Hardin County man serving prison sentence gets federal prison time for mailing threats

A Hardin County man serving time for the murder of his brother has been sentenced in federal court for sending threats from jail.

Kyle Miller of Vine Grove was sentenced to four years in federal prison following three years of supervised release after he was convicted for Mailing Threatening Communications with Threats to Kill and Extort.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky, Miller mailed letters to victims containing threats to kill in July, August, and October of 2023, and in January 2024 mailed letters to a victim containing threats to kill and extort. The case was investigated by the FBI, Kentucky State Police, and the Elizabethtown Police Department.

Miller was arrested in June of 2019 for the murder of his seven-year-old brother. Miller was 15 at the time, but in October of 2021 he was retried as an Adult and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He has been serving his sentence at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in West Liberty.