Dr. Insanity - Daughter's 911 Call Leads To Horrifying Discovery

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

Police are at the home of 81-year-old Howard Biedermann. Just minutes earlier, his daughter-in-law had called officers after finding Howard unconscious, fearing he had passed away... The cause of his death wasn’t immediately clear. As police searched the house, however, more and more clues began to point toward a carefully staged k*lling—eerily similar to a recent unsolved homicide, with a selfish motive at its center. This video was made for educational purposes only. The video is presented to provide genuine footage of police incidents to promote transparency in government while providing educational, informative and newsworthy content allowing viewers to examine and assess public safety material. This is a fact-checked documentary using authoritative sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Go out and try Pepsi Zero Sugar today. let your taste decide. Oh my. Lord have mercy. Police are at the home of 81-year-old Howard Biederman. Just minutes earlier, his daughter-in-law called officers after finding Howard unconscious, fearing that he passed away. Is it a third? We don't know.

It almost looks like he was like beat here, cast off over there, picked up and staged there. What's somebody else? Against an old man like that. Initially, officers were confused. The scene was brutal. But the cause of Howard's death wasn't immediately clear. As police began searching the house, more and more clues pointed towards a carefully staged murder scene,

eerily similar to a recent unsolved homicide case with a selfish motive at the center of it all. We know you killed him. We're going to be able to prove that. It's just why. Around 7 o'clock p.m. on a Wednesday, Ohio police received a call from Carla Biederman, reporting that she had found her elderly father-in-law, Howard Biederman, unresponsive. She told dispatchers he had recently undergone surgery for colon cancer,

and she was visiting to deliver his medication when she made the discovery. Officers arrived within minutes, thinking Howard died from his illness. But what awaited them was the start of a very puzzling murder investigation. In here? What? We're not. Okay. Okay.

Oh my. Is it a third? Is it a third? We don't know. We don't. I see a firearm anywhere? Hmm? Do a firearm anywhere? I don't know.

I don't know. You any of a name or anything yet? Um, I have not looked at. I take it. Hello? Um, homicide. Absolutely. I mean, the guy's covered him, but he's got huge gashes in his head. An older guy. Maybe Howard Biederman?

Um, it looks like the door might have been forced over. What the hell? All the gangers are too. Right. Right. Like, if you were going to come in somebody, why is you... He's got a lot of going to be a lot of... I believe 25s in route. He'll pick it all up from there. It's a laceration.

It makes the hole in his head. All the back side, there's a lot of laster. 12. As officers took a closer look at Howard's body, they quickly realized this was no natural passing. He had numerous head wounds that root his skull, and one of his eyes was completely blue. But what stood out even more were the strange details that didn't quite add up.

The front door showed clear signs of forced, entry, yet Howard's valuable firearms were still left untouched and nothing else appear to be missing, suggesting he might have been targeted for reasons beyond simple theft. I mean, there's just, that's straight through, you can see brain matter and everything. God. What somebody have against an old man like that? It almost looks like he was like here, cast off over there and picked up in stage there. You call the hospital and that flight coming to back doors.

I think I was here the other day just doing a well-being check on him. As officers continued examining the scene, someone recalled they had been to this house before during a welfare check just weeks earlier after Howard wandered off and couldn't remember how to get home. The family told officers he had dementia and often carried large amounts of cash on him, sometimes lending it out to people he trusted. It made him both vulnerable, and potentially a target.

But there was something even more concerning that officers realized. Howard's death wasn't the only violent mystery the town had seen recently. Just over a month earlier, 68-year-old John Strickland was found shot near his home roughly five miles away. His body was left on a neighbor's porch and no arrests were ever made. And now, with Howard's case on their hands, police couldn't ignore the unsettling similarities. With this in mind, officers secured the scene and went to speak with Howard's daughter-in-law, Carla Biederman, where they would learn of the suspicious timeline leading up to his murder.

Hi. We were out here a couple weeks ago, right? Yes. We're working on a timeline here, figure out what's going on. We don't know yet. We didn't find anything, a gun or nothing, where it was self-inflicted. We don't know anything else at this point. You know what time?

They would have left the Legion. He usually goes up about when they open around 11 and has a couple of years. He was like early afternoon. Yeah, and we were here. My husband had a doctor's appointment in Blood Work, and we were here between 11, 30, and 12. He was here, though, when you guys stopped? No, he was not. And I couldn't find his medicine, and he was up there having a couple of years.

