion.

"I am living on $500 a month in the most disastrous economical times in decades," she continued.

On Oct 29, Gary Miller's attorney responded to her reply with a nine page missive that accused Roberta Miller of taking or squandering close to $1-million and of delaying the sale of the 82 Haines Hill Road home.

"Mrs. Miller will not explain where all of the money went, but she maintains that she in unable to comply with the court's order," he wrote again asking for the $74,000 in back taxes, $6,100 in legal fees, and to allow the sale of the Haines Hill Road home to be handled by Gary Miller.

The Millers had been scheduled to appear in Carroll County District Court Southern Division on this morning.