Couple Accused of Murdering Wife Then Burying Her Body at Speedway, Formally Indicted

SAN ANGELO, TX — The couple arrested and accused of the murder of Naomi Miller in 2005, whose body was discovered at the former San Angelo Speedway on the northeast side of San Angelo were indicted June 1. According to court records, the sheriff returned a capias instanter for both Robert Lamar Miller and Ludonna Gail Yoder this morning. Miller has been in custody at the Tom Green County Jail since March 2, and Yoder since March 14. Each were given a $200,000 bail, but neither could pay the bond. 

Miller and Yoder are accused of murdering Miller’s wife, Naomi, who was 32 at the time of her death in December 2005. The State accused the couple, who claimed they were married in a 2007 newspaper article, of concealing Noami’s body under the floor in their Glass Road residence before moving the body to the south side of the former San Angelo Speedway off of FM 2105 months later.

The Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office investigators found Noami’s body March 8 at the old Speedway grounds. Cadaver dogs with the Texas Search and Rescue (TEXSAR) helped locate where the body was buried.

Miller was in jail, since March 2, days before Naomi’s body was found. Yoder admitted to sheriff’s office investigators and Texas Rangers that, “during the month of December 2005 she had witnessed a domestic dispute between Robert Miller and Naomi Miller.” She told investigators that the dispute occurred in a bedroom of the residence and in the minutes following the dispute, she recounted that she had seen Miller “carrying an object believed to be the body of Naomi Michelle Miller while wrapped in bedding.”

Yoder was arrested less than two weeks later, on March 14, for murder.

For more, see Grisly details emerge of Naomi Miller's murder.

If found guilty, Miller and Yoder both face five to 99 years in prison for murder, a first degree felony. In addition, both are accused of tampering with evidence for concealing the body of Naomi, which is a third degree felony punishable with two to 10 years in prison.