On June 14, 2019, police were called to conduct a welfare check at a single-family home in a senior housing community in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where they discovered the body of Sally A. Miller, a 72-year-old white female. She was found in her home after a neighbor became concerned that she had not been seen, and officers forced entry to check on her. An autopsy determined that she had died from a single gunshot wound to the head and that her death was a homicide.
The residence was part of a 55-and-older cooperative community on Rachael Circle, described by neighbors as a quiet area where Miller largely kept to herself. Investigators treated the scene as a suspicious death from the outset, securing the home with crime-scene tape and asking the public for information about Miller's recent activities and anyone who might have visited her in the days before she was found. Authorities emphasized that the gunshot wound and circumstances inside the home were inconsistent with an accident and formally announced that they were investigating a homicide.
Within days, attention focused on Miller's daughter, Jennifer Clow. On June 16, 2019, Clow, then 49, was arrested by authorities in Naples, Florida on a fugitive-from-justice charge stemming from a New Hampshire arrest warrant issued the previous day. That warrant charged her with alternative counts of knowing and reckless second-degree murder for causing her mother's death. According to investigators and subsequent news accounts, Clow had left New Hampshire and traveled to Florida after the killing. She was held in Florida, waived extradition, and was brought back to New Hampshire, where she was arraigned in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester on the second-degree murder charges.
Over time, prosecutors revealed more about what they believed happened inside the home and why. Evidence presented in court and summarized by state officials indicated that Clow entered her mother's bedroom while she slept, placed a handgun against her temple, and pulled the trigger. Investigators said Clow later told them she had taken money from Miller, destroyed evidence after the shooting, and had thought about killing her for a long time, even writing about the idea in a journal. Separately, prosecutors noted that Miller had told a neighbor before her death that her daughter had been stealing from her, that the financial exploitation had left her out of money, and that she might have to sell her house.
Clow ultimately chose not to go to trial. In April 2021, she pleaded guilty to reckless second-degree murder in connection with the shooting, telling investigators that she knew what she did was wrong. At a sentencing hearing on June 21, 2021, a judge in Hillsborough County Superior Court sentenced her, then 51, to 30 years in state prison. The court heard that Miller's body had remained undiscovered for about 10 days after the shooting and that Clow's own attorneys described her as struggling with long-term mental health issues, suicidal thoughts, and substance abuse, though the judge concluded the killing was still a voluntary act. With the conviction and substantial prison term for Jennifer Clow, the homicide of Sally A. Miller is legally resolved, with no other suspects publicly identified.
