5 Chilling Details in the Case of Pastor’s Dead Wife as Family Questions Death

he had his sight set on her from a very. young age I was just thankful that I had. found out around 2:00 a.m. that morning. um from anybody else but him and in that. way things that go on behind closed. doors is only known by those people so. for him to have personal direct. knowledge of anything uh would be. surprising to me the sudden death of. Micah Miller is still raising a lot of. questions and the conversation continues.

we're going to go through some recent. updates in the case to make sense of. what is going on welcome to sidebar. presented by law on crime I'm Jesse. Weber hey everybody this is a law on. crime legal alert Google incognito. tracked users browsing data without. their knowledge yep well mastt Alliance. one of our legal sponsors is actually. helping users file for compensation due. to Google users privacy issues. surrounding Google incognito so if.

you've used Google incognito anytime. since 2016 you can start your claim in. less than 10 questions just go to. incognito claims.com. slidebar we have been following the. Tangled story of South Carolina woman. Micah Miller here on sidebar and we. wanted to update you on some recent. developments because it can be hard to. keep track of what has been happening in. this story and look we have been quite. fortunate to interview some key people. in this story which we're going to get.

into but before we even talk about. anything let me give you some background. on this so we're talking about. 30-year-old Micah Miller she was found. dead at Lumber River State Park just. across the state line in North Carolina. on April 27th she had reportedly. purchased a gun in the days before her. appearent suicide from a pawn shop the. Robison County Emmy ruling Micah died. from a self-inflicted gunshot wound her. body found in that park by the way. talking updates there was newly released. surveillance footage that apparently.

shows Micah going to a gas station. getting gas walking into the store to. buy an energy drink just hours before. her death and you would never know. what's about to happen again just only. later that day the manager of that gas. station reportedly said that nothing. seemed out of the ordinary regarding. Micah there was a chilling 911 phone. call that was released where you. seemingly hear Micah telling the. operator that she's about to end her. life and wanted her family to know where.

to find her police the medical examiner. they've ruled Micah's death as suicide. but that hasn't stopped theories and. rumors and accusations and a lot of. focus is being put on Miller's estranged. husband John Paul Miller and his alleged. mistreatment of Micah in fact the Sunday. after Micah died her husband 44-year-old. John Paul Miller a pastor announced his. wife's death during a recent service at. the church where he's a pastor P Solid.

Rock Church in Myrtle Beach and he. actually delivered a eulogy for M where. he talked about trying to raise her from. the dead she loves she she told me she. was she was so creative everything she. did was so creative what the next. picture what's the next. picture she'd stop we'd be on the way. like a show or something she said stop I.

got to get a picture I said we're going. to be late she said I don't care what's. the next picture. she next picture and as we try to piece. together the pieces of this puzzle we're. trying to understand what was Micah. going through what was the dynamic. between her and John Paul in fact in one. of her final posts on Facebook Micah. uploaded a selfie with the caption when. terrible terrible terrible things happen. to you you all know what I'm talking. about RFP resting peace face she.

included the hashtag still blessed and. God is good she also been posting videos. on her social media talking about. leaving abusive situations it doesn't. matter what what uh gender you are. abuses. abuse. and you are the bride of. Christ and my Bible says that he took. all the abuse you could think of for you. so that you didn't have to live that.

life of. slavery and. bondage. and pain and we have learned during the. course of this story that over a month. before Micah's death police reports. indicate that Micah had complained that. tracking devices were found on her cars. in one of the reports after Micah. apparently accused John Paul of placing. a tracker on her vehicle an officer. allegedly said that this was a civil. matter and that they were still legally. married so it doesn't seem like more. could be done and one major recent.

update news Nation reported that John. Paul Miller wrote a letter seemingly. apologizing for posting a topless photo. of Micah online the letter apparently. reads quote I'm sorry for putting a. picture of you on the internet it was. for less than 1 hour immediately taken. down I was hurt that you were telling. everyone horrible intimate details of my. past sin and I just wanted to try and. hurt you please forgive me it was evil. of me to do that.

well now for another update we had the. opportunity to sit down with Regina Ward. now Regina Ward is an attorney who was. representing Micah Miller in her. separation action from John Paul and we. definitely got a lot more contacts to. the situation we moved forward on the no. fault grounds um in South Carolina to. get a divorce you have to have grounds. it's adultery which um she had evidence. of that um also physical cruelty which. she had evidence of that and and then um.

she didn't want to go that route anymore. she wanted to try to leave the marriage. um as amicably as possible uh she do. want to uh go after him on fault grounds. and and you know put all of those things. out there she just wanted to be hey our. relationship is over with let's move on. we're going in different directions um. she had found her passion and she was. ready to do that and she was empowered. and and felt uplifted you know in that. we could pursue do this without um you.

