The Bathroom Slayings Epilogue: The Murder of Mickey Niles

In June 1974, seven-year-old Michael “Mickey” David Niles was asleep in his family’s Abilene home when an intruder entered. Mickey was stabbed once through the heart. His thirteen-year-old sister, Kelly, was stabbed eight times in the back but survived and managed to call for help. Their six-year-old brother Robbie slept through the attack.

Police found no obvious signs of forced entry and no motive. Detectives recovered blood and a latent fingerprint from inside the house, but neither led them to the killer. Kelly provided a description of the man who assaulted her and took the life of her brother, and the Abilene Police pursued leads across Texas and beyond, questioned numerous people, and considered whether Mickey’s murder could be connected to other baffling Abilene killings. Nothing produced an arrest, and the case eventually went cold.

In 1994, investigators entered the fingerprint into a database, but there was no immediate match. Ten years later, a DWI arrest in San Antonio finally connected the print to a suspect who had been stationed at Dyess Air Force Base at the time of Mickey’s murder. DNA testing also linked the man.

More than thirty years after Mickey’s death, the suspect pleaded guilty and received a forty-year prison sentence.

Whether he was responsible for any other Abilene murders remains unknown. If you have any information about the murder of Sharon Watts, Geneva Lucille Jackson, or the death of Juanita Carroll, please contact Abilene Crime Stoppers at (325) 676-8477.

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