He Set HER Up. She Did 9 Years For His Crime, When She Got Out She K!lled Him and His Wife | HO!!

On a quiet Tuesday night in Glen Burnie, Maryland, a silver sedan sat motionless across the street from a two-story colonial home. The house glowed warmly from within. Laughter drifted through partially opened windows. Inside, neighbors would later tell police, a couple appeared to be celebrating something—perhaps nothing more than another comfortable evening in a life that looked complete from the outside.

From the driver’s seat of that silver car, Janet Miles watched without moving.

She had a bottle of sleeping pills in her coat pocket and a handgun resting on her lap. According to later testimony, she had not driven to Glen Burnie that night to hurt anyone. She had driven there to end her own life.

For nine years, Janet Miles had carried the weight of a prison sentence she insisted was never truly hers. She had lost her youth, her freedom, and most painfully, her child. That night, parked across from the home of her former lover, she believed she had reached the end of what she could endure.

Then she thought of her daughter.

The pills went back into the bottle. The gun stayed.

What followed would become one of the most disturbing revenge cases Maryland homicide detectives had ever seen—a case that blurred the line between victim and perpetrator, justice and vigilantism, manipulation and accountability.

A Good Girl From East Baltimore

Janet Miles did not grow up surrounded by crime.

She was raised in East Baltimore by her grandmother, Ruby Miles, after her mother died of a drug overdose when Janet was eight years old. By all accounts, Janet was quiet, diligent, and deeply responsible for her age. She worked part-time while attending school, helped pay household bills, and rarely got into trouble.

“She was an old soul,” Ruby Miles would later tell investigators. “She took care of everyone but herself.”

Janet dreamed of becoming a nurse. She attended community college at night while working retail during the day. Church attendance was routine. Her world, though modest, was structured and purposeful.

That changed when she met David “Dave” Miles.

The Man Who Promised Everything

Janet was 17 when she met Dave at a house party in West Baltimore. Dave was two years older, confident, charismatic, and endlessly ambitious. He spoke of businesses he wanted to start, money he planned to make, and a future beyond the neighborhood they both wanted to escape.

For Janet, Dave represented possibility.

He became her first serious relationship, her emotional anchor, and eventually, her entire vision of the future. For five years, the two were inseparable. They talked about marriage, children, and owning a business together.

Dave also had a close friend named Nikki Stevens—intelligent, observant, and from a more stable, middle-class background. The three socialized constantly. Janet believed she had found not only love, but family.

In hindsight, she would say she missed the warning signs.

When Love Turned Criminal

The first crime did not involve drugs or violence.

It involved retail returns.

Dave, frustrated with his finances, suggested Janet return stolen merchandise without receipts, exploiting store policies that favored customer satisfaction. He reassured her it was harmless—“working the system,” not stealing.

Janet resisted at first. Her grandmother had taught her a strict moral code. But Dave was persuasive, and Janet wanted to help him succeed.

The first return worked. Then another. Then another.

Soon, Janet was returning merchandise multiple times a week, coached by Dave and occasionally accompanied by Nikki, who showed a natural talent for deception. The operation escalated from store credit to cash refunds, and eventually to credit-card fraud involving duplicate restaurant charges.

Janet knew it was wrong. But she believed it was temporary—a means to an end. Dave promised that once they saved enough money, they would “go straight” and start a legitimate car-detailing business.

By the time Janet was 22, they had accumulated roughly $15,000.

Then Dave wanted more.

The Line Janet Should Never Have Crossed

Dave introduced Janet to a man known only as “Big Mike,” who proposed paid transportation work. Janet would move packages without knowing their contents.

Janet understood immediately what this meant.

She refused—until Dave convinced her it would be minimal risk, heavily protected, and brief. One run. Just transportation.

Against her instincts—and her grandmother’s warnings—Janet agreed.

The first run ended with Janet in handcuffs on Interstate 95.

Unbeknownst to her, Dave had not followed her as promised. He had watched from a distance as police arrested her, then driven away.

Three weeks later, Janet discovered she was pregnant.

Six weeks after that, she was sentenced to nine years in prison for drug trafficking.

Dave never visited. Never called. Never wrote.

The Ultimate Betrayal

Two months into Janet’s sentence, she received a letter.

It was from Nikki.

The letter informed Janet that Dave and Nikki had married and moved out of state. Dave, Nikki wrote, was “sorry things worked out the way they did” but had moved on.

Janet read the letter repeatedly.

That was the moment, prison counselors later testified, when Janet’s emotional state shifted permanently. She stopped crying. Stopped writing letters. Stopped believing anyone was coming to save her.

Six months later, Janet gave birth in prison.

She was allowed to hold her daughter, Mina, for 24 hours.

Then the baby was taken away.

Prison as a Classroom

Janet served every day of her nine-year sentence.

She did not seek early release.

She did not seek parole.

She worked prison jobs, saved money, exercised daily, and spent hours in the law library reading about fraud cases, criminal enterprises, and revenge crimes that went undetected.

Other inmates noticed her emotional withdrawal.

“She went cold,” one former inmate later told investigators. “Not crazy. Calculated.”

By the time Janet walked out of prison at 31, she had $2,847 in savings, no criminal supervision requirements, and a single objective: to understand what had happened to her life.

Freedom and Discovery

Janet returned to her grandmother’s home and met her daughter for the first time as a nine-year-old.

Mina was polite. Distant. Uncertain.

Janet focused on rebuilding. She found work as a medical office assistant. She took her daughter to school. She avoided thinking about Dave.

Until curiosity turned into investigation.

Using public computers at the library, Janet located Dave and Nikki living comfortably in Glen Burnie. Dave now owned a trucking company. Nikki worked at a bank. Social media painted a picture of success, stability, and happiness.

The caption on one photo read: “Nine years married and still going strong.”

Nine years.

The same nine years Janet had spent behind bars.

A Dangerous Connection Resurfaces

While surveilling Dave’s routine, Janet observed him meeting with a man she recognized immediately: Marcus Webb.

Marcus was a known criminal figure from Dave’s past—someone Dave owed $15,000 from a failed scam years earlier.

Dave had never repaid the debt.

Men like Marcus Webb, investigators knew, did not forget.

Janet understood then that Dave’s past had not disappeared. It had only gone dormant.

The Information Exchange

Janet made contact with Marcus Webb through his brother, Tony.

She provided Dave’s address, schedule, vehicle information, and financial details. She emphasized the unpaid debt and suggested Dave had profited greatly since disappearing.

Janet did not ask Marcus to kill anyone.

She did not need to.

Three days later, a black SUV began circling Dave’s neighborhood.

The Murders

Dave and Nikki Miles were found bound, gagged, and shot in their basement.

There was no forced entry.

The crime scene indicated professional execution, not spontaneous violence.

Detectives traced a rental SUV to Marcus Webb.

He was arrested, tried, and convicted of two counts of first-degree murder.

He never revealed who gave him Dave’s location.

Janet’s Interview

Detectives questioned Janet Miles.

Her alibi was solid. Her demeanor controlled. Her history known.

They suspected her—but had no evidence.

Janet was never charged.

Aftermath

Janet returned to her quiet life.

She raised her daughter.

She slept at night.

Whether she was a victim who reclaimed justice or an architect of murder remains a matter of perspective.

What is undeniable is this:

Dave Miles set Janet up.

She served nine years for his crime.

And when she came home, the people who destroyed her life were gone.

Justice, in this case, did not come from a courtroom.

It came from patience, silence, and a woman who learned how to wait.