know it being a just an allout litigated. fight so we moved forward on uh what's. called the grounds of one-year. separation um so it's not right for a. divorce yet but at the moment it's just. called it's called separate maintenance. and support a lot of people refer to. that as a legal separation um they are. legally separated whether there's a. court document or not um so the point. was uh that we were going to go forward. on this June 5th hearing wherein she was.

going to ask the court for specific. relief return and possession of certain. property of hers that she wanted to have. and um and then we would just uh wait. for the one year to pass and at the end. of one year separation then she would. file for an actual divorce at that time. now that accusation of infidelity is. interesting why because the Daily Mail. has just reported and published photos. that apparently show John Paul on a date. at a restaurant with another woman.

Just 4 days after Micah's death sources. telling the outlet that he was laughing. and drinking now to be clear we haven't. been able to independently verify the. photos or the situation as of yet but. that Dynamic is so important and with. that we had the opportunity the. privilege to sit down with Micah's. Father Michael Francis and he shared his. doubts about the findings the scene the. investigation into Micah's death and. keep in mind it was reported that John.

Paul was not in North Carolina when. Micah died but was actually in. Charleston South Carolina that he was. observed traveling on a highway in South. Carolina at 2:22 p.m. on the day Micah. died so seemingly has an alibi but let's. hear what Michael had to say since there. were multiple shell casings found and a. live round found it already didn't make. much sense so it would seemed that they. would automatically do a complete. toxicology not just blood alcohol and. and uh a complete autopsy which they did.

not do and we're just devastated that. they didn't because John Paul rushed The. Cremation process during the 911 call um. she's so slow and so you know but then. later there are uh I haven't even heard. them myself honestly um I have someone. who's going through all that for me and. filtering the information because. otherwise the more information I get.

that sounds off the more Furious I get. and I need to be able to focus and. control my emotions so but there is. screaming going on and such and that's. not something indicative of a. self-inflicted you know that's that's. sounds like a conf sounds like a you. know a fight and um with the bruising on. her hands and on her arm uh scratches on. her hands uh indicating defensive wounds. uh she had scratches on her arms and I.

mean on her on her hand and the coroner. in training had the uh Chief coroner. with her but she spoke out and said well. maybe that's from when they retrieved. her from the water and I said okay of. course maybe uh so you know uh was there. blood in those scratches and such they. had no answer very disappointing so um I. I basically said uh the scratches. indicate sometimes of scuffle or.

something. because the the area where she was there. was no trees or anything anyway there. was no trees in the water there was. nothing there that would have scratched. her hands the way they were I mean like. like this you so uh you know it showed. it it it it indicated that there was you. know some type of pressure do you have a. theory as to what you believe happened. to your. daughter okay well I'll I'll share what. we spoke to about with the. The Authority the sheriff in North.

Carolina um also as far as with his. location uh we've seen pictures of his. truck it had dark Windows was it even. him in there where is pictures of him. physically there when the car was at the. park and then the it was uh collected by. the authorities they didn't check for a. Tracker which blew my mind they had they. said oh we have all the evidence and. everything we asked them was there a. tracker on her car and they saidwell we. didn't check and we were flabbergasted.

this happened over and over during that. interview why didn't you check that we. know that there was three or four. trackers put on her Vehicles why. wouldn't you check to see if she was. followed they said oh we there there's. no cameras but we know she wasn't. followed her car is just out here and I. said well there's no trackers they said. no tracker uh I said well they you know. they could have removed it after they. did the deed so then the um Micah's. mother Angelita she said you know she. said this is this is mic's.

hand and this is and she asked me grab. this hand and then she pulled it up you. know and said it looks like someone. squeezed her hand and raised it up and. shot yeah wow so again we we couldn't. verify this this is the account of. Michael Francis kind of providing an. alternative understanding we also did. get a chance to speak to Sierra Francis. this is Micah's sister and one of the. things things uh Sierra has stepped in.

as special administrator of Micah's. estate and appears that there is kind of. a legal battle going on between uh that. estate and John Paul Miller in terms of. certain assets but one of the things. that we asked Sierra about was her. sister's mental state and the idea that. John Paul was acting as Micah's power of. attorney which is usually set up when. somebody can't make medical decisions. for themselves again trying to. understand what was mic situation so.

before Micah um married John Paul she. had no signs no history no indications. of mental illness at all he he had every. way to control her and he was very good. at manipulating the situation he had his. sight set on her from a very young age I. would guess probably 14 years old 14 or. 15 when we first came to the church um. and he you know he made sure that he. kept her exactly where he wanted her to. to the point of who she married.

