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Speaker 1: Micah Miller was thirty years old when she died on
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Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of April twenty twenty four. She had
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Speaker 1: been married to John Paul Miller, a pastor at Solid
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Speaker 1: Rock Church in South Carolina, for seven years. When the
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Speaker 1: pastor's wife was found dead from a single gunshot to
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Speaker 1: the head. All signs pointed towards a conclusion that no
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Speaker 1: one wanted to accept. As the secrets of her past
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Speaker 1: and marriage came to light, a growing chorus of family members, friends, neighbors,
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Speaker 1: online commentators, and the broader media joined the speculation. They
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Speaker 1: believed only one explanation made sense that Micah Miller had
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Speaker 1: not chosen her own fate. She had been murdered.
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Speaker 2: Hi.
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Speaker 1: There, I'm Kevin, and welcome to Just Thought Lounge. Today's
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Speaker 1: case has us unraveling in intricate web of allegations including emotional,
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Speaker 1: mental and spiritual abuse, US murder affairs, corruption in the church,
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Speaker 1: and failures of law enforcement. It is a heartbreaking case
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Speaker 1: that has captured the attention of many. The investigation is
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Speaker 1: now officially closed, a conclusion has been reached and the
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Speaker 1: evidence released to the public. However, speculation continues. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a look. John Paul or j. P. Miller and his
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Speaker 1: future wife, Micah met when she was fourteen years old.
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Speaker 1: Her family had just started attending worship services at Solid
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Speaker 1: Rock Church in Myrtle Beach. JP was a youth pastor
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Speaker 1: at the time, growing into a more significant role at
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Speaker 1: Solid Rock over the following years. When Micah was eighteen
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Speaker 1: years old, John Paul officiated her wedding to his good friend,
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Speaker 1: a man named Jeremy Days both Micah and Jeremy were
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Speaker 1: involved in the church. He ran the sports ministry and
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Speaker 1: she worked on the media team in addition to other responsibilities. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: Micah took on the role as John Paul's secretary and
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Speaker 1: babysitter for his growing family. In twenty fifteen, JP's wife,
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Speaker 1: Allison discovered her husband and their babysitter in a compromising position.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after JP and Micah's affair became public knowledge. In
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, both marriages ended in divorce. Jeremy and Allison
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Speaker 1: each eventually left the Solid Rock Church, where only one
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Speaker 1: year later, JP and Micah were married. At the age
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Speaker 1: of twenty three, Micah became the stepmother to forty four
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Speaker 1: year old John Paul's five children, four from his first
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Speaker 1: marriage with Alison and the eldest from a previous relationship.
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Speaker 1: Micah also took on a greater role within the church
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Speaker 1: as the pastor's wife. She was a worship leader, did
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Speaker 1: graphic design, and oversaw the women's and youth ministries. Micah
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Speaker 1: was also passionate about overseas missions, including her trips to Kenya,
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Speaker 1: where the church was funding religious and educational initiatives. Micah
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Speaker 1: loved to sing. She often led the congregation in song.
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Speaker 3: Give me, take me forward, all that huge change, all
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Speaker 3: my colorss for you.
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Speaker 1: On the twenty seventh of April twenty twenty four, fifty
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Speaker 1: five year old Johnny Jacobs went fishing in the Lumber
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Speaker 1: River in North Carolina. He had been in the state
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Speaker 1: park for several hours when he heard a woman's cries
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Speaker 1: from down the river. From his position the tall, dense
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Speaker 1: tree line, he could not see the woman who was crying.
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Speaker 4: Port in there with my little boat, and maybe five
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Speaker 4: minutes after get into the slave I heard a cry,
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Speaker 4: a faint cry, heard it for maybe two or three minutes,
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Speaker 4: and the crime stopped.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes passed with only the sound of the river,
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Speaker 1: the birds, and the lake breeze before the distinct and
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Speaker 1: unmistakable bang of a gunshot rang out.
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Speaker 4: I said, oh my god, don't tell me. Don't tell me,
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Speaker 4: because the crime had stopped. I said, don't tell me.
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Speaker 4: Something's happened. Don't tell me something. I was getting ready
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Speaker 4: to get out of there. Another three people came into
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Speaker 4: the lake on a boat, and I plainly asked them.
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Speaker 4: I said, did Joe hear that gun shot? They said yes.
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Speaker 1: Johnny made his way towards the direction that he had
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Speaker 1: heard the gunfire. On the bank of the river, he
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Speaker 1: discovered a backpack. With the bag was a pair of
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Speaker 1: glass and a cell phone and.
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Speaker 4: A license, her bank card. She had her keys in
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Speaker 4: the bag. She had a little small bible, oumo credit cards,
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Speaker 4: a bank cards, and a few receipts of some fans.
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Speaker 1: Within minutes, emergency responders arrived at the Lumber River State Park.
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Speaker 1: Called out by a nine to one one call, They
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Speaker 1: immediately began a search on foot and in the air.
