Latest / Legally Brunette / Legally Brunette Presents: ‘Til Death Do Us Part - Mica & JP Miller
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi guys, welcome to an episode of Till Death Do
- 0:03Speaker 1: Us Part. I'll be your host today, Emily Simpson with.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Shane.
- 0:07Speaker 1: All right, today we are going to talk about, this
- 0:10Speaker 1: was a new documentary that came out on Netflix. It's
- 0:13Speaker 1: called The Pastor's Wife. And so many of you sending
- 0:16Speaker 1: me DMs saying, you and Shane have to talk about this.
- 0:19Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about it. Micah Miller was young, faithful,
- 0:23Speaker 1: and married to J.P. Miller, who was a charismatic pastor
- 0:27Speaker 1: at the center of their South Carolina congregation. To the
- 0:30Speaker 1: outside world, they were a portrait of devotion, but Micah
- 0:34Speaker 1: had begun to tell a very different story. In the
- 0:37Speaker 1: months before her disappearance, she filed for divorce, alleging manipulation,
- 0:42Speaker 1: coercive control, and a systematic dismantling of her sense of self.
- 0:46Speaker 1: She made recordings. She reached out to people. She was preparing.
- 0:50Speaker 2: For what?
- 0:51Speaker 1: No one could be sure. What followed raised questions that
- 0:54Speaker 1: wouldn't stay quiet about their marriage, about the man she
- 0:56Speaker 1: left behind, and about whether the full truth would ever
- 0:59Speaker 1: come to light. Micah's relationship with J.P. Miller is documented
- 1:03Speaker 1: in the Netflix docuseries Death of the Pastor's Wife, which
- 1:06Speaker 1: premiered on August 26 of 2026. All right, let's go
- 1:11Speaker 1: through a little bit of a timeline about Micah and J.P.,
- 1:17Speaker 1: First of all, I don't think I've ever hated someone
- 1:20Speaker 1: so much. I mean, I've hated a lot of people
- 1:22Speaker 1: that we've talked about.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Oh, there's a long list of people. There's a long list.
- 1:25Speaker 2: You're saying he surpassed all those people and he's at
- 1:28Speaker 2: the top now?
- 1:29Speaker 1: I mean, he's close to the top.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:33Speaker 1: He's a piece of work. And why people continue to
- 1:38Speaker 1: follow him is beyond me. Other than it just reminds
- 1:42Speaker 1: me of the crazy– People like the women that would follow,
- 1:46Speaker 1: you know, like the good looking guy that committed two
- 1:50Speaker 1: murders in a.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Day, Wade Wilson.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Like just that blind following makes no sense to me,
- 1:56Speaker 1: but we're going to talk about it.
- 1:58Speaker 2: All right.
- 1:58Speaker 1: John Paul J.P. Miller was the charismatic founder and senior
- 2:02Speaker 1: pastor of Solid Rock Church. Also, by the way, there
- 2:05Speaker 1: is a church in Ohio called Solid Rock. Anyway, I
- 2:10Speaker 1: just thought I would throw that out there.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Okay.
- 2:13Speaker 1: This is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has a
- 2:16Speaker 1: magnetic and persuasive personality, and he built a devoted congregation
- 2:21Speaker 1: and cultivated an image as a man of God, a
- 2:24Speaker 1: spiritual authority figure at the center of his community. Micah
- 2:29Speaker 1: grew up in Wichita, Kansas. She was one of seven
- 2:32Speaker 1: siblings in a deeply religious household. When her family relocated
- 2:36Speaker 1: to Myrtle Beach, she was.
- 2:37Speaker 2: A 13 year old.
- 2:39Speaker 1: And she began attending Solid Rock Church, where she discovered
- 2:43Speaker 1: her love of music and worship. By all accounts, she
- 2:46Speaker 1: was full of faith and fiercely devoted to her calling.
- 2:50Speaker 1: So when she's 13, she knows J.P. Miller at the time.
- 2:53Speaker 1: He's a pastor, right?
- 2:55Speaker 2: Right. He's a full-on adult. Yeah.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Because he's like 15 years older than her, right? Yeah.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Something like that. Yeah. It doesn't say late 20s. She's 13.
- 3:05Speaker 2: That's a baby. She's 13.
- 3:06Speaker 1: That's a child. Um, so first of all, at 18,
- 3:11Speaker 1: Micah gets married to a fellow church member named Jeremy
- 3:14Speaker 1: back in 2012 with JP Miller himself officiating the wedding.
- 3:20Speaker 1: She went on to work as JP's personal assistant at
- 3:24Speaker 1: the church. That's where, you know, she's 18. I guess
- 3:29Speaker 1: she's not 13 at this point. She's 18, but I
- 3:32Speaker 1: don't know.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Why do you have issue?
- 3:34Speaker 1: I just have an issue with her being a personal assistant.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:39Speaker 1: To him.
- 3:40Speaker 2: Well, knowing who he is.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:43Speaker 2: But his personal assistant shouldn't be, you're right, shouldn't be
- 3:46Speaker 2: someone 18, a female. Yeah.
- 3:50Speaker 1: I'm just saying that just seems inappropriate just from the
- 3:53Speaker 1: get-go without there even being some illicit affair. I'm just
- 3:56Speaker 1: saying if you're a man of God and a church
- 3:59Speaker 1: and you need a personal assistant, I don't know if
- 4:02Speaker 1: it should be an 18-year-old girl.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Well, he doesn't need a personal assistant.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Well, he's a very busy man. He has sermons to
- 4:08Speaker 1: write about sex every day. So he needs a personal
- 4:11Speaker 1: assistant to do all the other stuff.
- 4:13Speaker 2: He's married by the way, right? He's married at this time.
- 4:15Speaker 1: He's married.
- 4:16Speaker 2: With children.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Yes.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Okay.
- 4:18Speaker 1: I believe he was, he's married to, I forget her name,
- 4:21Speaker 1: but she's part of the church. But then I believe
- 4:23Speaker 1: he was married before that as well.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Okay. But we do know he was married at this time.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Yes.
- 4:29Speaker 2: When Micah joins the church.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Well, she joined at 13 and now she's his personal
- 4:35Speaker 1: assistant at 18. Over the next few years, JP began
- 4:38Speaker 1: sending Micah compliments about her appearance. What started as flattery
- 4:43Speaker 1: gradually escalated. After three years of marriage to Jeremy, Micah
- 4:48Speaker 1: and JP began a physical affair and JP was also
- 4:51Speaker 1: still married with five children at that time. When the
- 4:55Speaker 1: affair came to light, it devastated both marriages and sent
- 4:58Speaker 1: shockwaves through the congregation, which But the church eventually forgave
- 5:02Speaker 1: it and JP and his wife divorced. Micah and Jeremy divorced.
- 5:07Speaker 1: And then JP and Micah became a couple. They turned
- 5:10Speaker 1: their affair into a love story that the congregation came
- 5:13Speaker 1: to admire. I want to know what her first husband, Jeremy, thinks.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I was waiting for his interview in the Netflix documentary.
- 5:21Speaker 2: He never showed up. That guy got out. Yeah, he
- 5:24Speaker 2: was smart. I mean, I'm sure he was heartbroken. Well,
- 5:25Speaker 2: I don't think it was by choice, right? Because she
- 5:27Speaker 2: left him.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Well, she left him.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Yeah. But I meant. He's lucky to have not been
- 5:31Speaker 2: a part of anything that's ahead of us in episode
- 5:34Speaker 2: two and episode three of this series. Right. Right. And
- 5:38Speaker 2: I'm sure he's saddened to hear her story.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Right. In December of 2017, Micah suffered a severe negative
- 5:45Speaker 1: reaction to sedatives during a breast augmentation surgery. First of all,
- 5:50Speaker 1: let's talk about this breast augmentation because they didn't give
- 5:52Speaker 1: you a lot of details on it. But my takeaway
- 5:54Speaker 1: was that JP was encouraging her.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Well, they said that some of the family members said that. Right.
- 6:01Speaker 1: But that's my belief, too, that he was encouraging.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Her soon after marriage to get.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Breast implants to so she could, you know. look a
- 6:11Speaker 1: certain way for him. But I don't think that was
- 6:13Speaker 1: probably something that she had ever wanted or thought about.
- 6:17Speaker 1: It was I'm sure it was 100% him saying you
- 6:20Speaker 1: need to do this. Okay, so after her breast augmentation surgery,
- 6:26Speaker 1: she I don't know if she claimed this or if
- 6:28Speaker 1: he claimed this or if this was actually true, but
- 6:30Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never heard of someone having a
- 6:32Speaker 1: negative like psychosis type of effect from anesthesia. I think
- 6:37Speaker 1: maybe it was a combination of the way he was
- 6:39Speaker 1: treating her. I'm sure he was very controlling at this time.
