Born March 20, 1969, to Gary and Candace Stevenson in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They were the proprietors of Stevenson Hardware in the northwest part of the city. Miles grew up working with his dad and sisters Shannon and Bethany at the Hardware Store. Shannon is the eldest by two years and Bethany came along in 1972. Even at two years of age Shannon tried to mother Miles and it seemed to never really change. When Bethany came along Shannon did the same thing with her, but Miles became the fierce defender of his younger sister from everything, even Shannon’s mothering at times. All three attended Catholic schools and graduated from St Mary’s in Cheyenne.

Miles graduated in the class of ’87 and promptly joined the Navy. Although he rarely saw the deck of a ship, much less a ship at all, he served four years. Why the navy? Like most young Midwesterners, he wanted to see what an ocean looked like. The closest he got was Training on the edge of the Pacific at San Diego, California and duty at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at Oak Harbor Washington. 

Although he never talks about it, Miles served as a military police officer at Oak Harbor for three and a half years. Much of it guarding the gates, but he was part of an extensive investigation into the gruesome rape and murder of an Oak Harbor High School student whose body he found on base. It happened toward the end of his hitch in 1991, and it left a deep scar on his soul. A story he has yet to tell.

Miles met Celeste Cartwright, through one of his shipmates at Whidbey. She lived with her parents, Allan and Donna, in Bellevue at the time and it was quite a commute from Whidbey, so their romance grew very slowly. But she was always quick to pick up the phone and they wore out the lines between Oak Harbor and Bellevue. 

Miles always dreamed of being a police officer in a big city. He had the choice of which big city in the whole of the United States he would move to. Guess what prompted him to apply to the Seattle Police Academy? 

After his discharge he decided to move back home to Cheyenne to wait to hear whether he’d been accepted or not. In 1992 he entered the academy, found an inexpensive apartment in the White Center area and found a job in a local Hardware Store in West Seattle, part time.

Miles Stevenson married his sweetheart, Celeste Cartwright, December 14, 1993.

At first it was tough. A hardware store wage can’t pay that much and Celeste’s job at the time, was in the downtown offices of the US West Telephone Company. The little Apartment didn’t offer much room to expand their little family, but they were satisfied.

Miles’s graduation from the Academy came four months later in April 1994. Shortly afterward he became a full-fledged Seattle police officer as well as an expectant father. Their first child was, unfortunately, lost in a miscarriage and it was a year later that Caitlyn was born, October 10, 1995. Then came Miles Jr. November 29, 1996, not to be followed until four years later with James’ birth, October 2, 2000. With James, their family was complete. 

It was 1997 when they were finally able to use Miles’s G.I. bill to purchase a little house on Mary Street in the Crown Hill area of north Seattle and claim a space of their own. That’s where they are when this story begins. 

Physical Description: Caucasian – Male – 6 feet 1 inch – 178 lbs – Hair Auburn – Athletic build – Clean shaven (normally), Beard growth reddish – eyes brown, slightly sunken – high cheekbones – Nose straight and narrow, no longer smooth due to being broken when a teenager – Thin lips, average mouth, smiles more to right side, good teeth but left canine failed to emerge in childhood leaving a gap – Neck size sixteen and a half –  proportional to body.