Germantown Man Arrested, Charged with Stepfather's Murder

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GERMANTOWN, TN - A Germantown man is behind bars in Arkansas. He's accused of killing his stepfather three and a half years ago.


Gary Parks was arrested at his Germantown home Monday. He's now in jail in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

Parks is charged with capital murder. If convicted in this case, he could face the death penalty. Those who knew him say, they can't believe it.

“He was a nice guy to talk to. Just passing by, he always said hi. I was shocked that it was him” says a neighbor who wanted to be kept anonymous. The neighbor lives just a few doors down from where 38-year-old Gary Parks was arrested.

Police and SWAT team officers stormed parks' apartment on Poplar Woods Circle.

Parks is accused of killing his step father, David Millstein, in June of 2006.

“Dr. Millstein was found deceased in his home from multiple stab wounds” says Mountain Home Police Chief Carry Manuel.

The case gained a lot of attention in Arkansas because Millstein was a well-known doctor.

“He had a really good following of patients from what I understand and the people I know” says Manuel. “I personally knew Dr. Millstein. He was well-loved by his patients in particular.”

So what led up to Millstein's murder? Right now, police aren't commenting on a possible motive. They also won't say if they think Gary Parks acted alone.

Another strange twist to this story-- Gary Parks' father was murdered in 1993 in Little Rock. Jerry Parks was driving home when someone pulled up next to him and shot him three times. That case remains unsolved.

As for Parks’ criminal past-- he was convicted in Little Rock on drug charges in 2005, and on theft charges in 2002. He does not have any prior convictions in Shelby County.

Gary Parks arrested and charged with capitol murder

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The Clinton hit list


Crime news out of Baxter County yesterday is worth repeating because of a relationship to the Clinton Chronicles, Clinton death lists and other fanciful right-wing efforts back in the day to bring down President Bill Clinton with any lie at hand, no matter how bodacious.

Among the most outlandish products was the Clinton death list -- a compilation of deaths of people who supposedly knew too much about the dastardly man from Hope. Here's a typical Clinton Death List. Here's Snopes' debunking of the death lists. One of those on the cited death list is notable, however. This death was a favorite of conspiracists because it was an unsolved killing. Says the list:

JERRY PARKS - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Parks' son [emphasis supplied] said his father was building a dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house

Now the news. The aforementioned son of Jerry Parks, Gary Wayne Parks (pictured in mug shot yesterday), was arrested Monday in his Germantown, Tenn., home and charged in the 2006 murder of his stepfather, Dr. David Millstein of Mountain Home. Gary Parks' mother, Lois, married Millstein sometime after the death of Jerry Parks in 1993. The Baxter Bulletin article notes that Gary Parks has a lengthy criminal record, including drug and theft busts in Pulaski County. No one has been arrested in Jerry Parks' death and nobody has linked Gary Parks to that death. But ....

I do think it's probably safe to take Bill Clinton off the persons-of-interest list in the 1993 case.