- 6:43Speaker 1: I'm sure he was probably already cheating on her. So
- 6:47Speaker 1: I think maybe a combination of the surgery, the anesthesia, as.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Well as covering as him.
- 6:55Speaker 1: And his treatment of her is probably why she was
- 6:57Speaker 1: having any type of mental issues.
- 7:00Speaker 2: After seeing and reading this whole story, he is clearly
- 7:03Speaker 2: the biggest factor in, in her.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Mental decline right she was hospitalized and diagnosed with bipolar
- 7:10Speaker 1: disorder during her recovery you know that's another question i
- 7:13Speaker 1: have was she diagnosed with bipolar disorder is there actual
- 7:17Speaker 1: documentation of her seeing a psychiatrist and being not that
- 7:21Speaker 1: i can actually diagnosed or are we talking about.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Like again general terms or are.
- 7:26Speaker 1: We talking about jp said she was diagnosed Because when
- 7:30Speaker 1: you go through this whole documentary, anything that comes up
- 7:34Speaker 1: about her mental state or her mental needs is all
- 7:38Speaker 1: through him and his text messages to other people. She
- 7:41Speaker 1: needs this medication. She's not taking this. She's going through
- 7:44Speaker 1: a mental, you know, psychosis type of situation. She has bipolar.
- 7:49Speaker 1: It's all coming from him. I do know that she
- 7:52Speaker 1: went to the, you know, the biblical therapist, some type
- 7:55Speaker 1: of religious therapist, right? That she became friends with.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
- 7:59Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that some type of therapy.
- 8:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:02Speaker 1: But to me, again... It was.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Probably more spiritual therapy. It was probably more informal, at
- 8:06Speaker 2: least in the mental... health world.
- 8:10Speaker 1: Right. I'm saying I don't think it was because she
- 8:12Speaker 1: was suffering from bipolar and she was recognizing that she
- 8:16Speaker 1: was suffering from bipolar. I think it was because she
- 8:18Speaker 1: was suffering in her marriage. And so she went to
- 8:21Speaker 1: the spiritual leader to try to get some type of guidance.
- 8:25Speaker 1: So again, I don't know if she was actually diagnosed
- 8:30Speaker 1: by a psychiatrist.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Based on publicly reported medical documents, Mikey Miller was reportedly
- 8:35Speaker 2: formally diagnosed with mental health disorders. Bipolar disorder, dependent personality disorder,
- 8:43Speaker 2: manic episodes, suicidal thoughts and attempts, schizophrenia. So there is
- 8:49Speaker 2: definitely some at least medical professionals that evaluated her at
- 8:55Speaker 2: some time and had some reporting of this.
- 8:58Speaker 1: I would say it was probably after she spent long
- 9:02Speaker 1: periods of time with a husband.
- 9:04Speaker 2: It was after she left her high school sweetheart and
- 9:06Speaker 2: married her pastor.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Right.
- 9:09Speaker 2: That slowly declined. Rapidly declined.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Just six days after being discharged from the psychiatric hospital,
- 9:16Speaker 1: JP married her. Her family and friends later said they
- 9:19Speaker 1: believed he chose that moment deliberately, marrying her when she
- 9:22Speaker 1: was at her most vulnerable. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree
- 9:25Speaker 1: with that.
- 9:25Speaker 2: They should let her recover, for sure. Yeah.
- 9:27Speaker 1: Well, I think because he's such a psychotic narcissist, whatever
- 9:31Speaker 1: you want to call it, I mean, that was a
- 9:34Speaker 1: time for her. That was the best time for him
- 9:36Speaker 1: to marry her because I know her family was against it.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Well, he could save her, too. I'm sure he feels
- 9:40Speaker 2: manly by saving her.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Oh, he looks like the hero.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he could tell her what to do,
- 9:45Speaker 2: and I'm looking out for you, and you know, so.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Once they married, troubling patterns emerged. So Micah had JP's
- 9:51Speaker 1: signature tattooed on her body, which family saw as a
- 9:55Speaker 1: sign of how thoroughly she had been marked as his.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Wait, whose signature? His signature? yeah you didn't see that
- 10:01Speaker 2: part yeah yeah.
- 10:02Speaker 1: She had his signature tattooed i believe on the side
- 10:04Speaker 1: of her like this I assumed when I saw that
- 10:08Speaker 1: part again, my takeaway was that was his idea. And
- 10:12Speaker 1: he sent her to have it done and probably wrote
- 10:16Speaker 1: his signature.
- 10:17Speaker 2: He branded her.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Branded her, right.
- 10:18Speaker 2: I wonder if his former wives have the same branding.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Have brandings on them.
- 10:22Speaker 2: And his future wives. Spoiler alert.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Rumors of JP's continued infidelity circulated constantly. JP allegedly administered
- 10:31Speaker 1: testosterone to Micah to keep up with his sex drive.
- 10:34Speaker 1: And Micah told friends that they regularly had sex four
- 10:38Speaker 1: times a day. The way they presented it in the
- 10:41Speaker 1: documentary was that she was taking testosterone to be able
- 10:44Speaker 1: to keep up with his sex drive.
- 10:46Speaker 2: At his direction.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Because he... wanted sex at least four times a day.
- 10:51Speaker 1: I can't tell you how uncomfortable it was for me
- 10:53Speaker 1: to watch this documentary and watch his sermons.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 10:56Speaker 1: I mean, I do understand that for purposes of this documentary...
- 10:59Speaker 1: They show a lot of his sermons, a lot of
- 11:01Speaker 1: clips of his sermons. They show a lot of clips
- 11:02Speaker 1: of his actual sermons. And obviously, they took a cross
- 11:05Speaker 1: section of the ones where he's... He's.
- 11:07Speaker 2: Always referencing the female should basically... submit herself to her
- 11:12Speaker 2: husband at all times.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Right. And if she doesn't, then he's always out looking
- 11:17Speaker 1: at other places.
- 11:17Speaker 2: It's your fault if he cheats. Right. It's pretty much
- 11:19Speaker 2: what he was saying.
- 11:20Speaker 1: It was what he was saying repeatedly.
- 11:22Speaker 2: Right.
- 11:22Speaker 1: In many different ways.
- 11:23Speaker 2: This guy's a sicko.
- 11:24Speaker 1: But this is what I didn't understand. I didn't understand
- 11:27Speaker 1: how you could sit in a church environment at a
- 11:30Speaker 1: pew with this douchebag and tight pants and a button down.
- 11:35Speaker 2: What would it be like to hang out with that congregation?
- 11:38Speaker 2: What do they do on the weekends?
- 11:39Speaker 1: Like, Why is everyone just sitting there like it's perfectly
- 11:43Speaker 1: normal that he's talking about all these things that are sexual, which.
- 11:48Speaker 2: First of all, I think is inappropriate. Well, they were
- 11:49Speaker 2: always one-sided too. It was always about the female. It
- 11:52Speaker 2: was never like giving advice on how spouses should treat
- 11:55Speaker 2: each other. It was always about how the female should
- 11:58Speaker 2: be treating the husband. Right.
- 12:00Speaker 1: And then about how if she's not treating him to
- 12:03Speaker 1: all his sexual needs and desires, then he's out wandering around,
- 12:06Speaker 1: looking around, getting it in other places.
- 12:09Speaker 2: And that's her fault. I mean, this is literally... What
- 12:12Speaker 2: are you saying? Like, ask me how I know what
- 12:14Speaker 2: he was saying.
- 12:15Speaker 1: I just I had like secondhand embarrassment watching it. I
- 12:19Speaker 1: just thought, how are these people sitting in a church
- 12:21Speaker 1: setting in a congregation listening to this doucher?
- 12:24Speaker 2: And everybody's just okay with it. And everybody's like, following him.
- 12:28Speaker 1: And he's a leader. And they're they put him up
- 12:30Speaker 1: on a pedestal. JP constantly preached that wives are obligated
- 12:34Speaker 1: to meet their husband's sexual needs and allegedly demanded sex daily. Quote,
- 12:39Speaker 1: if you don't meet your husband's sexual needs, he says
- 12:41Speaker 1: in one sermon, Satan will put 20 different options before
- 12:45Speaker 1: his eyes before the day's over with. You know what
- 12:48Speaker 1: I was thinking?
- 12:48Speaker 2: Yeah. then don't look you doucher i know those options
- 12:53Speaker 2: are still there those options.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Are always there like you're there's always other women there's
- 12:58Speaker 1: always temptation the point is is that.