Okay. According to Carla, at around 11.30 a.m., she went to Howard's house to deliver his medication. However, he wasn't home, and she assumed he was still at the bar, where he usually spent time. At 7 p.m., Carla returned, expecting Howard to have come back from the bar by then. Instead, she found him deceased. This placed the time of the murder sometime between her first and second visit that day. But then, Carla remembered something strange from two days earlier. something she hadn't thought twice about until now.

Anybody that, any girls that hang around and try to get money or anything like that? Now that you mentioned that, he called me, I need some help. I said, okay, I'm on my way. What you need? He said, money. My money's all screwed up. I said, okay, I'll come get you. We'll go to the bank.

Anyway, we're at the bank. He said, I need, they've printed him out of things. He said, I need $600. I said, why? What day was that? It's Wednesday now. So just yesterday? This Monday.

This yesterday? Yes. Two days ago. Yes. Okay, okay. He said I need $600 and I said, why? Why don't know? When he said he needed this money, has he ever said anything like that before?

No. Did he act like frantic about needing that money or anything? He just acted really, I need $600. Jackie, like, brought a part across the street. You mentioned Jackie Miller has been down a couple of times, which she's. So she checks on him occasionally and nobody else comes around and checks on him. Not much. He had somebody doing some plumbing doing.

A couple months ago, we pulled in the backyard and he was like, look, real funny at us. Howard's sudden need to withdraw $600 and his refusal to explain why, just days before his death, led investigators to reconsider robbery as a more likely motive. Carla also mentioned a woman named Jackie Miller, a neighbor who occasionally checked in on Howard, as well as a guy he'd hired to do some plumbing work. Initially, they both were simply people officers thought might have seen something useful.

Maybe not. But not long after this, someone else came forward with troubling claims about one of them. He said that ladies, but still wasn't anybody in the neighborhood, I guess. Here. Jackie. He's been breaking out too. She said she's been still in two people.

She's been bringing out until the last time school. Yeah, I know. When was the last time she brought him through? Probably a month ago. But Rhonda parked across the street. She said Jackie's being here. Said Jackie was here today. Oh.

They're traded that wouldn't be exposed to that. Did you tell one of the detectives that information? They were talking to Rhonda already? She's already talked to somebody Did Jackie ever come down with anybody else? She's only been here like once When we've been here So did you guys like have any beef with her

Had you run her off before? No, no She like I said She had brought in food She owes him money She was she was I forgot she was borrowing money off him He said the bank's about to close

I remember that now This was a couple months Three months Two, three months ago. He was lending money to Jackie Miller. She stays in a tech, though. He started to just recently tell his daughter-in-law that he was going to stop giving her money because she wasn't paying him. Officers would go on to speak with Howard's son, Mike Biederman, who confirmed that Jackie Miller often borrowed money from Howard and still owed him.

They also tried to track down the man Howard had hired for plumbing work, but no one could provide valid information, forcing them to focus on Jackie for now. Neighbors also said Jackie was struggling financially and was no longer living in her home, instead staying in a tent somewhere in the neighborhood. But the most troubling detail came from an eyewitness, who claimed she saw Jackie enter Howard's home at around 4 p.m., but never saw her leave. That placed Jackie among the last people to see Howard alive. With suspicion mounting, officers quickly secured a warrant to search her residence. Inside, it became clear why she had abandoned it. Police Department search warrant. You're out yourself.

Keep moving. Looks like there's a set of stairs right here. Police department search warrant. We got one more room checked. That one there, boss. Then we're done. The house was in complete chaos and unfit for anyone to live in. With no sign of Jackie at the house, officers considered the possibility that Jackie might be staying in someone else's home in the neighborhood.

So more units were deployed to help locate her. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, Jackie was hiding at a house just outside the neighborhood. Have you seen her since... Mom, she was here around 1230. Well, she was here today at 1230. I didn't see her. Okay. I saw it. She doesn't have for money all the time. I don't know what she does with it.

I promise you she ain't here. Huh? Like I said, we got to cover our bases, dear. I swear, oh, no, we're not saying you did, honey. We're not saying that at all. We were saying she broke in because she has no place to go.

Well, I promise you. She shows up here. I'm bringing her to you. We're looking for Jackie Miller. She lives on her for hours. Okay, we know that. We're investigating a homicide. And she was the last person seen with the victim, so we need to find her. Oh, my God.

