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Prosecutors: Failed voodoo led to murder-for-hire plot

Daniel Miller, already in jail on charges of

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Daniel Miller, already in jail on charges of sexually abusing a 17-year-old male employee, was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill the teen to prevent him from testifying. (July 12, 2012)

When voodoo didn't work, an Inwood man in jail on charges that he sexually abused a 17-year-old boy hired a hit man to silence the teen the old-fashioned way, prosecutors said.

Daniel Miller, 45, the owner of a Santeria religious supply store in Inwood, first asked a relative to stick pins and knives into a voodoo doll in a ritual intended to give the teen cancer, prosecutors said in a news...

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