- 13:01Speaker 2: I mean he's he's proof of living proof of that
- 13:06Speaker 2: he gets sex from his wife four times a day
- 13:08Speaker 2: apparently and he still cheated on her right so did
- 13:12Speaker 2: he only have 10 options i mean what what happened to.
- 13:16Speaker 1: That So Micah's friend, Charlotte Korn, spoke in the documentary
- 13:20Speaker 1: about strict rules around something as basic as a phone call.
- 13:24Speaker 1: Micah told me multiple times, don't call me before 11
- 13:27Speaker 1: unless I call you first. John Paul does not like
- 13:29Speaker 1: it if I get out of bed before him.
- 13:31Speaker 2: That's what I was like, 11 o'clock? Like he's not
- 13:33Speaker 2: up until 11 o'clock? Like as a safety measure, just
- 13:37Speaker 2: make it nothing before 11 because sometimes he sleeps in?
- 13:39Speaker 1: I guess.
- 13:41Speaker 2: So what time does he go to bed?
- 13:45Speaker 1: I don't know. Who sleeps until 11?
- 13:47Speaker 2: Who sleeps with him?
- 13:48Speaker 1: Well, lots of people sleep with him. When Micah sought
- 13:52Speaker 1: refuge at her sister's house, JP allegedly sent texts threatening
- 13:55Speaker 1: to raise hell and stating, I'm armed, I'm ready. JP
- 13:59Speaker 1: denied all of these allegations, even though she showed text messages.
- 14:02Speaker 1: I mean, there's text messages of him saying that she
- 14:04Speaker 1: called the police.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Well, he was on group text messages too, as we'll
- 14:08Speaker 2: learn that he said horrible things.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Yeah. But that, yeah, but I'm talking about that instance
- 14:13Speaker 1: where she's at her sister's house and he wanted her
- 14:15Speaker 1: to come home. And he's texting and he's threatening her
- 14:18Speaker 1: and he's saying he's down the lane and he's at
- 14:20Speaker 1: the end of the road and that he has a
- 14:21Speaker 1: gun and he's armed and ready and they call the
- 14:23Speaker 1: police on him. I'm just saying he put all of
- 14:25Speaker 1: that into text messages, even though he denies doing it.
- 14:29Speaker 1: He has a bad habit of putting everything into text
- 14:32Speaker 1: messages and then saying that he didn't do any of it.
- 14:44Speaker 1: So in October of 2023, Micah Miller illegally filed for
- 14:47Speaker 1: separation from JP for the first time. Then in February
- 14:51Speaker 1: of 2024, the case was dismissed after the couple tried
- 14:55Speaker 1: to reconcile. Federal prosecutors later alleged that from November of
- 15:00Speaker 1: 2022 through April of 2024, JP engaged in a sustained
- 15:05Speaker 1: pattern of cyber stalking and intimidation. Um, this includes just
- 15:09Speaker 1: some of the things that he did to her posting
- 15:12Speaker 1: nude photos of Micah online without her consent. I guess
- 15:15Speaker 1: he would take photos of her while they were having.
- 15:17Speaker 2: Sex and then.
- 15:20Speaker 1: He would use them and threatened. Here's the thing though.
- 15:23Speaker 1: If he's posting them, doesn't he look like.
- 15:25Speaker 2: He posted on her Facebook account?
- 15:27Speaker 1: Oh, he would log into her own Facebook and then
- 15:29Speaker 1: post it. Like she's posting nudes and of herself.
- 15:32Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And then he would tell her that no
- 15:36Speaker 2: church will ever want you.
- 15:37Speaker 1: That's diabolical.
- 15:38Speaker 2: Like, I'm going to destroy kind of your identity of,
- 15:41Speaker 2: you know, that she loves to attend a church and
- 15:42Speaker 2: kind of be a part of that group.
- 15:43Speaker 1: That she's this good, wholesome girl.
- 15:44Speaker 2: And he was going to try to take that away
- 15:45Speaker 2: from her.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Also placing GPS tracking devices on her vehicle. You know,
- 15:51Speaker 1: her brother found a tracking device. Did you see that part?
- 15:53Speaker 1: And he pulled it off. And then I think he
- 15:55Speaker 1: just replaced it again with another tracking device after that one, like,
- 15:59Speaker 1: got removed.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Yeah, he did.
- 16:01Speaker 1: And then they had the video of him. Remember they
- 16:03Speaker 1: pulled into the police station to like show the police
- 16:06Speaker 1: that they had found a tracking device on her car.
- 16:09Speaker 1: And as they're sitting at the police station, he drives
- 16:12Speaker 1: in and then circles and leaves.
- 16:14Speaker 2: And they took a video of that too. Yeah.
- 16:16Speaker 1: You know, he's literally tracking her in that moment. And
- 16:20Speaker 1: then he like pulls in and he's like, Oh, this
- 16:22Speaker 1: is a police station. And he like makes a U-turn
- 16:24Speaker 1: and leaves.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Okay.
- 16:27Speaker 1: I have to tell you my favorite scene in the
- 16:29Speaker 1: whole documentary is, Is when she leaves him and then
- 16:33Speaker 1: he lays in the grass.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Did you see this part? What was up with that?
- 16:37Speaker 2: It was like, I didn't understand that. So the car,
- 16:40Speaker 2: it looked like he fell out the car door. Yeah.
- 16:43Speaker 2: And he was just laying on the grass lifeless and crying.
- 16:46Speaker 1: And crying. But like such a whiny... I don't even
- 16:51Speaker 1: know how to explain the crying. It was funny because
- 16:53Speaker 1: I was watching this documentary so that we could talk
- 16:56Speaker 1: about it today. And Annabelle walked into the room during
- 16:59Speaker 1: that scene and she sat down and she was cracking
- 17:03Speaker 1: up and she was like, what is wrong with this guy?
- 17:05Speaker 2: She was like, what is this?
- 17:07Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, this is a grown man.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Who's a pastor of a church that people look up
- 17:12Speaker 1: to that just is laying in the grass crying and
- 17:15Speaker 1: like a baby, but it was like, like.
- 17:17Speaker 2: He wouldn't move. It was like a cartoon character. One
- 17:19Speaker 2: of our kids were like, come on, we got to
- 17:21Speaker 2: go get up. It was like laying there like a
- 17:23Speaker 2: wet blanket.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Also, he allegedly contacted her. Well, not allegedly, I guess
- 17:29Speaker 1: this is, this is true because he was, um, He
- 17:32Speaker 1: was charged with cyberstalking. He contacted her over 50 times
- 17:37Speaker 1: from unknown numbers in a single day. I guess she
- 17:40Speaker 1: kept changing her phone number and he kept getting a
- 17:42Speaker 1: hold of it. I don't know how you continued to.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Get a hold. She felt that someone on the inside
- 17:46Speaker 2: was sharing a number. It was traveling around. And then
- 17:50Speaker 2: she received a phone call from his best friend, Mark.
- 17:53Speaker 2: But she received a phone call from him. I remember
- 17:56Speaker 2: because that was recorded. She recorded that call, a video
- 17:59Speaker 2: recording of her taking that call where he said, I'm
- 18:02Speaker 2: not calling on behalf of JP. I'm calling on behalf
- 18:04Speaker 2: of both of you. And she was just like, whatever.
- 18:06Speaker 1: And she pretty much hung up on him.
- 18:08Speaker 2: The call. So that was likely the, an example of
- 18:12Speaker 2: how the, her number gets around. Why? Because, because she
- 18:16Speaker 2: has to share with someone and someone was leaking it.
- 18:18Speaker 2: And then it'd get to this Mark fellow or whomever.
- 18:21Speaker 2: And then, you know, All right.
- 18:23Speaker 1: On February 8th of 2024, JP called a psychiatric hospital
- 18:26Speaker 1: and had Micah involuntarily hospitalized for 48 hours by the
- 18:30Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach police. That sounds so archaic to me.
- 18:34Speaker 2: Because of the crazy allegations he made about her and
- 18:36Speaker 2: about how like she was very dangerous. And so they,
- 18:40Speaker 2: and I don't know what their procedures are, but it
- 18:42Speaker 2: sure seemed like they just took his word for it. Yeah.
- 18:44Speaker 2: And violently grabbed her and threw her in a psych ward. Right.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Or a 72 hour hold or whatever it is. And
- 18:50Speaker 2: it's like, just based on what he said.
- 18:52Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying it sounds so like.
- 18:55Speaker 2: He must have been really convincing.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Like 1800s to me when people that were like slightly
- 19:00Speaker 1: different or.
- 19:01Speaker 2: There's probably some cops in his congregation. So he's like, hey,
- 19:04Speaker 2: let's go get her.
