Accused San Angelo Speedway Murderer’s Jury Trial Postponed

SAN ANGELO, TX -- The woman accused of helping Robert Miller kill his wife in Grape Creek and move and bury her body at the former San Angelo Speedway has her trial postponed until July.  

42-year-old LuDonna Yoder went before District Judge Ben Woodward Tuesday for what was supposed to be her final pretrial hearing before her jury trial.  Instead, Yoder’s attorney Jimmy Stewart told the judge he had two other jury trials on June 18 and would be ready for Yoder’s trial by July. Judge Woodward set Yoder’s trial date for July 23 with a final pretrial hearing on July 10.  

As we reported earlier, Yoder is charged with murder in the death of Robert Miller’s wife Michelle.  Court documents charge Michelle was murdered in a home in Grape Creek. In her confession to Detective and Sgt. Billy Fiveash of the TGCSO, LuDonna admitted she and Robert premeditated the murder of Michelle. The plan was set into action on Dec. 3, 2005. According to LuDonna, Robert had briefed her a predetermined signal. Her role, she said, once the signal was given, was to place a pillow over Michelle’s face and suffocate her to death.

After Michelle was dead, LuDonna told Fiveash how she and Robert hid the body. The scheme started at the home where the three were living on Glass Rd., between Grape Creek and Carlsbad. According to what LuDonna told the detective, she assisted Robert in hiding Michelle’s body in an area in the rear of the residence. This was where investigators found a modified kitchen floor to gain access to what was described as a “depression” consistent with storing a body. Fiveash stated that in 2015, in a consent search from the residents at the time, K-9 cadaver dogs alerted on the scent that indicated a body had been where LuDonna said she and Robert initially hid Michelle’s body.

LuDonna stated that in March 2006, she assisted Robert in removing Michelle’s body from the Glass Rd. residence and transporting it to the former San Angelo Speedway in the 3000 block of FM 2105. There, LuDonna said she assisted Robert placing Michelle’s body in a ditch. Then, LuDonna said she rode on a “maintainer” Robert drove, keeping lookout, while Robert buried the body on the south side of the racetrack.

Robert Miller also has a final pretrial hearing on July 10 and a jury trial set for July 23.