I seen Jackie a week and a half ago walking down West Center Street. Yeah, she's a bad scene. Did she cheat somebody? We don't know. Oh, my God. At this point, it seemed Jackie Miller had vanished. Officers searched every house in the neighborhood, but there was no sign of her. A few hours later, police received a call from a man saying his friend inside his home

was acting strangely and making disturbing comments that left him uneasy. When officers arrived at the address and searched the house, they discovered the friend was actually Jackie Miller hiding inside one of the bedrooms. If you want, okay? You're going to be asked to answer some questions. Okay? You understand that? Yes.

If you start answering questions without a lawyer present, you can stop at any time. Do you understand that? Okay. Can I get my stuff? What do you get my stuff? What is your stuff? My money on the floor and that drink right there.

Okay. The whatever it is. Okay. We'll get it for you. All right. So? And the lighter, the purple lighter. Where'd you get the money from?

Pardon me? Where'd you get this money from? I borrowed it. From who? I brought it on. Who? Actually, her name is Courtney. Did you borrow any from Howard?

Did you borrow any money from Howard today? No, not today. We're going to go outside. And we'll get the rest of it here. Just leave your hands behind. What's up? Huh? I didn't want her to see me.

Okay, sorry. Tell me, talk to me. I said I didn't want her to see me. Okay. No, it's fine. You know me? I don't like the lie. You guys, what did she talk about today since you've been with her?

She said she talked about something that she might go somebody. The caller turned out to be a friend of Jackie, claiming she told him she might have someone earlier that day. Following Jackie's arrest, officers found a container of her. cocaine in her possession and transported her to the police station for questioning. Jackie had already denied that the money found in her possession belonged to Howard, insisting it came from someone else, a sign that, if she was guilty, getting a confession out of her wouldn't be easy. But detectives had a strategy, one designed to get Jackie to confess without even realizing

she was doing it. Hello. Hello. Hi, Jack. I remember me from down there? I talked to you in the back. Yeah. Talk to you in the back.

I remember that is I got a page, yes. Everybody said that. What did they tell you when they arrested you? Nothing. That's why I kept on asking what I did. I mean, what the charges was, all that. Right now? I mean, dispossession of cocaine.

Right. I'm asked if that was a felony or misdemeanor or what that was. It's following. The investigator withholds the real reason for Jackie's arrest to keep her calm and prevent her from becoming defensive. By avoiding any mention of her charge, he creates a false sense of security, hoping she'll lower her guard once the questioning begins, but Jackie had other plans in mind. Walk me through your day today. Start, let's start this time we wake up. Um, fed my dog. What time? You say you'd walk up

around him? Right. Fed the dog? Um, well, now she's from, um, I'm very, um, he's from, um, Went to Howard's to use a phone. What time was that? I mean, about two ladies. One thirty-two-th. Who's Howard? Howard. Howard Biederman?

Yeah, he's my neighbor. Okay. And that was around two o'clock you were there? That was late. Anyone else there? Yeah, there was a guy coming. He came up on the porch when I was leaving. Who was that?

I don't know. This guy that comes in with, he was. coming there as you were leaving. And you don't know this guy that came up to the door. Do you see him go into Howard's house? The detective finds Jackie's story unlikely. No neighbor reported seeing the man she described, and it's clear she's attempting to shift the blame preemptively,

despite not yet being formally accused. Jackie never asks why she's being questioned about Howard, especially since she was brought in on unrelated charges. If she didn't know Howard was dead, Instead, it would be natural for her to ask what happened or why the police were questioning her. This is when the detective decided to confront Jackie about a clue she unknowingly brought with her from the crime scene.

Do you want to pop up? Oh, me. Stand up. No one of one. No. No. Ouch. Listen to me.

This is your opportunity to tell me what happened in Howard's house. What do you mean? Let me see this. Can you show me? Turn it the other one. Yeah, what you got? What is this? What's this stuff from? Um, I believe for us, or pain. On your pain. It's just from my bike, what in your eyebag?

Hold on. What is? All this stuff is from like, my bike. To me, it appears My knees are scratched down. You can have blood on your shoe. No, that's pink. That's for your thing. That's, listen, do I still look at me? Something like that.