- 19:05Speaker 1: On February 10th of 2024, upon discharge, Micah discovered JP
- 19:09Speaker 1: had picked up her purse and car keys during her stay.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Her car was gone from the Walmart parking lot where
- 19:15Speaker 1: she had left it. Then on March 11th of 2024,
- 19:19Speaker 1: Micah took formal legal action, filing a complaint and motion
- 19:22Speaker 1: for a restraining order. To meet the filing requirements, she
- 19:26Speaker 1: needed to attach at least two police reports documenting a
- 19:29Speaker 1: pattern of harassment or stalking. and she included three. So
- 19:34Speaker 1: she had three police reports. Her first report was filed
- 19:37Speaker 1: at a restaurant called Wicked Tuna, describing a string of
- 19:41Speaker 1: texts that JP sent her while she was at a
- 19:43Speaker 1: family oyster roast. One read simply, enjoy your oysters. Another
- 19:49Speaker 1: asked how her morning at Valeros church had been a
- 19:53Speaker 1: reminder that he was watching her every move. Then on
- 19:57Speaker 1: March 5th of 2024, this is her second police report,
- 20:00Speaker 1: which she filed two days later, described a barrage of emails, texts, calls,
- 20:06Speaker 1: and letters, as well as a disturbing discovery. A razor
- 20:09Speaker 1: blade had been wedged into her passenger side tire, destroying it.
- 20:14Speaker 1: Did you see that?
- 20:15Speaker 2: Yeah. There's two razor blades.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Yeah. And then on March 11th, 2024, this is the
- 20:20Speaker 1: third police report, which was filed that same day. She
- 20:24Speaker 1: sought the restraining order. So she, so she seeks this
- 20:27Speaker 1: restraining order on March 11th and she attaches the two
- 20:30Speaker 1: police reports plus the one from that day. This one
- 20:33Speaker 1: alleged that she found three more razors in her tires
- 20:36Speaker 1: and that her car had been keyed and that a
- 20:38Speaker 1: GPS tracking device had been planted on the vehicle. She
- 20:41Speaker 1: also reported finding a letter accusing her of having an
- 20:45Speaker 1: affair with a teenager. Do you remember there was a
- 20:48Speaker 1: part also where he asked her repeatedly? He kept harassing her,
- 20:51Speaker 1: asking her.
- 20:51Speaker 2: If you were going to kiss a girl, who would
- 20:52Speaker 2: it be? Yeah. And supposedly he kept asking her and
- 20:55Speaker 2: she was kind of like not comfortable answering the question
- 20:58Speaker 2: because she doesn't have anyone. She's not interested in that. Yeah.
- 21:01Speaker 2: And then she finally gave him an answer and she
- 21:04Speaker 2: gave him an answer. I think it was the Charlotte girl. Yeah.
- 21:07Speaker 2: He thought that's the safest because it's probably because she's
- 21:09Speaker 2: a wonderful lady and probably wouldn't do anything. And then
- 21:12Speaker 2: he used it against her the whole time.
- 21:14Speaker 1: He said that she was having an affair with a friend.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
- 21:18Speaker 1: That reminds me of this where he's now alleging that
- 21:20Speaker 1: she's having some inappropriate, you know, relationship with a teenager
- 21:25Speaker 1: so he's doing everything possible to destroy not just their
- 21:28Speaker 1: marriage but her life her integrity well.
- 21:30Speaker 2: He's breaking her down to put it lightly.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Right Through the restraining order, Micah was asking the court
- 21:36Speaker 1: for three things, that JP be barred from threatening or
- 21:39Speaker 1: harassing her or her family, that he be prohibited from
- 21:42Speaker 1: coming near her home, workplace, or school, and that he
- 21:45Speaker 1: also be legally prevented from contacting her in any way
- 21:48Speaker 1: that violated South Carolina's harassment and stalking statutes. Then on
- 21:55Speaker 1: March 13th of 2024, Solid Rock Church filed a police
- 21:59Speaker 1: report claiming Micah had transferred $ 1, 199 in church donations to
- 22:04Speaker 1: her personal account. Police later determined there was insufficient evidence
- 22:08Speaker 1: to pursue the matter.
- 22:10Speaker 2: You know, this is ridiculous. So he makes a report
- 22:14Speaker 2: that she's crazy and going to hurt herself or hurt someone.
- 22:16Speaker 2: So they literally are aggressive and they go grab her
- 22:19Speaker 2: and against her will, put her in a hold. She
- 22:23Speaker 2: makes all these claims. And they're like, yeah, we're not
- 22:26Speaker 2: seeing anything here. It's just a marital kind of dispute. Right. Problem. Right.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Something's wrong there.
- 22:33Speaker 1: It sounds like a good old boy system to me
- 22:35Speaker 1: in the South.
- 22:37Speaker 2: What city are they in? Do we know?
- 22:39Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Oh.
- 22:40Speaker 1: South Carolina. Oh. It seems to me that everyone's protecting
- 22:44Speaker 1: him and working really hard to protect him and working
- 22:48Speaker 1: really hard against her.
- 22:48Speaker 2: He's probably in everyone's face nonstop. I mean, look at her.
- 22:51Speaker 2: He's calling her 50 times a day.
- 22:54Speaker 1: Can we just talk about one other thing? Susie Skinner. So,
- 22:57Speaker 1: while he's married to Micah, he's having an affair with
- 23:01Speaker 1: Susie Skinner, who is.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Who's married in... Is also married and a member of
- 23:05Speaker 2: the church.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Who is married to a man who is a... What
- 23:10Speaker 1: is it? Is it a quadriplegic? Is that where.
- 23:12Speaker 2: I don't know if he was quad or para, but
- 23:14Speaker 2: he was... In a wheelchair. He was disabled in a wheelchair. Right.
- 23:16Speaker 1: And they met... She met him because she was his
- 23:19Speaker 1: physical therapist. I guess he was this, I can't remember
- 23:22Speaker 1: his name, but he was an athlete. Mm-hmm. And he
- 23:25Speaker 1: was in good shape. He was very athletic. And I
- 23:27Speaker 1: believe he got hurt doing something athletic, right? And so,
- 23:31Speaker 1: then she was his physical therapist. Then she marries him,
- 23:34Speaker 1: and they're both members of Solid Rock Church.
- 23:36Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Then he, I think, stops going to church because he
- 23:40Speaker 1: doesn't like it or something. He's not interested or whatever.
- 23:43Speaker 2: He doesn't participate like she does.
- 23:44Speaker 1: And she goes all the time. Right. Because she's sleeping
- 23:47Speaker 1: with the pastor. Because she's sleeping with JP. So Susie
- 23:49Speaker 1: Skinner starts sleeping with JP. But Micah knows about the affair.
- 23:54Speaker 1: And it shows. It's so awkward to me. that this
- 23:58Speaker 1: man stands up and preaches about what a woman should
- 24:01Speaker 1: do for a man and how a woman should treat
- 24:03Speaker 1: a man.
- 24:03Speaker 2: And temptation this and temptation that.
- 24:05Speaker 1: And literally Susie Skinner's like right there in the congregation
- 24:09Speaker 1: and Micah's right there. And Micah knows that JP's having
- 24:13Speaker 1: an affair with this Susie Skinner woman. And she just
- 24:17Speaker 1: has to take it.
- 24:19Speaker 2: And she's still having to have sex with the pastor
- 24:21Speaker 2: nonstop daily and being treated by him the way, it's
- 24:24Speaker 2: not like he's neglected her. And he's sleeping in the
- 24:27Speaker 2: basement and he's pursuing a different life. Like he also
- 24:31Speaker 2: is controlling her and destroying her. Right.
- 24:34Speaker 1: So you're saying he's also making sure his sexual needs
- 24:36Speaker 1: are met by his wife. Well, then he's also having
- 24:40Speaker 1: an affair with Susie Skinner. And then if Micah brings
- 24:43Speaker 1: up anything about Susie or asks that he not see
- 24:45Speaker 1: her anymore, it becomes a fight and he becomes horrible
- 24:48Speaker 1: to her. Not that he's already horrible to her. And
- 24:51Speaker 1: then it becomes not worth it for her to even
- 24:53Speaker 1: bring it up because it makes her life so much worse.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Right.
- 24:56Speaker 1: And then there's Susie Skinner just in the congregation knowing
- 24:59Speaker 1: she's sleeping with the pastor's wife while she's married to her.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Disabled husband at home who's in a wheelchair. While they're worshiping.
- 25:08Speaker 1: And talking about what good people they are and how
- 25:10Speaker 1: moral and ethical they are.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Right.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Right?
- 25:13Speaker 2: Right. Then.
- 25:15Speaker 1: I want to know what happened to the husband in
- 25:17Speaker 1: the wheelchair because I know he died, but I want
- 25:20Speaker 1: more detail. He drowned in the pool.
