Where is Travis Milligan now? Whereabouts explored ahead of Murder in My House on ID
James Bradley
Published Jan 21, 2026
Travis Milligan was just 19 years of age when he was captured and accused of the killing of his grandma, Shirley Wilson, who was viewed as cut to death in the Iowa house the two common in Walk 2002. One of Wilson’s children, Roy, found the 68-year-old mailman lying face-down in a pool of blood at the crime location. The casualty was cut no less than multiple times with a steak blade from the kitchen.
Milligan was accused of first-degree murder after a smear of blood found on his knee and a blood-smudged shirt found at the house tried positive for Wilson’s blood. Specialists accepted he got into a contention with his grandma over cash and drinking, which then prompted the homicide. He was subsequently viewed as blameworthy and condemned to existence without any chance to appeal.
As per reports, Travis Milligan is as of now spending time in jail at the Iowa State Prison in Post Madison, Lee Area.
ID’s Homicide in My Home is scheduled to narrative Shirley Wilson’s many years old cutting passing in an episode named The Executioner Had a Key. The rundown states:
“Winter in Iowa gets an additional chill when a grandma of 12 is viewed as cut to death in her home; with no constrained section, investigators accept she knew her aggressor, leaving the family pondering who has double-crossed them without a second thought.”
The forthcoming episode airs this Tuesday, April 4, at 9 pm ET.
A jury viewed Travis Milligan to be very muchliable in the wounding passing of his 68-year-old grandma, Shirley Wilson, after the indictment claimed that he cut the mailman multiple times with a steak blade from the kitchen since she would not give him a $300 charge discount. The two supposedly got into a contention over cash and Milligan’s drinking. Wilson’s body was tracked down by one of her children the following day.
Milligan purportedly cut his grandma, a mailman, in the home they shared at 824 East 22nd St. in Des Moines. Specialists revealed that proof from the blade wounds recommended that “some were cautious” and that some went “the entire way through her hand,” while others “were to her head,” however the “ones to her chest killed her.”
The charged, who had been dwelling in Wilson’s home for almost two years at the hour of the homicide, recently denied any association in his grandma’s passing and kept up with his blamelessness. He asserted that he was not home at the time she was killed. However, blood proof found on his knee and one of his shirts found at the crime location proposed in any case.
One of the casualty’s children affirmed that he found the 68-year-old’s body on Walk 2, 2002, expressing that “she was laying there, facedown.” When specialists showed up at the crime location, they understood that Travis Milligan was mysteriously gone. He just got back later in the evening, at some point around 10 pm on the day her body was found, and was from there on taken to the police headquarters and questioned.
At the point when gotten some information about his whereabouts the earlier evening, Travis Milliga guaranteed that he was at a strib club with companions and possibly got back after 12 PM when his grandma was as yet alive. He then, at that point, remained at the house for 15-20 minutes, smoked a couple of cigarettes, and strolled to a close by corner shop, where he was gotten by a companion. He professed to have gone through the night at his companion’s home.
Cops, nonetheless, struggled with accepting his record and followed his means from the earlier night when they discovered that he had left the strip club by 12:39 am the evening of the homicide, yet telephone records showed that he settled on the decision to his companion from the store around 2:17 am. They accepted he invested more energy at home than he told specialists.
Around ten months after the fact, Travis Milligan was viewed as at legitimate fault for first-degree murder and condemned to life in jail without the chance of parole. He is presently spending time in jail at the Iowa State Prison in Post Madison, Lee Region.