Savannah police arrested Charles Miller and charged him with murder after asking the public to help find him.

Saturday was a wanted notice. Sunday morning was a murder charge. That is the whole public arc so far. Police have not named the woman, have not said how she died, and have not said what, beyond the label domestic homicide, ties Miller to the house. The charging paperwork is where those blanks get filled in, or become the first thing a defense lawyer has to work with.

Charles Miller, 49, has been arrested and charged with murder in a domestic homicide on Savannah's East 57th Street, WTOC and WJCL reported Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. WTOC said Savannah police announced the arrest in a 9 a.m. update. WJCL reported that police had already named Miller as the suspect and asked the public to help locate him before that announcement.

Officers were called around 5 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, to the 1100 block of East 57th Street for a woman who was unresponsive inside a residence, WTOC and WSAV reported. Fire and EMS personnel pronounced her dead at the scene. Police then called the case a domestic homicide and identified Miller as the man they were looking for. WSAV reported the department told people not to approach him and to call 911 if they saw him.

East 57th Street between Waters Avenue and Live Oak Street was closed while officers worked and later reopened, WTOC reported. Police asked anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 912-234-2020, the homicide unit at 912-651-4362, or to send a tip through the department's app. As of the Sunday morning reports, WTOC, WJCL, and WSAV had not given the woman's name, a cause of death, Miller's relationship to her, the place of the arrest, or the name of a lawyer. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.