- 25:23Speaker 2: What do we know so far?
- 25:24Speaker 1: Well, we know that.
- 25:27Speaker 1: They found him in the wheelchair in the bottom of
- 25:30Speaker 1: the community pool where they lived. I assume they lived
- 25:32Speaker 1: in an apartment or condo or something where it had
- 25:34Speaker 1: a community pool. They found him drowned in the pool
- 25:37Speaker 1: at the bottom of the pool and they rolled in
- 25:39Speaker 1: an accident. Like he accidentally rolled into the pool. Well,
- 25:43Speaker 1: his sister saying he was so depressed about the Susie
- 25:45Speaker 1: Skinner and the pastor saying, you know, relationship. I mean,
- 25:48Speaker 1: he knew about the affair that he possibly committed suicide
- 25:53Speaker 1: or did someone roll him into the pool or push
- 25:56Speaker 1: him into the pool? Is there no security footage out there?
- 25:59Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it past JP.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying I wanted like, why did, were
- 26:05Speaker 1: there no witnesses?
- 26:06Speaker 2: It was very convenient. That the husband of the female
- 26:11Speaker 2: that he was sleeping with a lot died.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Yes.
- 26:17Speaker 2: When he spoke up. Because I think he wanted to
- 26:19Speaker 2: speak up. I thought I heard that, that he was
- 26:21Speaker 2: starting to speak out.
- 26:22Speaker 1: He was not going to church, but then he decided
- 26:25Speaker 1: to go to the church because he wanted to confront
- 26:27Speaker 1: him because he knew that there was something inappropriate going on.
- 26:30Speaker 2: And he was found at the bottom of a pool.
- 26:31Speaker 1: And then the next thing you know, he's found dead
- 26:33Speaker 1: at the bottom of the pool. And who are the
- 26:34Speaker 1: first people that show up when... Susie calls to tell
- 26:39Speaker 1: people that her husband is dead. Who does she call?
- 26:42Speaker 2: JP.
- 26:43Speaker 1: She calls JP Miller, not his family, not his siblings.
- 26:48Speaker 1: She calls pastor JP. Yeah.
- 26:51Speaker 2: Her number one guy.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Well, then it shows body cam footage of the police.
- 26:54Speaker 1: You know, it shows him pull up and hug her.
- 26:57Speaker 1: And then Micah's with him. Here's JP hugging Susie Skinner,
- 27:03Speaker 1: whose husband just died in a pool. And Micah's there
- 27:07Speaker 1: consoling her as well, knowing that she's having an affair
- 27:10Speaker 1: with her husband. Like, this is just so trippy for
- 27:14Speaker 1: me that all this is going on and everybody's just
- 27:18Speaker 1: going on with their day.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Like it's normal.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Then we move on to March 26 of 2024 and
- 27:31Speaker 1: a civil bench trial was held in the matter of
- 27:33Speaker 1: Micah Miller versus John Paul Miller. The case was dismissed
- 27:37Speaker 1: without prejudice and no restraining order was issued. What emerged
- 27:42Speaker 1: instead was a post nuptial agreement.
- 27:45Speaker 2: This is where I wish I had.
- 27:47Speaker 1: More information and I don't know what happened. I don't
- 27:49Speaker 1: know how he got... I feel like the restraining order
- 27:52Speaker 1: was dropped. There was no restraining order issued. And then
- 27:55Speaker 1: he gets, I don't know if you know this, but
- 27:56Speaker 1: then he got Micah to sign a post-nuptial agreement.
- 28:00Speaker 2: Is that the, is that, was that the agreement? Like
- 28:02Speaker 2: I won't sleep with Susie anymore.
- 28:03Speaker 1: No, that was a marital contract that she wrote herself.
- 28:08Speaker 1: I'm talking about an actual legal document drafted by his attorney.
- 28:11Speaker 1: It is a post-nuptial agreement. She had no independent counsel
- 28:15Speaker 1: to review it. The document addressed the division of assets
- 28:18Speaker 1: and included what was called a no adverse contact order
- 28:22Speaker 1: or a NACO. It was an agreement that both parties
- 28:25Speaker 1: would refrain from stalking, following or engaging in any harmful
- 28:30Speaker 1: conduct towards one another and would only communicate with each
- 28:34Speaker 1: other's mutual consent. Micah told her sister she was afraid
- 28:38Speaker 1: for her life and she said, if anything happens to me,
- 28:41Speaker 1: JP did it.
- 28:43Speaker 2: That seems to be a theme.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Or these women that are found dead say, if anything
- 28:48Speaker 2: happened to me, my husband did it. Yeah.
- 28:51Speaker 1: Well, I say, if anything happened to me, and I
- 28:54Speaker 1: say somebody else did it, but I'm not going to
- 28:56Speaker 1: name who that is. It's not you.
- 28:59Speaker 2: When I say, if you find me dead, go look
- 29:01Speaker 2: at this person.
- 29:01Speaker 1: It's not you. It's someone else.
- 29:03Speaker 2: Yeah, it wouldn't be me.
- 29:05Speaker 1: It's not you.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Thanks. Thank you for acknowledging that. I do acknowledge. You
- 29:08Speaker 2: wouldn't falsely incriminate me as the murderer.
- 29:09Speaker 1: No, it's never Shane. If something happens to me, it's
- 29:12Speaker 1: not Shane. It's someone else.
- 29:13Speaker 2: It's usually you. You're the one that falls and stumbles
- 29:15Speaker 2: and I'll be like, well, she probably fell and hit
- 29:17Speaker 2: her head.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true. Anyway, again, just this post-nuptial agreement.
- 29:23Speaker 1: It was drafted by his attorney. She signed it and
- 29:26Speaker 1: she had no independent legal representation. Again, it's just a
- 29:31Speaker 1: complete disparity between the power within this relationship.
- 29:35Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 29:36Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I don't understand why this
- 29:39Speaker 1: post nuptial it divided assets so i can understand that goal.
- 29:43Speaker 2: In all this was he afraid she was gonna leave Probably.
- 29:47Speaker 1: But also, like, I don't understand.
- 29:48Speaker 2: That's why he didn't have her write out a will.
- 29:50Speaker 1: I don't understand the agreement that they both agree not
- 29:55Speaker 1: to stalk, follow, or engage in any type of harmful
- 29:58Speaker 1: conduct towards one another. Because he's the one that's stalking
- 30:01Speaker 1: and harassing. The one that darned the marriage.
- 30:03Speaker 2: That's probably him to try to make, I don't know,
- 30:05Speaker 2: maybe he's trying to create some type of. Like, look,
- 30:08Speaker 2: she's the one stalking. I have to put this in
- 30:10Speaker 2: writing so she doesn't stalk me.
- 30:11Speaker 1: So you think it was a preemptive move where he
- 30:14Speaker 1: has some evidence that he's like, well, look, why would
- 30:16Speaker 1: I have her sign this postnuptial agreement that we don't
- 30:18Speaker 1: stalk each other if you're accusing me of stalking her?
- 30:21Speaker 1: How could I stalk her if I signed this?
- 30:23Speaker 2: I don't know. But the timeline of events are, this
- 30:26Speaker 2: is crazy. This is getting chaotic. So he's married. He
- 30:29Speaker 2: meets Micah when she's 13. When they're 18, they're fooling around,
- 30:33Speaker 2: sleeping together. His wife and them separate. He marries Micah.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Then now he's sleeping with Susie, who's in their congregation,
- 30:42Speaker 2: among whomever else he's sleeping with and whatever else he's doing,
- 30:46Speaker 2: whatever else he's doing. And then she knows about it.
- 30:49Speaker 2: And then she ends up trying to leave him and
- 30:51Speaker 2: she can't even leave him without him going crazy and
- 30:54Speaker 2: stalking and being psychotic towards her.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Right.
- 30:58Speaker 2: That's where we're at right now.
- 30:59Speaker 1: There's also allegations from previous wives that he slept with prostitutes,
- 31:05Speaker 1: which I'm sure. Oh, yeah.
- 31:06Speaker 2: I'm sure he also shortchanged them. Yeah.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Or he probably wrote him a check from Solid Rock
- 31:10Speaker 1: Church to pay for it.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Are we going to get to the parts where they
- 31:13Speaker 2: drove around and find homeless people?
- 31:15Speaker 1: Let's talk about that.
- 31:16Speaker 2: He would, on at least four occasions, he would find someone,
- 31:21Speaker 2: I don't know if they're truly homeless, but people on
- 31:23Speaker 2: the streets.
- 31:23Speaker 1: Yeah, that wanted money, right?
