Daughter Convicted of Killing Long-Lost Parent
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ERIE, Pa. — A woman who was reunited with her mother 40 years after being given up for adoption has been convicted of breaking the woman’s neck.
Constance Agnes Miller, 61, was found guilty Tuesday of voluntary manslaughter in the slaying of her 83-year-old mother, Antoinette Smith, after they argued about Miller’s medications and that her mother called her Agnes, the name she was given at birth.
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