( CNN ) -- You can run , the saying goes . Joseph Lewis Miller spent more than 33 years hiding , ducking police for a murder charge out of Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , according to a statement from U.S . Marshal Martin Pane . Now 78 , Miller was arrested Monday in Mineola , Texas , where he was living under the alias Roy Eugene Eubanks and serving as a deacon at a church , the statement said . A 1981 arrest warrant charges Miller with murder , committing crimes with a firearm , being a convict in possession of a firearm and carrying a firearm without a license . Harrisburg police accused Miller of killing Thomas Waller in a parking lot adjacent to a hotel in January 1981 . `` The murder occurred more than three decades ago , and while this case presented us with a significant challenge it also exemplifies the dedication , thoroughness and diligence the fugitive task force has toward cold cases , '' Pane said . This was n't the first time Miller was charged with murder . Miller pleaded guilty to killing John H. Lumpkins in Harrisburg in 1960 , and throughout that decade , Pane said , Miller applied to have his sentence commuted , a request that was granted with lifetime state parole in 1971 . Ten years later , Miller became a fugitive after Waller 's death . Recently , the U.S . Marshals Service developed information on a Roy Eugene Eubanks in East Texas , the Marshals Service said . `` Working with photographs more than three decades old , Marshals believed the man named Roy Eugene Eubanks was indeed Joseph Lewis Miller , '' the statement said . Authorities put an East Texas home under surveillance Monday and soon saw a man believed to be Miller . They arrested him without incident and recovered a firearm from the home , the statement said . `` The individual admitted his true identity as Joseph Lewis Miller . He was married and a deacon in his local church , '' according to U.S. marshals . Using his alias , Miller had been receiving Social Security disability benefits for more than two decades , the statement said . He is now in custody in Wood County , Texas , where he awaits court proceedings . `` It is my sincere hope that the victims ' family and the surviving victim can and will rest easier knowing the alleged perpetrator is now in custody , '' Pane said in the statement . Taken : The coldest case ever solved . Police get break in missing girls ' cold case from 1975 . Arrest in 40-year-old murder case . Four decades later , disappearance of 2 missing girls blamed on wreck .
Fugitive Joseph Lewis Miller found living under alias , Roy Eugene Miller , in Texas . Miller was wanted in the January 1981 murder of Thomas Waller in Pennsylvania . Found in Pennsylvania , Miller was deacon and receiving church benefits , U.S. marshals say . Now in hiding in Texas , he awaits an order regarding his extradition .