um what job she picked up after she was. you know 18 he got her married and then. he U made her his secretary and his. babysitter and his let's go to lunch. person and oh you're so beautiful and. then when she was married same thing. best friends with her husband her. previous husband and uh manipulated the. situation where he could have him doing. something because he was his right-hand. man and then spend time with Micah alone. I also asked them about this allegation.

that came out that M was a suspect in. the theft of nearly $1,200 in charity. money for the solid rock missionary. program in Africa the investigation was. closed it was determined it was a civil. matter but let's hear what they had to. say that was investigated I have seen um. you know police excerts on that and from. what I've seen to my you know to best of. my knowledge it said that that was just. a domestic dispute and there was no. criminal charges to be filed okay and. also as far as the the amount that was.

mentioned uh Micah was having trouble. with the the websites releasing the. money to her from the donations such as. Vin Mo or stuff like that right uh they. were holding on to those funds as they. do for like the three-day period or. whatever gaining interest and uh so. during that period where the money. didn't show up yet he was accusing her. of stealing that money and then after. the fact after she's passed all the. money back in except one penny not to.

mention that money wasn't money that was. donated and she was stealing it this. money was hey I've put $600 out of my. pocket with the intention of hey you. know I will be reimbursed from this. because that's what she was told hey. spend your $600 to purchase you know all. the donuts that you're using for. fundraising it's a charity we'll make. sure we reimburse you okay now I want to. move on to another update and it. concerns Reginald Miller this is the. father of John Paul Miller and. father-in-law to Mike Miller and he. insists that his son's relationship with.

Micah has been misunderstood that he. wants to correct the record in an email. to the Daily Mail Reginal Miller says. quote I have a video of Micah on a. mission where she tells last year how. she took a gun to kill herself and. pulled the trigger and the bullet locked. in the gun in the second weeks of. marriage she went and got a gun and was. outside shooting up the neighborhood. when my son ran out to stop her she. spent the first 3 weeks in a mental. facility in all the time since then her. family refused to believe how sick she. was she was a very very sick young woman.

he also seemed to mention that Micah. wasn't overly emotional in her 911 phone. call just before her death but here is. what Regina Ward again Micah's former. attorney who we spoke to here's what she. had to say about that I can only tell. you what my client explained to me. happened um and basically there was a. situation where U she says that she did. get a gun and that she did put that to. her head that she did pull the trigger. and that it the bullet jammed um as far.

as the gun going off after that that did. not happen according to my client she. didn't you know say that that happened. um there's statement that she shot up. the neighborhood like she went through. you know shooting the gun that's not. true according to what my client relate. to me it was simply um you know the gun. jammed and that was the end of it. nothing else happened and and what about. the claim where he says her family.

refused to believe how sick she was she. was a very very sick young. woman okay well Mr Miller's father um. from what I understand and I don't have. all the details on that I'm not sure. exactly how much he was actually. involved um the other thing is that. things that go on behind closed doors is. only known by those people so for him to. having personal direct knowledge of. anything uh would be surprising to me. and um said to say that she was very.

very sick I don't think he is in a. position to make that call and pretty. much anything that he said in there is. going to be hear sa from his own son. who's going to spin it in his own. Direction by the way John Paul Miller's. lawyer Russell B long doubl down on. refuting any insinuations writing in a. statement quote it has come to light. that Micah Miller struggled with mental. illness specifically bipolar disorder. which were not properly managed led to. paranoid episodes and self-destructive. behavior following the untimely death of. Micah Miller unfounded rumors and false.

accusations began circulating on social. media and in various media Outlets. suggesting Pastor Miller's involvement. in her demise this created a buzz. causing local and National media Outlets. to be proliferating these falsehoods on. a mammoth proportion our client refutes. any report that suggests he ever abused. his wife now on that note let me go to a. recent interview we did on sidebar with. Charlotte Korn this is Micah Miller's. best friend and it was a fascinating. discussion because she actually provided.

us seemingly screenshots of. conversations from Micah and John Paul. Miller so this was the last conversation. between Micah and Charlotte it's dated. April 5th Micah writes you thank you for. your gentle warnings throughout the. years regarding my relationship with JP. I know that you knew I wasn't ready to. get out but looking back your warnings. were very helpful when trying to make. tough life decisions definitely have. replayed our convos in my head over and. over throughout the years and wished.

there was something I could do to get. out and now I've done it with a smiley. face emoji um and then later on she. writes yes things are looking up and are. headed in a great Direction what do you. make of. that I mean they were she was she had a. new purpose in life she had done a. mission trip um earlier that year and it. really sparked um a heart for Missions. for her and she had plans to go back and. um. really had a new desire to become a.

missionary um she was working at a new. job that she was. loving um she'd finally taken moves. legal moves um to end her previous. chapter and start a new one so things. were looking up and Charlotte made it. clear to us that Micah never indicated. she wanted to harm herself and that. there is this misconception that she was. off her meds and was having a psychotic. break now from there weal talked about. how John Paul notified Charlotte that.

