Bramble.
Arbing, but a bee.
A church in South Carolina has gone viral recently.
Even widely talked about on the national news and it all starts with a few very strange
sermons.
A younger looking pastor by the name of Pastor JP is on stage giving a sermon.
He says, if you ever want to know what's going on in my life, it's always what I'm preaching
about.
God is so good to do that every single time.
One day I'm going to preach about getting rich, strong, healthy and finding a hot wife
that loves Jesus.
That's what I'm going to do.
I'm just kidding.
I told you I shouldn't be here today.
I shouldn't be here today.
He holds both of his hands up like he's surrendering and it's kind of the whole congregation
laughs.
But maybe it's a slightly uncomfortable laugh because there on his ring finger, on his
left hand, is a wedding band.
Pastor JP is talking about finding a hot wife that loves Jesus when he's already married
to his wife who is also very active in the church.
It's just weird.
It's humiliating for his wife.
It sounds like he wants a new wife.
Honestly, that's what it sounds like.
Like he has very weird humors out what it looks like or he's not being serious.
It sounds like he's being a little serious, but he's trying to laugh it off.
And people don't know how to react.
Yes.
There's a lot of people the wrong way as it should, but that's not even what makes
these sermon videos circulate all over mainstream media and on social media.
It's not until a few weeks later, Pastor JP gives another sermon.
Pastor JP is standing in front of his congregation where he says in this high pitched, shaky voice,
I got to lay next to her, spend time with her about four times this week and each time
it's still didn't hit me.
I thought she was going to wake up.
I've been trying to raise her from the dead one time this week.
This sermon is from his wife's funeral after she was found dead in a state park, in a national
park.
A sermon Pastor JP gives on how he tried to resurrect his wife from the dead because he
couldn't believe it.
But in that sermon, he fails to mention that she was in the process of separating from
him.
She had a ledge that he groomed her since she was 15 years old.
He was allegedly having an affair with another woman from the church and a long list of allegations
of abuse that have been made against him.
That was omitted from the sermon.
This is the case of Micah Miller and everyone wants to know what exactly happened to the
pastor's wife.
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So with that being said, let's get started.
A very bizarre video of the local pastor of South Carolina goes viral.
This time it's not a sermon, but it is of Pastor JP.
He's laying on the grass with his cheek up against the ground.
His face is almost all smushed into the grass.
It looks like he was about to get out of his car, but his whole body went limp and he
dives face first into the grass.
He's like half in his car, half on the grass.
And it just looks like, for some reason, someone put super glue onto the grass because
he's not getting up.
His face is not moving.
It feels like he stuck in that position.
His palms are just digging into the ground.
The video is taken by a worried pastor by, who knew Pastor JP.
But also knew that Pastor JP was recently upset because his wife was leaving him.
He had five kids that were no longer going to have both parents in the house.
And he was just going through a lot.
The person recording asks, what's the matter?
Are you okay?
What's the matter?
JP starts talking in this, JP stands for John Paul, by the way.
How old is John Paul?
At this point he's probably, okay, wait, it was 2015.
He's 44 today.
So like 34?
34?
Yeah, he's like 35 in the video.
Oh, wow.
JP starts talking in this incredibly high pitched voice.
So high pitched, it sounds like he inhaled a helium balloon.
I switched medications today.
It makes me go crazy.
Oh, is somebody helping you?
I think something is coming to get me.
Oh, okay.
I thought I was going to see Jesus.
Okay, but you got Mark coming to help you, right?
He continues to blubber between sentences and he starts stopping.
I feel these ants, they keep biting me, bite me everywhere.
Is your medication something they gave you?
Yeah, they were drunk.
They were doing this in their days as they were something.
There's ants all over me.
It feels like there's ants on you.
He's still on the ground?
Yes.
The pastor starts crying in the grass like this high pitched, whining sound.
There's no ants on you though.
It's just, maybe that's how you feel, JP, but there's no ants on you.
There's not on the grass.
I'm going to see Jesus.
I'm going to see Jesus.
No, no, no, no.
No, I just need to get to you, Jesus.
I just need to get to you, Jesus.
I just want it to happen quickly.
I don't want anything to steal me.
Don't look at them.
Please, don't look at them, Jesus.
I just want to be able to talk to them in bed at night.
They're getting in my head now.
I'm afraid.
I just look at my room all day and look at the ceiling and I wonder what my kids are doing,
what my wife is doing.
I don't want my mom anywhere near.
They're crazy.
I want to get off medication and this is what it does.
They're crazy.
I can't eat.
I can't sleep.
I can't do nothing.
I feel like ants in my eyes.
I can't open up my eyes.
It sounds like he's under something.
Yeah, there were allegations.
Okay, from a third party perspective, this is, I'm not saying this is what happened, but
considering the religious context, some people say that he looks possessed.
