Who was behind Rebekah Gould’s beating death and where is he now? Details explored ahead of NBC Dateline
Sophia Hammond
Updated on February 09, 2026
Northwest Arkansas Junior college understudy Rebekah Gould, 22, disappeared from her beau’s Guion house in September 2004. Abandoned in the house were every last bit of her possessions and a shocking path of blood-stained sleeping cushions, bedding, and walls. Days after the fact, her body was found close to a thruway and specialists presumed that she died of two deadly hits to the head joined with strangulation.
Specialists at first thought Gould’s sweetheart Casey McCullough, who stayed an individual of interest for almost 16 years until his most memorable cousin William Mill operator was connected to the homicide. AftMiller bombed a polygraph test and was fooled into admitting to the homicide in November 2020. After two years, he confessed to first-degree murder and was allowed a 40-year jail term.
As indicated by the Arkansas Division of Revisions, William Mill operator is presently carrying out his extensive punishment at the East Arkansas Provincial Unit.
An impending episode of NBC Dateline is scheduled to narrative Rebekah Gould’s killing from almost twenty years prior. The episode named Mysteries in the Ozarks will air on the channel at 9:00 pm ET this Friday, June 2, 2023.
Here is a gander at the rundown for the episode: In October 2022, William Mill operator, who beat Rebekah Gould the tar out of with a piano leg and afterward unloaded her body on the roadway in September 2004, conceded to one include of first-degree murder regarding the 22-year-old undergrad’s killing. He was then condemned to 40 years in jail and is as of now carrying out his punishment at the East Arkansas Local Unit.
As per the Everyday Mail, Mill operator was captured in November 2020 subsequent to getting back to the US from the Philippines regarding Gould’s homicide case from 2004 who was viewed as beat to death by the side of a thruway. The 44-year-old was captured in Oregon, where he inhabited the time, for killing the 22-year-old quite a while back.
During a meeting, Mill operator admitted to killing Rebekah Gould on the morning of Sept. 20, 2004, at her sweetheart Casey McCullough’s home. McCullough was his most memorable cousin in connection. Mill operator supposedly disguised his pickup truck behind the house, thumped on the front entryway, and went into the house under the misrepresentation of needing to utilize the telephone asserting he was definitely disapproving of his vehicle.
The Arkansas Leftist Newspaper detailed that an oath referenced that “while he [William Miller] was claiming to utilize the telephone, Ms. Gould returned to her room to head to sleep.” The report further states:
“Mr. Mill operator exhorted that when Ms. Gould returned to her room, he then, at that point, recovered a piano leg from a piano that was situated in the parlor. … He then entered Ms. Gould’s room where he started to hit her on numerous occasions with the piano leg.”
As per a similar report, Mill operator guaranteed that in the wake of striking her two times in the head with the piano leg, he choked the casualty to death with a bowtie, shrouded her carcass in a cover, stacked her into the rear of his truck, drove north, and unloaded her body close to Arkansas 9 parkway. Her body was found on September 27, 2004.
Rebekah Gould was remaining at her beau Casey McCullough’s home at that point and was an understudy at Northwest Arkansas Junior college. On the morning of the homicide, that is September 20, 2004, she dropped off her beau at work and afterward came over at a close by general store which was the last time she was at any point seen alive.
McCullough didn’t get back that evening and just swung by at the house the following morning to gather work garments. He later guaranteed that he neglected to see the conspicuous crime location at his home, with a blood-stained sleeping pad and cushion, sheets in the clothes washer, blood on the walls, and a lot of dye all through the house. That very day, Gould was accounted for missing.