Micah had died this is from JP Miller um. this is on April 28th at 6:28 a.m. and. it says I thought you two should know. Micah killed herself earlier today she. needed her lithium because she has been. having a three-month psychotic episode. I'll keep you posted on funeral what was. your reaction to. that uh I was just thankful that I had. found out around 2:00 a.m. that morning.

um from anybody else but him and in that. way um but of course my first thoughts. were this is the text from The Grieving. husband telling her best friend there's. another message that you sent us from. John Paul Miller and it's in a group of. people and if you could explain to us. who who all the people are in this group. but this is what the message uh appears. to show from John Paul this is what.

happens when you try to encourage. someone to divorce the person they love. and tell them they don't need medicine. and that they're not ill when they are. good job Francis family so who was he. writing that to and what what was that. about so that was the night of her death. at around 10:30 at night um they had. found out within a few hours of that. message and that was the text that he. decided. to send them at 2 a.m. when I found out.

from another friend um I was just in. total disbelief and thought there was. just some terrible misunderstanding so I. immediately called her sisters and they. were all together and confirmed. everything but um they they sent me that. message they. said this is this is how JP is uh. handling it yeah now Charlotte also. shared with us a text conversation. between John Paul Micah and herself from.

2022 so the message appears to show John. Paul Miller writing I would leave anyone. or anything for you I'm only asking for. the same respect you can't treat someone. like s and then leave you're supposed to. work it out stay and do whatever it. takes please don't be selfish this one. time I'm literally begging you to do the. right thing um The Godly thing and he. goes on to say I need you I want you and. I don't want to sleep alone ever okay so. Charlotte there were a lot of these.

messages what exactly was he talking. about here what was going on the. question that kind of kicked into them. having an argument was he asked her if. you could kiss a girl who would it be. and she said of course I I wouldn't kiss. a girl that's a ridiculous question I'm. not going to answer that but he kept. harping on it and harping on it and. finally she said fine I guess if I had. to kiss a girl it'd be Charlotte. but he did not like that answer uh.

because we were very good friends. obviously and we were spending a lot of. time together and we talked all the time. and so that just kind of made the switch. flip and um he started asking well what. kind of feelings do you have for. Charlotte and have y'all kissed and um. it just that. was the conversation that led into I. think a greater conversation which I. still don't have the full information on. but um but that was what kicked off this.

big blow up um I had a direct message. going with him and I. probably five six seven times wrote to. him John Paul stop messaging her I don't. know what's going on with you guys right. now but you are making this so much. worse please stop messaging her and I. just kept telling him um which goes to. show my reason for being in the message. was totally not for accountability like.

he so claimed and there's another. message if you can provide context this. it's from John Paul will will please ask. your wife to stop texting me things when. she has no effing clue what has happened. or is happening she has send wisdom out. of her mouth about how she would do what. Micah did blah blah blah and it goes on. what is this about uh it was at the end. of the night around 1:00 in the morning. and Micah was concerned that. he truly was driving up there to get her.

back he had stopped responding to the. messages that she was in with her sister. he'd stopped responding to the message. that we were in together um and then. when he stopped responding Micah was. obviously very concerned and um she said. he turned off his location services so. she didn't know where he was and she was. asking me what to do and I said honestly. Micah I would call the police and have. them do a wellness check um just to make. sure he's he's there and she did um and.

once he once he finally started writing. back um his direct message to me because. I I said. JP if if you don't write me us back soon. like I'm going to come over there um. which I would not have but um he finally. wrote back and he said and I. just let you fill in the blanks here but. effing B tried to get me arrested. and um I said John Paul she wanted to do.

a wellness check you know with. everything that you're saying I would. have done the same thing and me saying. that is what sparked his message to my. husband and myself about stop texting me. you have no effing clue um because I. said I would I would have done the same. thing now I'm going to leave you with. one more update in the Micah Miller case. and that is that the Robison County. Sheriff's office has announced that the. FB FBI has launched a parallel.

investigation into this case but to be. clear not into the death of Micah Miller. again authorities still saying this was. a suicide but something seemingly. connected to the case we're not sure. where this FBI investigation will go we. are not sure what new details we will. learn but these are some updates that. have currently come out and we will. continue to follow anything that happens. and I just want to thank our guests who. have come on sidebar to talk about this. speaking to us about Micah and what has.

to be just a very very difficult time. for them so again just want to thank. them for coming on and sharing those. details that is all we have for you here. on sidebar everybody thank you so much. for joining us as always please. subscribe on Apple podcast Spotify. YouTube wherever you get your podcast. I'm Jesse Weber I'll speak to you next. time. [Music].