US EditionAmish Family Tragedy Unfolds at Ohio Lake: Father and Son Drown in 'Spiritual Delusion'
Ruth Miller faces charges after authorities link the deaths to a religious delusion and mental health crisis; she is held in a mental health facility, sheriff said.
- On Aug. 23, Ruth Miller, 40, of Millersburg, Ohio, was charged after her 4-year-old son Vincen and husband Marcus were found dead at Atwood Lake, facing multiple serious charges.
- Officials said the episode stemmed from a religious delusion amid a mental health crisis, with Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell noting the couple believed God directed their faith tests.
- At the dock, authorities describe a sequence in which Ruth Miller loaded her 4-year-old into a golf cart, drove erratically, flipped it, rode on two wheels, and then drove it into Atwood Lake around 10:30 a.m., with responders recovering Vincen's body that evening on Aug. 23.
- She is being held at a secure mental health facility, the three older children are unharmed and staying with relatives, and autopsies have been ordered to determine the manner of the deaths.
- Investigators from the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office and Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District said the Holmes County Amish community family arrived Friday in an RV, while the Old Order Amish Church and family said the deaths do not reflect their teachings and attributed them to mental illness.
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