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Speaker 1: Just before four thirty pm, roughly an hour and a
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Speaker 1: half after Johnny had heard the shot, a kayaker reported
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Speaker 1: a woman's body in the water. It was thirty year
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Speaker 1: old Micah Miller. She had died of a single gunshot
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Speaker 1: wound to the head. The black Honda Accord that Micah
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Speaker 1: had driven to North Carolina from her home in Myrtle
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Speaker 1: Beach was found in the parking lot. Robinson County detectives
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Speaker 1: looked inside the car and observed a black Sig Sour
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Speaker 1: gun case in the passenger seat and a box of
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Speaker 1: ammunition in the center console of the vehicle. Later that evening,
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Speaker 1: they recovered a Sig Sour nine millimeter firearm from the water.
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Speaker 1: The serial number matched the case. A receipt for the
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Speaker 1: purchase of the weapon was also in the vehicle. It
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Speaker 1: showed that the gun had been acquired only hours earlier
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Speaker 1: from Dick's Pawnshop in Myrtle Beach. Micah Miller was listed
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Speaker 1: as the buyer. The medical examiner was called out to
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Speaker 1: view the scene where the incident occurred, and CSI teams
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Speaker 1: worked the area gathering any potential evidence. When the coroner's
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Speaker 1: report was released, it concluded that Micah had died from
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Speaker 1: a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. It was
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Speaker 1: a conclusion that friends and family members could not accept.
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Speaker 1: It just didn't make sense to them.
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Speaker 5: A hair appointment this week, she plans to attend church
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Speaker 5: with them on Sunday News. When I heard it, it was
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Speaker 5: just I thought it was just some kind of terrible misunderstanding,
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Speaker 5: because she was headed in a positive direction, and she
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Speaker 5: was making plans and had a new purpose that she
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Speaker 5: was pursuing.
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Speaker 6: She was loving her job everything.
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Speaker 1: Additionally, those close to Micah believed that there were far
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Speaker 1: too many reasons to suspect foul play. Their prime suspect
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Speaker 1: Micah's husband, John Paul Miller, and assigned after David. Micah's
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Speaker 1: sister Sierra, quoted her sister only weeks before her death
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Speaker 1: as stating, if I end up with a bullet in
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Speaker 1: my head, it was not by me, it was Jp.
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Speaker 1: Their marriage had been tumultuous. Micah had to try to
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Speaker 1: leave him on multiple occasions, but had been somehow repeatedly
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Speaker 1: pulled back in. That is, until just days before she
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Speaker 1: was found in the river. She had grown resolute in
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Speaker 1: her decision to leave him.
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Speaker 7: I know she had been struggling.
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Speaker 8: She's gotten three different numbers.
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Speaker 5: She's had three different numbers in the last three months,
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Speaker 5: trying to make sure that he did not get her
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Speaker 5: phone number and could not get in contact with her.
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Speaker 5: She messaged me saying, you know, thank you for your
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Speaker 5: gentle warnings over the years about JP or my relationship
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Speaker 5: with JP. You know, I know that you knew I
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Speaker 5: wasn't ready to get out yet. I've replied our commos
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Speaker 5: over and over in our head throughout the years, and
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Speaker 5: wish there was a way I could get out, And
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Speaker 5: now I have with a big smile.
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Speaker 1: Only two days before Micah's death, JP had been served
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Speaker 1: with divorce papers. She had sought to leave JP the
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Speaker 1: year before, in January twenty twenty three, moving to Kansas
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Speaker 1: to be with family members there and to start a
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Speaker 1: new life. In Kansas, she joined a new church and
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Speaker 1: built new friendships, but after only a few months, Micah
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Speaker 1: abruptly left the state, leaving behind a brief and uncharacteristic
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Speaker 1: note stating that she was heading back to So Carolina
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Speaker 1: to be with her husband.
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Speaker 9: We got all text messages when she was leaving. That
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Speaker 9: didn't make any sense. When she was planning on staying
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Speaker 9: in Kansas and she was planning on thriving, she was
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Speaker 9: planning on making trips healing, and all of a sudden
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Speaker 9: we heard nothing. It was a hey, good news, I've
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Speaker 9: been reconciled my husband's allowing me to come back home
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Speaker 9: praise God back.
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Speaker 1: In Myrtle Beach. The marriage continued to deteriorate in a
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Speaker 1: pattern scene all too often, JP went back to the
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Speaker 1: same behaviors, and Micah found herself quickly back to where
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Speaker 1: she started looking for a way out. In cryptic social
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Speaker 1: media posts, Micah spoke out against domestic abuse of all
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Speaker 1: kinds and what has been interpreted as statements about her
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Speaker 1: own experience. The pastor's wife discussed reconciling religious beliefs with
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Speaker 1: a desire to leave an unhealthy marriage.
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Speaker 10: I just want to tell you what a lot of
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Speaker 10: people have told me lately and reminded me, because I
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Speaker 10: think I forgot I knew, but for I pushed it
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Speaker 10: in the back of my head just because of my situation.
