Lisa Ann Millican

Lisa Ann Millican (March 18, 1969 – September 28, 1982) was a victim of a notorious kidnapping and murder that began at the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia on September 25, 1982. That day Lisa was on a shopping outing with other residents of the Ethel Harpst Home, a home for neglected and abused girls and boys located in Cedartown, Georgia. Separated from her group, Millican was snatched from the mall's gaming arcade by sexual predators Alvin and Judith Neelley. The Neelleys had previously committed other crimes in the mall, but the Millican case represented their graduation into sexual torture and murder. Millican was sexually abused for three days and then injected with drain cleaner, shot and thrown into Northern Alabama's Little River Canyon by Judith. Kenneth Kines, the leading detective of the case followed the Neelleys for three weeks before finally capturing them in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. For this and other murders, Alvin was sentenced to life imprisonment in Georgia. Judith, only 18 at the time of the killing, was sentenced to death in Alabama, but in a controversial decision in 1999, her sentence was commuted to life by outgoing Alabama Governor Fob James.