Yes. That's blood on your shoot. While Jackie's blood-stained clothing wasn't definitive without a DNA match, it was enough for the detective to press her further and get a confession. But for the next two hours, Jackie didn't budge and kept denying everything. So, another detective was brought in with a new strategy, to encourage her to admit to the killing, but frame it, as self-defense. It almost seemed absurd, given Howard's age and health condition, but surprisingly,

Jackie would play right into it. Hey, Jackie. I'm Lieutenant Atkins. I work for the investigator, you know, I'm technically lost. You might be my talking to me just for a minute. I may be able to answer some of the questions that you have. I guess. I don't know. What the reason I'm asking how is this, is this I know you came in here and talked to you about the aggravator, possibly being a charge, right? Okay, you know that's not a given, and he doesn't have to charge you with that? If there's circumstances which led to what happened inside that house, that makes a difference between involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicides, and they go down and down and down and not go up in seriousness.

They go down to seriousness. But what I can tell you is, is the only picture that we're going to be able to paint for a jury, is that he was brutal and murdered for no reason. I don't know. We know him. We're going to be able to prove that. It's just why. What caused this to happen?

What caused a sudden, just, accident, to happen? Right. This is not one's family thinking bad of him. Everybody's got skeletons in their closet. Would you agree? I mean. Okay. Would I be lying if I said that you use drugs occasionally?

Are you saying I went down there to kill him because I need drugs? I don't blame that. He was trying to be like a sugar daddy kind of thing. Does he give you money? No, I mean I borrowed money off in the past. Right? I guess not sugar daddy is not the right thing to say. You want different things instead of like me doing his dishes or his laundry, stuff like that.

So you want you to have... I have? Like, suck as d-shin' shit. Okay. Now we're getting somewhere. It's different. And I was different. Okay.

I was sitting on the couch. He was talking. They just started to come up further and throwing. This area or is it just area? Okay. Then what? I moved his hand away. I mean, he wouldn't, he wouldn't stop.

He wouldn't take no brain answer. It's right. huh? So what did you end up having the hitting went to get you off of you? I don't know. You don't know? I don't know what it was. Where was it at? On it is.

We faked it on his carpeting. Some tools they were on his pocketing. Can you describe it to me? Chronicle, ice clip, something weird, like a... Where did you get him, man, the chest, the arm, the head? Just to the head. Okay. How many times do you think you got the hitting?

I don't know. Um, did he four times, I guess. I don't know. Did you take any money from him that he had in his shirt? Just be honest. Yeah. Huh? I think he had 20 bucks that is.

Sure. Did I hear you right? He took 20 bucks for him or? Yes. Did you have to hit him so many times to get away from him? He kept on grabbing. Grabbing it. Was he holding you down on the ground or anything?

Yeah. So he's pretty strong. Jackie, my scripts, 100% sure of my scripts. We got a pair in there. There we got him blood or nothing. There's no blood or nothing on them. But you wash them off, wipe them down, anything. I don't know.

It's what I write it. You wiped them off? No, no. I think so. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, it is going to take this one out of my. Thank you. The unconventional strategy of the detective somehow worked,

and Jackie admitted to the murder. With a confession obtained, detectives ended the interview and booked Jackie into jail. Although she claimed Howard made unwanted civil advances towards her, investigators found no signs of physical assaults during their examination. This led them to believe she fabricated the story after being pressed during questioning. Furthermore, the autopsy revealed that Howard was struck 18 times, 14 of those blows directly to the top of his head. At the time of Jackie's arrest, she was found with several hundred dollars and a significant amount of crack pain. Given that she had no job and source of income, investigators believed that she had taken much more than the $20 she claimed.

All the evidence pointed to one conclusion. That day, Jackie was in withdrawal and desperate for her next fix. She went to Howard asking for money like so many times before. Howard, possibly aware of what the money would be used for, refused. That refusal triggered an impulsive and irrational outburst that ended in Howard's violent death. The murder weapon was a pair of vice grips and was later recovered inside Howard's home, neatly cleaned by Jackie. Forensic testing later confirmed that the blood stains on Jackie's clothing matched Howard's DNA.

Investigators also found no evidence linking her to the unsolved murder of John Strickland. His case was later resolved when authorities determined his wife was responsible for his death. In December 2017, 52-year-old Jacqueline Miller was convicted of murder and crime possession. Under Ohio law, she received an indefinite prison sentence of 15 years. to life, making her eligible for parole after serving a minimum of 15 years.