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Speaker 10: But you are the bride of Christ before anybody else's bride.
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Speaker 11: God hates divorce.
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Speaker 10: But why According to everybody I've asked and the scriptures
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Speaker 10: that I've found, it's because it hurts people. But does
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Speaker 10: abuse hurt people? How do you think God feels about that?
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Speaker 10: That I'm God's pride first? And even an earthly spouse
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Speaker 10: who's a good spouse when they know that their bride
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Speaker 10: is being hurt.
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Speaker 11: Just imagine what an earthly spouse does.
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Speaker 10: What do you think your heavenly spouse does when you're
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Speaker 10: the bride of Christ and he sees his bride going
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Speaker 10: through abuse and hurt? What do you think he thinks
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Speaker 10: about that?
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Speaker 1: Micah filed for divorce later that year in October twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, but in February of the next year, she
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Speaker 1: withdrew the papers. That month, Micah was admitted to hospital
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Speaker 1: for mental health treatment against her will. She claimed that
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Speaker 1: her husband had committed her He had also taken her wallet,
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Speaker 1: her keys, and her car, so when she was released,
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Speaker 1: Micah reported her vehicle stolen to police. The report states
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Speaker 1: that John Paul told police that his wife had mental
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Speaker 1: health issues. He said that she had episodes annually around
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Speaker 1: the holidays, during which time she would recklessly spend large
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Speaker 1: sums of money. He justified taking her car by explaining
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Speaker 1: that he was preventing her from selling it, and he
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Speaker 1: refused to give it back for several weeks. There was
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Speaker 1: little that Myrtle Beach police could do with this information.
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Speaker 1: The couple were still married, which meant that MICA's vehicle
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Speaker 1: was marital property. Legally, her husband could not have stolen it.
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Speaker 12: Thank you for all your prayers and support. Know that
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Speaker 12: I have to keep my circle really, really small right now.
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Speaker 12: I'm used to having a really big circle.
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Speaker 10: So it's hard because I want to reach out to
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Speaker 10: everybody and tell you how much I love you and
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Speaker 10: I miss you. This is the best way that I
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Speaker 10: know how so I love you all.
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Speaker 11: I miss you.
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Speaker 1: After filing for divorce in the autumn, Micah grew concerned
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Speaker 1: that she was being stalked by her estranged husband. Twice,
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Speaker 1: she found that a sharp metal object had slashed the
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Speaker 1: tires to her vehicle. When this happened the first time,
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Speaker 1: a mechanic from the Haunted dealership fixing the vehicle found
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Speaker 1: a GPS tracking device attached to the car. As if
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Speaker 1: to confirm what Micah had already intuitively known that John
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Speaker 1: Paul was tracking her movements, he turned up at the
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Speaker 1: dealership to confront her.
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Speaker 7: Way the pictures. You want to go to jail, go
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Speaker 7: be on Facebook.
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Speaker 10: Who alrighty, You'll be in jail in a few hours.
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Speaker 11: Walk away.
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Speaker 1: Another complaint to police about the GPS tracker led to
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Speaker 1: the same result. JP made claims that his wife was
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Speaker 1: mentally unstable. He claimed that shortly after their wedding in
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, she was diagnosed by polar II, schizophrenic and
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Speaker 1: dependent personality disorder. He then claimed the GPS tracker was
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Speaker 1: on the car for her own safety as long as
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Speaker 1: she took her medication. The pastor said his wife would
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Speaker 1: be fine, but that Micah had a roller coaster relationship
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Speaker 1: with her meds. Earlier in the year, the wife of
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Speaker 1: a well meaning pastor friend offered to pray for her
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Speaker 1: and believed that her mental illness would go away. According
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Speaker 1: to JP, this led Micah to believe that she no
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Speaker 1: longer needed the medication. With the limited information available at
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Speaker 1: that time, the responding officer took no action. The vehicle
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Speaker 1: remained marital property. By extension, the GPS tracker on the car.
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Speaker 7: Was as well.
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Speaker 1: In an email sent to Micah, John Paul apologized to
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Speaker 1: her for the use of the trackers, but as Micah
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Speaker 1: moved forward with the divorce, the pastor continued to lash out.
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Speaker 1: On April eighth, Micah spoke to police yet again. This
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Speaker 1: time she told him that her husband had posted an
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Speaker 1: indecent photograph of her on Facebook. Micah told police she
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Speaker 1: had sent her husband the photograph about six months before.
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Speaker 1: Before being posted, Parts of the photo had been blurred,
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Speaker 1: so it did not meet South Carolina's Code of law
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Speaker 1: for nudity. Officers told Micah that as the photo had
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Speaker 1: been posted online anonymously, there was no way to prove
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Speaker 1: her husband was behind its publication, though once it had
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Speaker 1: been sent to him, it would have been legally his.