Some people say it looks like a drug psychosis.
Some people say it looks like a mental breakdown.
But it's definitely not normal behavior at all.
Now the pastor goes completely silent, almost catatonic silent, just laying their breathing
and the neighbors start zooming in on his face.
It seems like either pastor JP is losing it or perhaps in some sort of, like I said, psychosis.
The video itself is very alarming and just unsettling.
Bizarre.
I'm not even sure what the right word for it is.
It's just a very strange video made even more strange by the fact that this is a pretty
well-known pastor in South Carolina.
That's the subject of this video.
But the timing of this video being posted onto Facebook and the caption that is uploaded
along with it makes the video even more intriguing.
The video was posted onto Facebook May 10th of this year, 2024.
A few weeks after pastor JP's wife was found dead in a national park.
The caption reads, I believe the saying goes, getting a taste of your own medicine.
And I mean that quite literally.
You have used and abused for way too long JP, only to get up on that pulpit and consistently
discredit your victims by airing out intentionally degrading and inappropriate personal information.
Doing that allows you to control the narrative.
Now we have the death of your wife that you claim only took her life because of mental
illness.
Fact is, JP, nobody was ever mentally ill until they met you.
You are the common denominator in all of this.
This video is only proof that you yourself have issues and you know what medication can
do to someone.
JP, I could have done this anonymously, meaning the poster could have posted this video anonymously.
But I want you to see it coming from me so you don't go after anybody else.
You know I've got receipts and you know I'm not scared.
I have never met anyone like you.
But what I've learned is and what I've been taught is people like you repeat their behavior
and every so often they slip up and show who they really are.
Solid rock church.
Let me introduce you to your pastor.
You don't see this version on Sundays.
This is the guy that you allow to give you and your family counsel.
The guy you share your personal vulnerable information with that he will use against you
when and if you question him.
To the ones who are the reason that I'm involved in all of this, I hope you understand
why I had to do this.
Enough is enough.
Someone to raise awareness and most want justice.
Well Godspeed JP.
If you know, you know.
Internet do your thing.
Hashtag justice for Micah and many others.
Wait, so the video was taken in 2015?
Yes.
And in 2024 this year Micah passed away.
And then a few weeks later, video was posted.
Yes.
We don't do you know who posted it?
A neighbor and someone that I guess is familiar with the church.
And this is the caption that he posts along with it.
So at first when Micah passed away, it seems like the news was very much retained in
that local area of South Carolina.
And slowly as things start developing, such as this Facebook post, it becomes national
news because it's so cryptic.
What does this mean?
I mean, people are just trying to figure out like what the hell is going on in that small
church in South Carolina?
What did Pastor JP do?
Pastor JP's wife filed for divorce October 2023.
In the divorce document, she claims that her husband Pastor JP cheated on her multiple
times.
In an affidavit's underwear attorney, she writes, since the day we became husband and wife,
I have been abused in every way I can think of, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, financially,
and physically.
He has harassed me physically and electronically with letters, phone calls, emails, and texts.
He's hacked into my emails, hacking my personal Facebook and impersonating me, using
my stolen phone to send texts and emails out to church members pretending to be me.
I'm seeing friends and family saying that I'm sleeping with teenagers from our church
and showing up in person at places around town.
He has installed three different tracking devices on my vehicle.
This was sent to her attorney nine days before Micah Miller, the wife, would be found dead
in a marsh.
What day when was she found?
April 27.
Four days after her death, sources state that Pastor JP was out seen at a bar with his
alleged mistress.
Pastor JP decides to have a pre-marital sermon series.
This was a while back before his wife passed.
He believed these are sermons every couple should be ministered before getting married.
This is like the most valuable lesson of marriage and being in a relationship that he can
pass on to his congregation.
The sermon was going to be broken up into two different parts.
One would be about every man's battle in a marriage.
The other would be about every woman's battle in a marriage.
That's what he titled them, don't come for the messenger.
Obviously, I know that there's, it's not everything is heterosexual.
But during the man's battle sermon, he starts off by saying, every man's battle is looking
at things that do not belong to us and lasting after those things.
Let me tell you how you know if a woman is loose.
If she doesn't wear a bra or if her bathing suit in the back barely covers up her crack.
And if every picture on social media is either in a bikini or showing off her chest, that's
how a man can tell if a woman is loose.
Do if your daughter dresses like that, I don't want to say be ashamed because that's not
godly.
If your daughter dresses like that, you need to be convicted of it and teach her how to
be a modest girl and a modest woman because every unsaved man in the entire world is looking
to see bra bikini thongs and what she shows on Facebook.
That's how you can tell a loose one.
And every man in this room knows exactly what I'm talking about.
That's why all of our faces are so red right now.
