True Crime with Rachel Shannon
EVIL Twins Thought Their Dramatic Cover-Up Could Fool Cops (It Didn't)
29 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What tragic event occurred on September 25th, 2023?
Sarah and Menno Miller were the parents to eight children living in an Amish community in rural Fillmore County, Minnesota, located about an hour and a half south of Minneapolis. On the morning of September 25th, 2023, the family woke up early in the morning as they always did and started their chores.
According to Menno, the four oldest children would get up and start taking care of the horses before school. That included getting a wagon, bringing the feed into the barn, feeding the horses, letting them out of their stables, and cleaning up after them. Once this was finished, they got themselves ready for school.
Fillmore County, Minnesota is home to one of Minnesota's largest Amish settlements with about 1,000 people or about 150 Amish families. For those who don't know, Amish lifestyle is strongly tied to their religious beliefs. They rarely, if ever, take photos and don't look in the mirror.
The only exceptions are small mirrors that men will use to shave their beards, but these mirrors will only show half of their faces. Even their dolls are made without faces. Amish homes do not have electricity or indoor plumbing other than cold water in the kitchen and laundry rooms. Kerosene lamps are used to light homes. They do not have phones in the houses either.
Some businessmen and women do have cell phones, but they are not kept in the house. Rather, they are kept in buildings where they can be charged. That means that they typically won't answer a call, but they will call back when they can. Growing up, children will attend a one-room school until the eighth grade, after which point they will go back home to receive informal education.
They also don't drive cars. Instead, they use horse-drawn buggies. In Fillmore County, it is very common for drivers to share the road with these buggies. That being said, for the Miller family, at about 7.05 on the morning of September 25th, according to Menno, their family's buggy arrived to their home to pick up the children.
A little bit later in the morning, four of the children, aged 7, 9, 11, and 13, all piled into the buggy to head to school as the rest of the children continued their chores. But tragically, those kids would never make it to school again.
By around 8.26am, emergency services received a call from a hysterical and frantic woman to report a horrific accident that just occurred on County Road 1 in Stewartville. First responders arrived to the scene by 8.37am where they saw a silver Toyota 4Runner SUV with front end damage parked along the shoulder in the southbound lane.
There were debris along the roadway, shoulder, and within a nearby ditch. Also in the ditch, they saw an Amish buggy and a horse which appeared to be deceased. They then found four children. Two children were lying on the road and two children were lying in the ditch. It was clear that this SUV had hit the buggy and caused this horrific crash.
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Chapter 2: How did the Miller family's lifestyle influence the tragedy?
Meanwhile, their two siblings were both in critical condition. It was later found that their older sister sustained severe road rash to her face, while their nine-year-old brother sustained a broken left shoulder, a lacerated kidney, torn spleen, a concussion, and a brain bleed. Clearly, again, This was a devastating crash.
At this point, multiple witnesses had gathered on scene to speak with officers about what they saw. A man named Tristan was identified as being the first person to arrive on scene. He said that he saw the SUV and the buggy as well as the girl lying in the road and stopped to help.
He saw a woman who he figured was the driver of the SUV standing on the side of the road talking on the phone, so he assumed she was calling 911. He described the driver as a blonde white woman wearing a red and black Hy-Vee employee shirt. The next witness was a man named Leroy. He said that he and his wife were in their own buggy when they happened upon the crash.
They actually knew the family, so his wife went to notify the family while Leroy stayed on scene to talk to police. He said that he saw a woman on the phone flailing her arms around and yelling, but he wasn't sure if she was talking to 911 or a friend based on how she was talking. He described that she was tall, blonde, white woman wearing a black shirt.
He remembered that he also saw another lady at the scene that looked very similar to the woman wearing a black shirt. He said that he wasn't sure how the other lady got there. She was just sort of there. As one officer was speaking with those witnesses, another officer approached the two women on scene who were standing near the silver SUV.
One of the women approached the officer, introducing herself as Sarah Beth Peterson. She was clearly visibly upset and admitted that she was the driver of the car that hit the Amish buggy. Of course, the officer asked for her driver's license so she got it. But she went over to a black SUV that was parked nearby and got it from there.
At that point, the other woman on scene identified herself as Samantha Jo Peterson, Sarah's sister. She then showed them a temporary ID with her name on it. She told officers that she had actually taken her sister's wallet from Sarah and put it in the black SUV. At that point, the officer brought Sarah into his patrol car to speak privately, but of course, he recorded their conversation.
There, he asked her to explain what happened. She said that she had been driving but didn't see the buggy. It had been on the road towards the middle of the road when she hit them. When asked where she was headed, she had that she was headed home from work in Rochester. He asked if she worked overnights, and she said no.
She worked the day shift, but she was headed home to make sure her kids were out of bed and got them to school before starting work at 10 a.m. Obviously, she just contradicted herself in that statement, so the officer asked her again what she was doing in Rochester. So this time she said that she was actually at work to get her paycheck.
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Chapter 3: What details emerged from the accident scene investigation?
But beyond that, we know that the 911 call came in at 826 a.m. Sarah was seen driving that black SUV at 8 30 a.m. All the while we know that Samantha was headed south from Rochester. The time that the crash took place is right around the time that it would have taken for her to be in that area if she drove there straight from work.
So based on this, who is more likely to have been responsible for the crash? From there, officers then got a warrant to search Samantha's home, cell phone, as well as get a blood and urine sample from her. They went to her last known address.
But when they got there, they were met with Sarah, who said that Samantha wasn't there and actually didn't live there anymore, though she did stay there from time to time. At this point, officers had learned more information about the whole situation. So while they had Sarah, they asked her more questions.
She ended up telling them that she was wearing the red and black Hy-Vee shirt that morning, even though she was never seen wearing it. And Samantha was seen wearing it on body cam footage. She also explained that after hitting the buggy, she was so freaked out that she first called Samantha, waited for Samantha to arrive on scene, and then had her call 911 for her.
So that explains why she is on the call and not her. After this conversation, the officer told Sarah that they had a warrant to search the residence, so she needed to step outside. And once officers made their way through the home, they realized that Samantha was in fact home after all. At that time, they made her hand over her cell phone and took a sample of blood and urine from her.
Later results from the blood sample did confirm that Samantha had methamphetamine, amphetamine, and delta-9-THC in her system. Then, after executing the search warrant on Samantha's phone, they basically hit a gold mine. Everything they needed to know was right there on her phone.
They found several text messages between Samantha and someone named Dan and her phone dated between the morning of September 25th and 26th, 2023. Dan texted Samantha saying, "'This little girl got killed today. So sad.'" In addition to those texts, they also found numerous Google searches, which included... What happens if you get into an accident with an Amish buggy and kill two people?
How to lock an iPhone cops have. If you hit a buggy and kill two people, are you going to prison? She literally told someone that she knew. Point blank period. I hit a buggy and I killed two people and then I made Sarah take the blame for it. There's no question. There's no like, oh, I wonder if she did it. I wonder what happened.
I wonder how this whole situation, I wonder what devious plot these two twins came up with. She literally told someone and then she made numerous Google searches about it. So based on everything we've learned up to this point, it's extremely obvious that Samantha is actually the one who caused the accident. She was likely tired from work, took some meth, was high on that meth,
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