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Speaker 1: Yet again, there were no actions taken against the pastor,
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Speaker 1: though Micah told police that she feared for her safety,
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Speaker 1: explaining that she had come to understand that her husband
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Speaker 1: had groomed her since twenty ten, when she first met
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Speaker 1: him as her youth pastor at the age of about fourteen.
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Speaker 1: John paulm was fourteen years older. At that time, he
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Speaker 1: was already married and the father of a few children.
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Speaker 1: JP adamantly denies this depiction of their relationship. Micah's last
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Speaker 1: Facebook post was from April ninth, when she wrote, when terrible, terrible,
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Speaker 1: terrible things happened to you, y'all know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: RPF resting peace face.
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Speaker 13: You don't have to stay in an abusive relationship, whether
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Speaker 13: that's sexual, whether that's somebody forcing you to take illegal.
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Speaker 11: Drugs or alcohol abuse or physical abuse, psychological abuse, making
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Speaker 11: you think that this is all your fault or your
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Speaker 11: bad mom, or you're bad why, or your bad husband, or.
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Speaker 10: You're not giving it your all when you know you are.
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Speaker 1: Less than a week after the last police report, Micah
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Speaker 1: found a GPS tracker on her vehicle for a second time.
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Speaker 1: She filed for divorce the next day. It would take
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Speaker 1: about a week before those papers were served to JP,
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Speaker 1: but only two days after that Micah was dead.
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Speaker 14: JP personally called me and said, Hey, Michael bought a gun.
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Speaker 14: She's out in the backyard. Where you think she bought
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Speaker 14: it to shoot me? I don't know, JP, I don't
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Speaker 14: know what's going on in the house that that would
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Speaker 14: be a reason he was scared. I was wondering, do
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Speaker 14: you think she bought it to shoot me? Well, you know,
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Speaker 14: why would that be a question? And if you wouldn't
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Speaker 14: miss treating.
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Speaker 7: Her the greatest wife thing one could ask for. She
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Speaker 7: was cleverly a fertment. We spent every night together for
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Speaker 7: hours just talking.
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Speaker 1: To the only individual in Micah's life who appeared to
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Speaker 1: be unfazed by her tragic death was her own husband.
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Speaker 1: In the days after she was found, John Paul gave
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Speaker 1: no indications as to the turbulent nature of his marriage.
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Speaker 1: In her obituary, described by MICA's friends as a narcissist's ramblings,
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Speaker 1: he wrote of Micah, she and JP have been friends
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Speaker 1: since two thousand and nine, married in twenty seventeen, and
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Speaker 1: spent almost every single day and night together. Micah made
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Speaker 1: the greatest of efforts to always be the best wife
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Speaker 1: she could be. She would praise her husband after every
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Speaker 1: church service, telling him he was the best preacher in
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Speaker 1: the world, even if it wasn't true. She also told
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Speaker 1: him he was the funniest preacher in the world, even
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Speaker 1: though that wasn't true either. The day following her death,
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Speaker 1: the pastor decided to break the news to their church
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Speaker 1: congregation in a casual and unsettling announce that that followed
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Speaker 1: his servant, I'm going to alter.
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Speaker 7: Call today instead. Instead, I'm gonna have you stand up,
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Speaker 7: and I'm gonna make an announcement. And after the announcement,
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Speaker 7: I'm going to ask that you we leave church quietly
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Speaker 7: and don't talk about the announcement here in the building. Pleasy.
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Speaker 7: If you can't see, y'all can stand to your feet
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Speaker 7: before I make the announcement. I also want to say that
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Speaker 7: my request to you is that you will continue to
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Speaker 7: come to church and serve and give for the next
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Speaker 7: you know, little bit, because I don't want to have
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Speaker 7: I'm taking a little bit of a break and I
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Speaker 7: don't want to have to worry about the church my break.
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Speaker 7: Maybe a few days, a few weeks, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I got a call late last night. My wife has
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Speaker 7: passed away. Yeah, and it was it was self induced,
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Speaker 7: and it was up in North Carolina. And we're gonna
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Speaker 7: have a funeral for her next Sunday here at three
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Speaker 7: p m. And so I'm it's all I can. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I'm just kind of going on adrenaline right now. So
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Speaker 7: y'all pray for me and my kids and every and
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Speaker 7: she wasn't y'all knew that she wasn't well mentally and
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Speaker 7: then she needed a medicine that was hard to get
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Speaker 7: to her. And so I'm sure there'll be more details
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Speaker 7: to come, but just keep our family in your prayers.
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Speaker 7: And I'm going to let Pastor Randall Bishop he can pray.