- 31:24Speaker 2: And he would pay them to basically have sexual acts
- 31:29Speaker 2: with his wife. Right. Yeah. And he would watch. Right.
- 31:34Speaker 2: He's a sicko.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Well, he's a sexual deviant. There's no doubt. I don't
- 31:36Speaker 1: know if there's a, is there another word besides sexual deviant?
- 31:40Speaker 1: I mean, when someone's just like, that's all, it's all consuming.
- 31:43Speaker 2: He's hell bound.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Hell bound?
- 31:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Hell bound. All right. Um, so April 27th of 2024,
- 31:50Speaker 1: this is Micah's last day, um, around 10, 13 AM. Well,
- 31:54Speaker 1: first of all, let's talk about where Micah's living. So
- 31:57Speaker 1: she moved out and she now lives with a member
- 31:59Speaker 1: of the church.
- 31:59Speaker 2: She pretty much ran away.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:01Speaker 2: And she has, she ran away. Her sisters and brother
- 32:04Speaker 2: was very supportive of her, very protective of her. And
- 32:07Speaker 2: it was an old, much older lady.
- 32:10Speaker 1: That was in the church.
- 32:11Speaker 2: That she stayed there with. And she was still worried
- 32:13Speaker 2: about her safety as well. And she had her install
- 32:17Speaker 2: a ring camera while they were there to document things
- 32:20Speaker 2: because she was fearful. Yeah.
- 32:21Speaker 1: So this is a woman that's a member of the congregation.
- 32:25Speaker 1: And she's an older lady. She lives in an apartment.
- 32:27Speaker 1: And so Micah is living with her at this time.
- 32:30Speaker 1: So around 10, 13 a.m., Micah was seen leaving the
- 32:32Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach apartment she was residing in on a ring camera.
- 32:36Speaker 1: She returned home briefly, left again. And we also know that,
- 32:40Speaker 1: and this is She also, so I'm trying to consolidate
- 32:43Speaker 1: all this in my mind because she puts her work
- 32:45Speaker 1: shirt on. She now has a, you know, she's now
- 32:48Speaker 1: a waitress at a restaurant. She got like a new job.
- 32:50Speaker 2: She's trying to start over. You know, and that kind
- 32:52Speaker 2: of broke my heart. Like all this that she's being
- 32:55Speaker 2: put through, then she even giving, getting away is hell
- 32:59Speaker 2: for her to try to have to survive and stay
- 33:01Speaker 2: away from him and survive. And now she has to
- 33:04Speaker 2: go get a day job, which I mean, another one again,
- 33:06Speaker 2: day job, but she has to go get a day job.
- 33:09Speaker 2: while handling all of this, she has to check out
- 33:13Speaker 2: and go to a restaurant and serve people. And then
- 33:16Speaker 2: probably people complain. I mean, she has to, that's a
- 33:19Speaker 2: lot of weight on her shoulders. Right.
- 33:22Speaker 1: So I do, I did notice on the ring camera
- 33:24Speaker 1: that she does have her, like the name of the restaurant.
- 33:27Speaker 1: So she, so here's the thing. She does intend right
- 33:30Speaker 1: at that point to go to work at some point.
- 33:33Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just bringing this facts up because
- 33:35Speaker 1: we know what's going to happen.
- 33:37Speaker 2: She got off work. Did she get off work and
- 33:38Speaker 2: she was wearing it?
- 33:40Speaker 1: No, I think it was in the morning and she
- 33:42Speaker 1: was going to work later. So she has her work
- 33:44Speaker 1: shirt on. Then around 12, 12 PM, she enters Dick's
- 33:48Speaker 1: pawn shop in Myrtle beach and purchases a handgun and ammunition.
- 33:52Speaker 2: This video camera of that show.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Then around 1234, she leaves the pawn shop. Then around
- 33:58Speaker 1: one 27, she stops at a gas station in Mullen,
- 34:01Speaker 1: South Carolina and purchases a drink and fuel. Then at
- 34:05Speaker 1: 2.54 p.m., so she drives pretty far and she goes
- 34:09Speaker 1: to Lumber River State Park. It's in North Carolina. It's
- 34:14Speaker 1: more than two hours away from Myrtle Beach. She calls
- 34:17Speaker 1: 911 and she asks if her phone can be located.
- 34:21Speaker 1: She says that she wants to know if her phone
- 34:24Speaker 1: can be located because she's going to commit suicide and
- 34:27Speaker 1: she wants her family to be able to know where
- 34:30Speaker 1: her location is. And then she hangs up. The dispatchers
- 34:34Speaker 1: tried calling back and there was no answer.
- 34:36Speaker 2: You know, I noticed the dispatcher tried to keep her online. Yeah.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Because she said, hold on. I want to find your
- 34:42Speaker 2: exact location. Just wait, like meaning, okay, I'll do what
- 34:46Speaker 2: you say. Hang in there. And like as if she
- 34:49Speaker 2: was fulfilling the request and making sure specifically she had
- 34:51Speaker 2: the coordinates. I saw that as a delay tech trying
- 34:54Speaker 2: to keep her online, which I appreciated.
- 34:55Speaker 1: I'm sure it was. Around 3.50 p.m., a fisherman near
- 34:58Speaker 1: the river reported he heard crying, followed by a gunshot.
- 35:04Speaker 1: at 4 23 PM, a kayaker called nine one one
- 35:07Speaker 1: after discovering a body in the water. And around seven
- 35:10Speaker 1: 11 PM, a firearm was recovered from the water. The
- 35:13Speaker 1: serial number matched the gun box found in Micah's vehicle.
- 35:17Speaker 1: Micah Miller was only 30 years old and authorities confirmed
- 35:20Speaker 1: that JP Miller was in Charleston, South Carolina that day
- 35:23Speaker 1: at a sporting event with another.
- 35:25Speaker 2: Woman living his best life.
- 35:27Speaker 1: He was with Susie Skinner and was not present in
- 35:30Speaker 1: North Carolina at this time. Um, Here's the thing. I
- 35:35Speaker 1: know there were two shell casings found. We talked about
- 35:37Speaker 1: this before. The fisherman only heard one shot, but maybe
- 35:41Speaker 1: he didn't hear another one.
- 35:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:43Speaker 1: A lot of people maybe think that there was foul play.
- 35:45Speaker 1: I know the family insinuated that possibly there was foul play.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Well, hold on. So she was found 100 feet away
- 35:52Speaker 2: in a slow moving kind of river. It's almost still water.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Still water.
- 35:57Speaker 2: That's how they portrayed it. Yeah. And there was two
- 35:59Speaker 2: casings found 100 feet away. Spend casings.
- 36:03Speaker 1: And then one live round.
- 36:04Speaker 2: And one live round. Okay. And then I know that
- 36:07Speaker 2: ballistics matched the bullet that was used to kill herself with.
- 36:12Speaker 1: The gun that she bought at the pawn shop.
- 36:14Speaker 2: Correct. Right.
- 36:16Speaker 1: So here's the thing. It does not make sense why
- 36:20Speaker 1: she drove that far. Why did she put her work
- 36:22Speaker 1: shirt on? Maybe she decided just instantly that she was
- 36:26Speaker 1: going to do that.
- 36:27Speaker 2: I think that question comes up a lot. People say, Oh,
- 36:30Speaker 2: actually we talked about that a lot. Well, if they're
- 36:31Speaker 2: going to commit suicide, why did they make dinner plans
- 36:33Speaker 2: like this? Well, there is to some degree, it's a
- 36:36Speaker 2: last minute decision and they are in a routine. I mean,
- 36:39Speaker 2: she gets up, she gets dressed cause she's going to work. Yeah.
- 36:42Speaker 2: And then she probably has suicidal thoughts on and off
- 36:45Speaker 2: throughout the day. So, you know, it, at some point she's,
- 36:51Speaker 2: she wanted to get a drink. She wanted to probably
- 36:53Speaker 2: drive far away. She probably made, she wanted to go
- 36:55Speaker 2: to a beautiful place, a place that was quiet place
- 36:57Speaker 2: where she could sit by herself. Maybe she felt spiritually
- 37:00Speaker 2: she could connect with something. And she went all the
- 37:03Speaker 2: way out there and she wanted her family to find her.
- 37:04Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess maybe she fired a test shot first.
- 37:10Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so.
- 37:11Speaker 1: To see if the gun worked.
- 37:12Speaker 2: She wasn't like a gun owner, right?
- 37:14Speaker 1: I don't believe so. So I would assume the two
- 37:17Speaker 1: shell casings were a test shot and then the second
- 37:21Speaker 1: one to her head.
- 37:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:22Speaker 1: I know people were there was speculation as to why
- 37:25Speaker 1: her body was 100 feet out because the water wasn't moving.
