The young man who police say put the University of Wisconsin campus in turmoil Tuesday with a series of phone calls suffers from mental problems which may well stem from his horribly troubled childhood and have left him threatening suicide in the past. He was also expected to be a witness for the prosecution in an upcoming murder trial.
Court records for several cases involving Jesse Alton Miller, 19, show that he was the subject of juvenile court interventions almost from his birth, that he was sexually and emotionally abused by his parents, that he was rejected time and again by families he was residing with after being taken from his parents, and that he responded to all of that by committing numerous criminal acts beginning at the age of 9 in Milwaukee.