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Speaker 7: I get a micro if I'll pray out and if
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Speaker 7: you have anything you want to share as well. I
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Speaker 7: appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Micah Miller had been found in the water less than
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours earlier. The coroner had not made a
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Speaker 1: determination as to the nature or cause of her death
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Speaker 1: when JP made this announcement, and the Robinson County Police
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Speaker 1: were still treating the incident as a suspicious death. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: the pastor pointed immediately to his wife's alleged mental state,
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Speaker 1: declaring that her death was it self induced. The pastor
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Speaker 1: appears to have been far more vocal regarding his wife's
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Speaker 1: alleged mental illness than his own. Indeed, many of the
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Speaker 1: details of John Paul's personal life before his marriage to
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Speaker 1: Micah stayed hidden for year. That changed when he came
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Speaker 1: under scrutiny in the wake of his wife's death. A
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Speaker 1: video posted on Facebook by one of JP's neighbors, dated
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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, shows John Paul experiencing what some are
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Speaker 1: calling a drug induced psychosis. In the video, he explained
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Speaker 1: to an unidentified person that his medication had been changed
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Speaker 1: he felt ants crawling all over him, but in the
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Speaker 1: video there are no ants.
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Speaker 15: I think I think Marcus coming. I had had him,
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Speaker 15: trying to get tested with him again to make sure okay.
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Speaker 15: There's no ants on you though. It's just you know,
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Speaker 15: maybe if that's how you feel. But there's none on you,
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Speaker 15: there's none on the grass. What kind of medicine do
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Speaker 15: they have?
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Speaker 4: I can okay, I think he's.
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Speaker 11: I think he's.
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Speaker 16: Here's some water, jp some water. You won't up, you
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Speaker 16: won't trust it up, or you want to put it
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Speaker 16: to your house up. Okay.
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Speaker 1: The poster of the video, a man named Tye, wrote
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Speaker 1: alongside his post, I believe the saying goes getting a
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Speaker 1: taste of your own medicine. You have used and abused
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Speaker 1: for way too long, only to get up on that
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Speaker 1: pulpit and consistently discredit your victims by air out intentionally
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Speaker 1: degrading in appropriate personal information. Doing that allows you to
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Speaker 1: control the narrative. Now we have the death of your
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Speaker 1: wife that you claim only took her life because of
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Speaker 1: mental illness. The fact is nobody was ever mental until
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Speaker 1: they met you. In the lengthy post, Tie provides possible
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Speaker 1: explanations for how the pastor could have gotten away with
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Speaker 1: such atrocious behavior for so long. He writes, the reason
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Speaker 1: why most people didn't speak up is because they know
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Speaker 1: your reaction is ruthless. You have a little bit of
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Speaker 1: local power with enough financial resources to hurt people legally,
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Speaker 1: and they fear putting their family at risk. And the
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Speaker 1: few others that don't speak up believe it's not the
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Speaker 1: Christian thing to do well. Neither is doing nothing. John
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Speaker 1: Paul's troubles began at an early age. As a teenager,
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Speaker 1: he earned a criminal record for incidents of delinquency, driving
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Speaker 1: under the influence, and assault. The most concerning incident occurred
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Speaker 1: when he was nineteen years old. It was February nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety eight. Families in the Bride Creek subdivision of Myrtle
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Speaker 1: Beach were sandbaging homes in response to extreme flooding. Defying
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Speaker 1: the road closed to sign, JP entered the neighborhood in
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Speaker 1: a silver S ten pickup truck with black tape covering
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Speaker 1: the license plate. According to court records, JP accelerated his
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Speaker 1: truck into a nineteen year old woman who had asked
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Speaker 1: him to slow his vehicle. Then he continued to drive
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Speaker 1: for about one hundred yards with her clinging onto the
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Speaker 1: hood before he slowed and she was able to safely
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Speaker 1: roll off. The court ordered that he received a suspended
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Speaker 1: sentence of four years three years of probation, five hundred
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Speaker 1: hours of community service, and in order to pay court fees.
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Speaker 1: On May thirty one, twenty twenty two, Paul applied and
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Speaker 1: received a pardon for this conviction. Social media and some
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Speaker 1: news outlets have become rampant with suspicions and accusations leveled
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Speaker 1: at the pastor related not only to his wife's death,
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Speaker 1: but of other alleged nefarious behavior. It emerged that the
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Speaker 1: pastor was having an affair with a woman in the
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Speaker 1: Solid Rock congregation named Susie Skinner. Susie, seen out for
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Speaker 1: Margarita's and shots with JP four days after Micah's death,
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Speaker 1: has formerly denied that she is dating the pastor. Former
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Speaker 1: church members and friends of JP and Micah said that
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Speaker 1: the relationship was public and had been going on for
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Speaker 1: some time. What was not openly discussed was the suspicious
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Speaker 1: death of Susie's husband, Christopher. Christopher had been wheelchair bound
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Speaker 1: following a drunk driving accident in two thousand. He met
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Speaker 1: Susie through his rehabilitation and later became an inspirational ste
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Speaker 1: speaker and author. On September sixth, twenty twenty one, Christopher
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Speaker 1: drowned at a community pool in Myrtle Beach when his
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Speaker 1: wheelchair tipped into the pool and he became trapped underneath it.
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Speaker 1: He was forty one years old.
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Speaker 17: He then allegedly begins another affair with a church member
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Speaker 17: who has a husband who uses a wheelchair who mysteriously
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Speaker 17: ended up dead and drowned in a pool.