- 37:28Speaker 1: I assume it's even if the water still the body still.
- 37:33Speaker 2: Well, let's say that's the case. Let's say it's proven
- 37:37Speaker 2: that the body died where it was found. What is that?
- 37:42Speaker 2: How does that change much? I guess because the casings
- 37:46Speaker 2: are a hundred feet away. Yeah.
- 37:47Speaker 1: But if the casings are on the bank and they're
- 37:49Speaker 1: a hundred feet away, she would have fallen into the
- 37:51Speaker 1: water right there. And then the point is how did
- 37:53Speaker 1: her body get a hundred feet away?
- 37:56Speaker 2: There was no signs of anyone around.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Yeah. There's no sign of struggle. There's no other tire tracks.
- 38:01Speaker 1: There's no other footprints.
- 38:02Speaker 2: She's at the pawn shop on video. She's at the
- 38:04Speaker 2: gas station on video. She drove, she called. It sounded
- 38:08Speaker 2: like she was truly going to carry out what she said. Yeah.
- 38:12Speaker 1: You know, there's always the alternative that maybe she was
- 38:16Speaker 1: coerced some way into making that 911 call. But we
- 38:18Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday. In order for there to be
- 38:21Speaker 1: foul play, meaning that she didn't actually commit suicide, that
- 38:25Speaker 1: there was some type of murder situation, this would have
- 38:28Speaker 1: had to have been the most criminally savvy person.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this guy texts all the time and shows
- 38:34Speaker 2: up all the time and tracking devices. This guy's all
- 38:37Speaker 2: over the place.
- 38:38Speaker 1: Right, I'm just saying this person would have to have
- 38:41Speaker 1: known that she was going to go buy a gun
- 38:44Speaker 1: at a pawn shop.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Right.
- 38:45Speaker 1: They would have had to have known, been able, well,
- 38:47Speaker 1: I mean, he did track her, so maybe he followed her,
- 38:49Speaker 1: but he wasn't there. He was at a game.
- 38:51Speaker 2: If he was tracking her at this point in time,
- 38:53Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure we would have learned that there was
- 38:55Speaker 2: a tracking device on that vehicle.
- 38:56Speaker 1: Right. And he was at a game miles away. I mean,
- 39:00Speaker 1: there were hundreds of people there that saw him.
- 39:02Speaker 2: He drove her to commit suicide as far as I'm concerned.
- 39:04Speaker 2: He's responsible for her death as far as I'm concerned,
- 39:07Speaker 2: but I don't think he pulled the trigger or planned it.
- 39:09Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either. I think that she did it herself.
- 39:11Speaker 2: He might have celebrated it. Him and Susie might have
- 39:13Speaker 2: had a little romantic dinner that night. Probably.
- 39:16Speaker 1: On May 2nd of 2024, JP gave a television interview
- 39:19Speaker 1: describing Micah's mental health struggles and saying she had battled
- 39:22Speaker 1: suicide before. His composure and framing struck Minnie as deeply unsettling.
- 39:27Speaker 1: This was on, have you seen, did you see that
- 39:29Speaker 1: interview that he did? I think it was with Newsmax.
- 39:31Speaker 2: I saw a clip of it.
- 39:32Speaker 1: Yeah. It was so bad. I don't even know why
- 39:34Speaker 1: he agreed to do that. I mean, it was, he's,
- 39:37Speaker 1: it reminded me again.
- 39:39Speaker 2: Of people and, and say, look at me. I have
- 39:42Speaker 2: all the answers.
- 39:43Speaker 1: Right. And it was hard to watch. I, I couldn't
- 39:47Speaker 1: even watch it. And then they asked, um, I believe
- 39:51Speaker 1: the journalist asked something to the effect of, you know,
- 39:54Speaker 1: some people say, were you involved in your, you know,
- 39:56Speaker 1: wife's death or something? And he kept going, that's a
- 39:58Speaker 1: good question. That's a great question. That's a good question.
- 40:04Speaker 1: He said it, he kept saying it over and over.
- 40:07Speaker 2: And he was almost excited about the question. Answer that
- 40:10Speaker 2: good question. That's a good question. It was so weird.
- 40:14Speaker 2: It was weird.
- 40:14Speaker 1: It was so bizarre. It's so bizarre. Micah's sister, Sierra Francis,
- 40:18Speaker 1: filed in probate court to become special administrator of Micah's estate,
- 40:23Speaker 1: citing abuse and violence in her affidavit. So obviously she
- 40:26Speaker 1: wants to be the executor of her estate, not him.
- 40:30Speaker 1: There were two separate memorial services held for her, one
- 40:34Speaker 1: at Solid Rock Church, hosted by JP, and one Celebration
- 40:38Speaker 1: of Life, hosted by Micah's family. They were held separately, obviously,
- 40:42Speaker 1: because at this point, there's so much contention between him
- 40:44Speaker 1: and her family, right? Because he sent that group text
- 40:47Speaker 1: to her family that said something like, you wouldn't let
- 40:50Speaker 1: her take her medication or something.
- 40:53Speaker 2: So, like, way to go, family. Everywhere. He was shouting
- 40:56Speaker 2: from the rooftops. That he tried for three months to
- 41:02Speaker 2: get her her medication and they refused to give it
- 41:05Speaker 2: to her and that's what drove her crazy in her
- 41:08Speaker 2: mental state and she killed herself. Right. I was like,
- 41:10Speaker 2: what are you talking about?
- 41:11Speaker 1: But I couldn't believe he had the audacity to put
- 41:14Speaker 1: her whole family on a group text and then say
- 41:17Speaker 1: something to the effect of like, you wouldn't listen to
- 41:20Speaker 1: me and you wouldn't let her take her medication and
- 41:23Speaker 1: now she's dead and it's all your fault is basically
- 41:25Speaker 1: what the group text said. Right. I was like, this
- 41:28Speaker 1: guy is.
- 41:29Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we know that.
- 41:31Speaker 1: All right. The medical examiner confirmed Micah died from a
- 41:35Speaker 1: self-inflicted gunshot wound. JP filed a petition seeking to be
- 41:39Speaker 1: named fiduciary of Micah's estate. The Robeson County Sheriff's Office
- 41:43Speaker 1: announced it had referred the case to the FBI and
- 41:45Speaker 1: the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Carolina, and the FBI
- 41:49Speaker 1: took an interest in his case. Did you see when
- 41:52Speaker 1: the FBI was searching his home? They got the search
- 41:55Speaker 1: warrant to search his home and get all his devices.
- 41:57Speaker 1: This is because they took an interest in the case
- 42:00Speaker 1: because of the stalking and the abuse and all the
- 42:02Speaker 1: things towards her. Did you see when they went in
- 42:04Speaker 1: the garage? She had a DeLorean with the license plate
- 42:06Speaker 1: that said times out or something like that. Oh, yeah.
- 42:10Speaker 1: Like the back to the future.
- 42:11Speaker 2: It was a time machine reference. Right.
- 42:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that was interesting. Out of time. It
- 42:16Speaker 1: said like out of time or something.
- 42:17Speaker 2: That's actually from the movie. Yeah. So he probably had
- 42:19Speaker 2: like a.
- 42:20Speaker 1: He had like a replica, like a DeLorean replica or
- 42:23Speaker 1: something in the garage. I just noticed that when they
- 42:25Speaker 1: were searching.
- 42:25Speaker 2: Well, I don't like that he likes one of the
- 42:26Speaker 2: movies I watched.
- 42:27Speaker 1: Yeah, now you shouldn't like it.
- 42:28Speaker 2: I know.
- 42:29Speaker 1: Because you don't want to be like him.
- 42:30Speaker 2: I'm going to cancel that.
- 42:31Speaker 1: He was doing everything possible after her death to make
- 42:35Speaker 1: sure that he could get any notes or any journals
- 42:39Speaker 1: that she had written.
- 42:39Speaker 2: Everything. He wanted everything that she had. Right.
- 42:43Speaker 1: So he reached out to the therapist, the biblical religious
- 42:47Speaker 1: therapist that she went to. He reached out to her
- 42:49Speaker 1: and he wanted all of her notes.
- 42:51Speaker 2: And the lady that housed her. Yes.
- 42:53Speaker 1: And then the woman where she was living in her apartment,
- 42:56Speaker 1: he reached out to her and said, I'm coming over
- 42:58Speaker 1: to get all her stuff and her journals and notes
- 43:01Speaker 1: and everything. And so that woman was smart. She called
- 43:04Speaker 1: the brother, Micah's brother and sister, I believe, and said, hey,
- 43:08Speaker 1: JP wants to come over and take all of her
- 43:10Speaker 1: personal belongings, her journals, everything she has written down. And
- 43:14Speaker 1: so the brother went and got it and the sister
- 43:16Speaker 1: went and they got it all first.
