Laura Mills, 65, and her husband Guy Mills, 65, were found shot to death in their ransacked Breezewood home in Bedford County in the early hours of January 1, 1978. The scene suggested a violent home invasion and robbery; the couple had been killed with a shotgun and the attack shocked the local community. The crime went unsolved for decades and left the Mills family without answers.

In 2021 Edward A. Surratt, a convicted serial killer and former long-haul truck driver, confessed to the killings of Guy and Laura Mills as part of a broader admission of six Pennsylvania slayings during a late-1970s spree. Prosecutors in the relevant counties declined to pursue charges, citing Surratt’s existing life sentences and a desire to spare families a trial.