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September 15, 2025 17 mins
INSANE Confession: Amish Mom Claims Husband Is “In a Fish” After Drowning at Ohio Lake 

It sounds like something ripped straight from a dark biblical parable — but it’s real. At a quiet Ohio lake, what should have been a simple Amish family camping trip turned into one of the most shocking true crime stories of the year. By the end of the day, Marcus Miller was dead, 4-year-old Vincent was drowned, and his mother Ruth Miller was calmly telling police on bodycam that her husband was “at the bottom of the lake in a fish.”

In this Hidden Killers Live segment, Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels break down the timeline of August 23rd at Atwood Lake. What started as a “test from God” spiraled into horror: Marcus walking into the water and never returning, Ruth “giving” her son to God, and her desperate claim to officers that her husband had been swallowed whole like a modern-day Jonah.

The hosts dig deep into the questions this case forces us to ask: Was Ruth Miller insane, or was this faith taken to its most destructive extreme? How does a community with limited access to mental health care handle delusions that masquerade as religious devotion? And how can a family’s private spiral turn into a public tragedy that shocks the entire country?

With bodycam footage capturing Ruth’s chilling calmness, this case exposes the razor-thin line between devotion and delusion, faith and psychosis. Is this simply madness — or a warning about what happens when insular belief systems collide with untreated mental illness?

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