After months of looking into a local taxidermist from Sheffield, finally some of his customers are getting their animals back.
NewsChannel 5 broke the story about Miller’s Taxidermy closing suddenly leaving many customers high and dry without their deposits or their animals.
NewsChannel 5 Investigator Jonathan Walsh worked with a wildlife officer to help get some progress in the case.
“It’s not a good feeling,” said Tim Klosterman. He’s a well-established big game hunter. He gave Miller’s a huge elk head and a deposit but then heard nothing back about the mount.
“It was probably a good six months of heavy phone calls and hounding him down,” said Klosterman.
Robert Dull from Lorain dropped off a 7-point rack back in November of 2014 then couldn’t get ahold of Miller’s.
“I called him in February and no answer. Contacted him on Facebook…no answer.,” said Dull.
Dull went off to serve our country and just got back Thursday.
“Just sitting at home and I got a notification from you and I was surprised,” said Dull. Surprised after Wildlife Officer Randy White got a couple dozen of Miller’s customers together at the Avon Police Department and got the process going of getting animals back to their rightful owners.
“I don’t know. I couldn’t thank him enough to get this back.”
Klosterman told us he understood bad things can happen and that the owner of Miller’s unfortunately ran into some tough situations.
“At least I got my elk horns back. So, at another time I can try to fulfill the dream of having this elk head mounted,” said Klosterman.
White told us he is planning to meet three more customers tomorrow and give back their animals. He also said the owner of Miller’s, Todd Kinzel, was working with him on this case.