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Speaker 8: Is that accurate.
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Speaker 7: Yes, that's what we've been told by people who have
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Speaker 7: reached out.
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Speaker 15: We've spoken to former church members, We've spoken to current
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Speaker 15: church members.
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Speaker 1: An investigation into Christopher's death found no signs of foul play.
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Speaker 1: Security camera footage of the community center showed that he
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Speaker 1: had been there alone, though this did not explain why
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Speaker 1: his chair abruptly accelerated forward into the pool. Death has
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Speaker 1: been ruled an accident. JP's ex wife, Allison, has accused
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Speaker 1: her ex husband of having a sexual addiction and behaving
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Speaker 1: inappropriately with the teenagers at his church. One of these teens,
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Speaker 1: now a grown woman, took to Facebook to tell her story,
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Speaker 1: alleging that John Paul once forced himself on her. John
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Speaker 1: Paul Miller has been removed from his position as pastor
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Speaker 1: at the Solid Rock Church, though he is still technically
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Speaker 1: employed there. None of the pastor's history makes him guilty
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Speaker 1: of his wife's murder. He may very well be guilty
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Speaker 1: of other crimes that are now emerging, but it is
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Speaker 1: too early to tell. What we do know is that
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Speaker 1: Micah had been keeping track of her husband's transgressions. She
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Speaker 1: kept detailed diaries that likely recorded contemporaneous reflections of the
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Speaker 1: abuse that she allegedly suffered at his hands. She knew
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Speaker 1: about the other women. There were allegedly quite a few.
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Speaker 1: There is also reason to believe that he was stealing
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Speaker 1: donations intended for the church and its charitable activities. In
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Speaker 1: mid March, John Paul was reported to police by another
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Speaker 1: church member for transferring almost two thousand dollars from the
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Speaker 1: dare To Care mission in Kenya to his own personal account.
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Speaker 1: Although her name does not appear in the police report,
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Speaker 1: Micah is thought to have also been implicated in this
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Speaker 1: donation scheme alongside JP, as the anonymously named involved other
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Speaker 1: on the report. Her family believes that making her complicit
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Speaker 1: in JP's schemes was another way that he sought to
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Speaker 1: control her. Yet another police report was filed after Micah's death,
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Speaker 1: when John Paul arrived at the apartment building where Micah
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Speaker 1: had been living to collect her belongings. Her family believes
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Speaker 1: that his intentions that day were to collect the diaries
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Speaker 1: and other documents that could incriminate him. On that occasion,
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Speaker 1: it was the pastor himself who phoned law enforcement. According
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Speaker 1: to the report, the leasing agent would not let him
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Speaker 1: into the home to take his wife's things because they
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Speaker 1: didn't like him very much. It was Micah's sister, Sierra,
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Speaker 1: who came into possession of her documents. They are now
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Speaker 1: being sorted by her lawyer.
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Speaker 6: The mounds of paper that I have is incredible. She
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Speaker 6: collected a lot of things. She count the notebook. I
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Speaker 6: have boxes of journals, which, by the way, he's made
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Speaker 6: a hundred phone calls looking for as I understand, and
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Speaker 6: he is constantly trying to stay in front of this
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Speaker 6: spends some story and.
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Speaker 1: The investigation into MICA's death continued. After the coroner offered
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Speaker 1: their conclusion, the Robinson County Police released a report timeline, video, surveillance,
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Speaker 1: and other evidence compiled in the course of their investigation.
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Speaker 1: Their conclusions were not well received. The ring camera outside
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Speaker 1: of the apartment where Micah was living captured her leaving
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Speaker 1: the home at ten thirteen a m. On Saturday, April
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Speaker 1: twenty seventh, the day she died. She returned at eleven
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Speaker 1: a m Micah was alone. She left again a few
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Speaker 1: minutes later and drove to Dick's Pawnshop in Myrtle Beach,
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Speaker 1: where a camera caught her exiting her car and entering
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Speaker 1: the superstore. In the store, at just past noon, Micah
29:31
Speaker 1: is shown independently purchasing the sig Sour handgun. She passed
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Speaker 1: a criminal background check and was able to leave the
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Speaker 1: store with the gun immediately. Her phone search history showed
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Speaker 1: that she searched for a national park, returning the directions
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Speaker 1: for lumber River State Park. On the way to the park,
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Speaker 1: she stopped off at a gas station where she purchased
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Speaker 1: a drink. The receipt was found in her car, and
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Speaker 1: security camera footage in the store showed her once again
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Speaker 1: shopping alone. Micah carried on to the state park. Once there,
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Speaker 1: mike A placed a call to.
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Speaker 18: Nine one Rmlston County. Now one one, what's the address
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Speaker 18: of your emergency?
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Speaker 19: Hi?
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Speaker 20: Are you able to trace the location of my phone?
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Speaker 18: Let me see you don't know where you're at.