- 43:17Speaker 2: She said literally five minutes before. They left and bam,
- 43:20Speaker 2: he came in. Right.
- 43:21Speaker 1: But that was smart. They got into her room. They
- 43:23Speaker 1: cleaned it out. They took all her personal journals. They
- 43:26Speaker 1: even looked under the mattress. They looked behind the headboard.
- 43:30Speaker 1: They looked everywhere because they wanted to make sure that
- 43:31Speaker 1: they got everything.
- 43:32Speaker 2: And do you remember how they caught him eventually? Because
- 43:34Speaker 2: the police had to arrest him at some point. Do
- 43:36Speaker 2: you remember how they trapped him? Oh, yeah. The spiritual
- 43:41Speaker 2: coach lady, right? The spiritual coach.
- 43:42Speaker 1: They reached out to her and asked if she would
- 43:44Speaker 1: reach out to him. Because everyone else had a contentious
- 43:47Speaker 1: relationship with him. She was the only one that was
- 43:49Speaker 1: basically somewhat neutral or civil.
- 43:52Speaker 2: But she sent a great text to him.
- 43:54Speaker 1: She said she wanted to meet him.
- 43:56Speaker 2: She had come across her notes and this and that.
- 43:59Speaker 2: And that she had no business holding on to them. Right.
- 44:03Speaker 2: So she thought he would be the best caretaker for them. Right.
- 44:06Speaker 2: And that guy just jumped on it. That was like
- 44:08Speaker 2: holding up a red stake right in front of a dog.
- 44:10Speaker 2: He was like, I'm on it.
- 44:12Speaker 1: I'm there. Right, right.
- 44:13Speaker 2: And then the cops were there waiting for him.
- 44:15Speaker 1: Right. And they arrested him. Late 2024 going into 2025,
- 44:20Speaker 1: JP remarries in a beachside ceremony just one year after
- 44:24Speaker 1: Micah's death. Solid Rock Church eventually sold the property for
- 44:28Speaker 1: $ 2. 1 million and closed down.
- 44:31Speaker 2: And the wife is?
- 44:32Speaker 1: The wife is none other than Susie Skinner, whose husband
- 44:36Speaker 1: died in a pool.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Right.
- 44:39Speaker 1: That's so convenient that that worked out for them like that.
- 44:41Speaker 2: You know for a fact he's... She's not the only
- 44:44Speaker 2: one he's sleeping with right now.
- 44:45Speaker 1: No, he's currently cheating. I can guarantee.
- 44:47Speaker 2: He's on to his ex-wife.
- 44:48Speaker 1: He is currently cheating on Susie Skinner at this very
- 44:51Speaker 1: moment right now.
- 44:53Speaker 2: Probably several times today already. Right.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Probably at least four already. JP went on to lead
- 44:58Speaker 1: a new church called Mercy Church. Who still follows this man?
- 45:03Speaker 1: That's what I want to know.
- 45:04Speaker 2: As people get inside heads of others and.
- 45:08Speaker 1: I mean, people are still following this man.
- 45:11Speaker 2: You make people feel guilty, and then you make them
- 45:13Speaker 2: feel good, and then they keep following you. How do
- 45:15Speaker 2: you get Susie to marry him?
- 45:16Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I don't understand that either. I mean,
- 45:19Speaker 1: Susie Skinner, seriously, you are an embarrassment to women. JP
- 45:24Speaker 1: Miller was federally indicted in December of 2025 on charges
- 45:28Speaker 1: of cyber stalking and making false statements to investigators. He
- 45:31Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty. Micah's family, his trial date keeps getting continued.
- 45:38Speaker 1: I think I read it's been continued at least six
- 45:39Speaker 1: times now. And that is, again, what I was talking about.
- 45:43Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on in South Carolina, but
- 45:45Speaker 1: maybe it's a good old boy system. Maybe he's got
- 45:47Speaker 1: some connections with some police or some DAs or something.
- 45:52Speaker 1: And this keeps getting continued. So this man needs to pay.
- 45:57Speaker 2: Yeah, but they always do that. Everyone's always delaying, continuing.
- 46:01Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just saying, yeah, no surprise.
- 46:04Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's been six times.
- 46:06Speaker 2: Myrtle Beach, isn't that where the Murdoch family was?
- 46:09Speaker 1: I think it was South Carolina.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Yeah. The Murdochs. Did he retain their law firm?
- 46:14Speaker 1: I don't know if their law firm exists anymore.
- 46:16Speaker 2: All right.
- 46:18Speaker 1: So in 2026, Micah's family continued their Justice for Micah
- 46:21Speaker 1: campaign and began advocating for Micah's law in South Carolina,
- 46:25Speaker 1: which is proposed legislation designed to criminalize coercive control and
- 46:30Speaker 1: expand the state's legal definition of domestic abuse. I think
- 46:34Speaker 1: that was a problem in this case was because he
- 46:36Speaker 1: was the husband. No one really gave her... um her
- 46:40Speaker 1: case a lot of.
- 46:41Speaker 2: No they saw it as like domestic disputes right it's
- 46:43Speaker 2: like go home and it's like oh it's a marital
- 46:45Speaker 2: issue right like figure it out yeah but it's like
- 46:48Speaker 2: wait a minute if he's if he's if if a
- 46:50Speaker 2: man is beating the wife what's the matter if it's
- 46:52Speaker 2: the wife or it's the girlfriend and they're saying oh
- 46:54Speaker 2: you married him so you you you're stuck.
- 46:56Speaker 1: With him yeah So the Netflix documentary Death of a
- 47:01Speaker 1: Pastor's Wife brought the case to a massive national audience
- 47:04Speaker 1: and reignited public pressure for accountability. As of now, J.P.
- 47:08Speaker 1: Miller's federal trial has not yet begun. A judge recently
- 47:12Speaker 1: pushed the case back again, moving it from the September
- 47:15Speaker 1: 26th court term to to October of 2026. So hopefully,
- 47:20Speaker 1: JP Miller will go on trial in October of 2026.
- 47:24Speaker 1: If convicted, Miller faces up to five years in prison
- 47:27Speaker 1: on the cyber stalking charge and an additional two years
- 47:30Speaker 1: for making false statements to investigators, along with a potential
- 47:34Speaker 1: fine of up to 250,000. Following his not guilty plea,
- 47:39Speaker 1: Miller was released on $ 100, 000 unsecured bond. As conditions of
- 47:43Speaker 1: his release, he was required to surrender his passport, And
- 47:48Speaker 1: his DeLorean. So he can't go into.
- 47:50Speaker 2: And chop off his penis.
- 47:51Speaker 1: So he can't go back to 1950.
- 47:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 47:55Speaker 1: And wear an ankle monitor. I tell you, if this
- 47:58Speaker 1: guy was not hated before.
- 48:01Speaker 2: He's hated now.
- 48:03Speaker 1: I can't imagine that he can go out in public
- 48:05Speaker 1: anywhere with Susie Skinner after this documentary has aired. No,
- 48:08Speaker 1: he's probably got to wear it. Can you imagine?
- 48:10Speaker 2: This guy has a congregation that follows him. Of 15 people.
- 48:14Speaker 1: That's it.
- 48:15Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's right. It was like a little office space.
- 48:18Speaker 2: They just taped up stencil-lettered words on there. Yes. You
- 48:24Speaker 2: know what? That goes to what I was going to say.
- 48:26Speaker 2: He has to be the leader of his own congregation. Oh, yeah.
- 48:29Speaker 2: Because no one will fall for it. No one will
- 48:32Speaker 2: accept him. Or should I say, he wouldn't allow anyone
- 48:36Speaker 2: else to be a leader. That guy has to be
- 48:38Speaker 2: on top. Right. He has to be in charge.
- 48:40Speaker 1: Right.
- 48:40Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. Wait, what's his current place called? It's not
- 48:43Speaker 2: Solid Rock anymore. Mercy.
- 48:44Speaker 1: Mercy Church.
- 48:45Speaker 2: Mercy Church.
- 48:46Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think he travels. I think they have
- 48:48Speaker 1: to find like different little locations where he can preach from.
- 48:51Speaker 1: And he has like a congregation of 15.
- 48:52Speaker 2: It's a traveling congregation. Yeah.
- 48:55Speaker 1: It's a traveling congregation.
- 48:57Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 48:57Speaker 1: Um anyway if you're a follower of jp miller unfollow
- 49:02Speaker 1: please uh dm me so i can ask you why
- 49:05Speaker 1: you continue to follow him all right guys thank you
- 49:07Speaker 1: so much for listening till death do us part that
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