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Speaker 20: A national park? I have my location on I think
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Speaker 20: on my phone. Find my phone is on.
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Speaker 18: I don't thank you are Ian Robinson County? Yeah, LUMBI
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Speaker 18: the Lumber River State Park.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, that's where I am.
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Speaker 18: Tell me what's happened.
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Speaker 20: I just want my family to know where to find me.
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Speaker 1: The final statement that Micah made to the operator was
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Speaker 1: to state her intentions what she was about to do.
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Speaker 1: She only wanted her family to be able to locate her.
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Speaker 1: Despite this, there are those online who have claimed to
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Speaker 1: hear a man's voice in the background, perhaps convincing her
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Speaker 1: to lie on the phone call. Still, others have suggested
31:16
Speaker 1: that the voice on the call is not Micah at all,
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Speaker 1: but produced by AI as a part of John Paul
31:22
Speaker 1: Miller's plan to get away with murder. Conspiracy theories that
31:28
Speaker 1: have picked up steam include accusing Johnny the Fisherman of
31:32
Speaker 1: being the gunman. Others say that JP had another accomplice
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Speaker 1: with whom he switched cell phones to throw off any
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Speaker 1: location data. These theories all aim to point the finger
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Speaker 1: at JP as the killer, even though he seems to
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Speaker 1: have a rock solid alibi. The night before Micah was shot,
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Speaker 1: JP drove to a sporting event in Charleston, a roughly
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Speaker 1: three hour drive south of Lumber River Park. In North Carolina.
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Speaker 1: The investigation located multiple eyewitnesses who confirmed that the pastor
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Speaker 1: was at this event all weekend. License plate readers tracked
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Speaker 1: his truck en route to and from Charleston to further
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Speaker 1: corroborate the witnesses. Despite misinformation being released to the contrary,
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Speaker 1: the investigative report clearly states that there were multiple passengers
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Speaker 1: traveling together. Although JP was reported to be traveling with
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Speaker 1: his new girlfriend, his alibi is not dependent upon her
32:32
Speaker 1: word alone. He simply could not have been with Micah
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Speaker 1: when she died or been the person who pulled the trigger,
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Speaker 1: though whether he still bears responsibility for her death in
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Speaker 1: other ways is a separate question. On Sunday May twelfth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, John Paul held a funeral for Micah
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Speaker 1: at the Solid Rock Church. Her family did not attend.
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Speaker 7: I can't even if I had ten hours today, that
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Speaker 7: wouldn't be enough time to tell you all the great
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Speaker 7: things about her and what it was like to be
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Speaker 7: intimate relationship with her. You know, I still can hear
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Speaker 7: a voice, and I can still picture just walking in
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Speaker 7: the front door. And it was a great step mom.
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Speaker 7: She in fact, she did so much work with the
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Speaker 7: kids all the time. She was the one that would
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Speaker 7: always help pick them up from school and get their food,
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Speaker 7: and she'd take Sailor, my daughter all the time to
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Speaker 7: get their nails done, or to go to Lulu Limon
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Speaker 7: or all these special early girly things, you know. And
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Speaker 7: I appreciated that from the very very beginning. Not once
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Speaker 7: did she ever ever complained about me having five kids.
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Speaker 7: And this was my favorite parody that she did give me.
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Speaker 7: Take me for imagine being married to that. It was
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Speaker 7: like that in our house all the time. Y'all stand
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Speaker 7: on your feet, and Pastor Randall's going to close in prayer.
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Speaker 1: The report released by Robinson County Sheriff Bernice Wilkins concluded
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Speaker 1: that unfortunately, rumors and conspiracy theories were spreading quickly and
34:47
Speaker 1: assumptions were being made. However, in the end, we must
34:51
Speaker 1: make decisions based on the facts and evidence that has
34:54
Speaker 1: been gathered. While I know it's not what many people
34:57
Speaker 1: wanted to hear, the evidence is quite clear and compelling
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Speaker 1: and we are as saddened as anyone that this occurred.
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Speaker 1: The report did not end the speculation. Indeed, the evidence
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Speaker 1: released has now been scrutinized in an effort to discredit
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Speaker 1: its conclusions.
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Speaker 2: Whoa whoa, That truck is ten and black? How do
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Speaker 2: I know who's in it? And also how do I
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Speaker 2: know he was at an athletic event and was he
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Speaker 2: there the whole time? And how far away is that
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Speaker 2: event from where Micah was killed.
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Speaker 1: Independent media is questioning why a small cross tattoo on
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Speaker 1: Micah's hand is not visible from the camera angle at
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Speaker 1: the pawn shop while she purchased the gun. Videos have
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Speaker 1: been published questioning the timestamps on the security footage from
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Speaker 1: the parking lot, perhaps suggesting that the footage has been altered.
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Speaker 1: Many do not wish to accept the nine to one
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Speaker 1: one call happened at all.
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Speaker 8: I really hope that once this nine one one phone
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Speaker 8: call is released, somebody can dissect it and look at it,
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Speaker 8: a professional that could say, Okay, yeah, this is AI generated,
36:08
Speaker 8: because there are ways to do that, because I'm not
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Speaker 8: buying this for a second.
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Speaker 1: If this guy had solid rock. Church leaders have reported
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Speaker 1: receiving harassing phone calls and messages. The coroner who performed
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Speaker 1: the medical exam has received threats, so as Johnny Jacobs,
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Speaker 1: the fishermen from the state park. He has now appeared
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Speaker 1: on multiple news outlets declaring his innocence. As these theories spread,
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Speaker 1: so do the allegations and online abuse.
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Speaker 4: I want just to stop as far as making I
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Speaker 4: don't want to make this all about me, because I'm
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Speaker 4: still thinking about my I'm trying to respect her family
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Speaker 4: and I got told to respect for them, and I
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Speaker 4: am so sorry for what they're going through. I never
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Speaker 4: thought my day would turn.
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Speaker 14: Out right now.
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Speaker 1: John Paul has hired a lawyer. Letters have been issued
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Speaker 1: calling for an end to the accusations of murder and
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Speaker 1: other abusive behavior directed at JP that is proliferating online.
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Speaker 6: I felt like I had come across the answer of
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Speaker 6: maybe why she would have taken it this far, and
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Speaker 6: that is he had her convinced that this was what
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Speaker 6: she should do. In my opinion, I believe he had
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Speaker 6: her convinced that it would be the only way that
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Speaker 6: she could escape him to some degree. I believe that
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Speaker 6: he used every tactic and tool that he could.
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Speaker 1: The pastor has denied ever hurting his wife in any way.
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Speaker 1: Claims that he had groomed her since the age of
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Speaker 1: ten must be false, he says, because they did not
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Speaker 1: meet until she was fourteen. The police report where this
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Speaker 1: accusation made by Micah is recorded, probably transcribed her statements inaccurately.
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Speaker 1: Micah likely would have stated that the grooming began in
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Speaker 1: twenty ten, not when she was ten years old. Micah
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Speaker 1: was made it before a second independent autopsy could be performed.
38:05
Speaker 1: It seems that there are also gaps in the standard
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Speaker 1: practices in North Carolina that Micah's family believe rendered the
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Speaker 1: autopsy incomplete. They did not perform a toxicology, for example.
38:17
Speaker 1: Adding more fuel to the fire, John Paul pushed for
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Speaker 1: a cremation immediately. Family reported that he refused access to
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Speaker 1: view Micah until after they agreed to this. The family
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Speaker 1: are not giving up.
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Speaker 21: I believe that it was all staged.
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Speaker 1: I believe that the whole thing was premeditated. I believe
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Speaker 1: that the narrative.
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Speaker 21: Was established by Junior all the way through before there
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Speaker 21: was a release, Like the day we were notified, he
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Speaker 21: was already saying she did it, she did it. Why
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Speaker 21: would you do that if you don't have all the
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Speaker 21: information yet, why would you not be grieving? And just
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Speaker 21: you know, he has not shown any remorse, no grief.
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Speaker 21: He shows nervousness, he shows guilt, he shows you know
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Speaker 21: that he is hiding something.
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Speaker 12: Hey, everybody, I just wanted to share the course of
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Speaker 12: a song that came to my head the other day.
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Speaker 19: I was just kind of battling thoughts of just kind
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Speaker 19: of like human thoughts, you know, things that you want
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Speaker 19: to do, and it's just a fleeting thought, you know,
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Speaker 19: and then this song came to my mind because it says,
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Speaker 19: you know, bless those who cursed you, pray for your enemies,
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Speaker 19: things like that.
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Speaker 1: Revelations from John Paul Miller's past continue to accumulate, and
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Speaker 1: the outcry for action to be taken is only growing.
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Speaker 11: I pray for you.
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Speaker 1: He It has been reported that the FBI's assistance has
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Speaker 1: been requested by law enforcement in North Carolina, but with
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Speaker 1: the death investigation now declared closed, it is unclear what
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Speaker 1: aspects of the case the FBI agents have been asked
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Speaker 1: to look into.
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Speaker 11: A preme miracle.
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Speaker 12: So very your High.
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Speaker 19: In Jesus' name, in Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Name, that was the tragic case of Mike and Miller.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching, and a special thanks
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Speaker 1: again to everyone in the members lounge. I'm Kevin. This
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Speaker 1: is just thought lounge, and I'll see in the next one.
40:37
Speaker 1: I found out the watch when the scene.
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Speaker 20: Please tell me who the screen saves.
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Speaker 7: I can hear the Christ repeat.
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Speaker 3: You gotta take my time because these crimes get deep,
40:45
Speaker 3: but these stories can't hide.
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Speaker 20: Let me find my seat.
40:47
Speaker 1: Can you go ahead and settle in?
40:49
Speaker 3: Y'tt to be selective, doing all the research, keeping it objective,
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Speaker 3: always being effective. He say he got a neck,