Listen ladies, you don't want a man to want you for what you look like and what you're
flaunting off.
Listen, once you lose that body, you're going to lose the man.
He also states that there are three reasons why a married couple does not have healthy intimacy.
The three reasons are number one, there's an explicit video addiction somewhere in the
marriage.
One of them is addicted to porn.
Two, there's a negative or unkind spouse because a man would rather, unfortunately, this
is sick and sad.
A man would rather have a computer screen than a woman who's unkind and nagging and fault
finding and negative.
I mean, in a heartbeat.
And most men, they'd rather have a computer or a phone than a woman who's always fussing
and gripping about something.
Or the third reason, homosexual struggles.
Yeah.
But there's a way to fix that, he says.
That means every wife in here is in a very powerful position.
You're in a position of, you've got great responsibility.
If you make excuses, if you're negative, okay, I promise you've Satan has a computer image
right around the corner, don't refuse sex to each other.
Do you know that you can actually help your husband in the area not be tempted by you
being a giver in this area?
That's amazing, amazing.
That's why when you walk as a married couple, you make sure both of you are 100% satisfied.
He also tells the wives to not speak too much about their husband's failures or else
he will never open up.
He says, if you say to a man, you did such a good job painting that wall.
He hears success, success, success.
I love you.
I'm attracted to you, success.
I want you, success.
If you say you never pick up your socks off the ground, fail your failure fair.
I've worked 40 hours this week.
I'm paying the bills and I take care of the kids.
And that's what you want to bring up.
My socks that I'm a failure.
I don't want you to get out of my life.
That's how a man's going to feel.
You have to be very careful when you talk to a man to make him a success.
He says one of his favorite pastors had one said, if a man knows when he fails, he will
be seen as a failure, he will never repent.
He will never change and never be healed.
But if a man knows when he fails that there's somebody there who will pray for him, give
him counseling, encourage him and get him restored, that man will step forward and repent
every single time.
He says, I want every wife in here to know that if your husband faithfully tithes, which
means he has financial wisdom, tithing is offering you give money to the church.
To the church he owns, by the way.
I want every wife in here to know if your husband faithfully tithes, which means he has financial
wisdom, if he serves in church and he's willing to do whatever it takes to be free from pornography,
he is in the top one percent of men in the entire world, hallelujah.
Now he may eat Doritos in bed, he may leave his dirty drawers hanging around in the living
room, I don't know, but he may have some other issues in there, but for heaven's sake, shut
your mouth and love that man.
And thank God he's in the one percent of men.
The next week was a segment for every wife's battle.
During the every wife's battle, he asks the crowd what they think every woman's battle
is, and they finally start responding out loud.
Any jokes, it's obviously your mouth.
No, no, no, no, I'm joking, calm down.
The truth is, ladies do speak more than men.
So the Bible says the more you talk, the more you're likely to sin.
Most of the gossip comes from ladies.
Most of the negativity comes from the ladies.
I'm sorry, it's just because you talk the most.
We think it, y'all say it.
This is kind of ironic coming from someone who yaps for hours every Sunday.
And I don't mean this in a crude way, but if I were to preach to the ladies today, to
the wives about the words that come out of your mouth, that would be the equivalent to
me preaching to the men last week about adultery or masturbation.
The greatest enemy a woman will ever face in her life is not her ex-husband.
It's not her parents that did not affirm her.
It's not her boss.
It's not the devil.
The greatest enemy a woman will ever face in life is the battle that's going on inside
her mind.
You ladies, y'all can think a thousand things at once.
The smallest thing can happen and you can visualize the divorce and think about 20 things
that if someone offends you today in church, you had at least 20 things they did that offended
you before and it all comes to the forefront of your mind.
He then brings up a visual of a man's brain and a woman's brain.
He says, men have about six thoughts.
That's about it.
Men think about money work.
They think about food, sex, sleep, and I'm going to be kind and say they also think about
God.
Other than that, men don't think about nothing.
Yeah, men should not be in power.
Then he says that this is what a woman's brain looks like.
Does this dress make me look bad?
I can't believe my husband wore this today.
I don't like the person that's sitting next to me.
I'm a kid who can't.
I should have been.
Am I a good mom and I had mom?
I bought McDonald's for the kids last night.
What's wrong with me?
I can't believe the sermon.
He's going to minister to me.
I don't know if I remember that scripture.
Not that.
Wait, do I have my Bible with me?
All these thoughts.
He said he compares a woman's mind to a hoarder's house.
Very cluttered.
Completely cluttered and everybody else can see it too.
He says.
He also compares the clutter in a woman's mind to be equivalent to a man committing adultery.
If you go and think, you know, my husband never closes the pantry door and you want to
bring it up every time, you have to tell yourself, what if he never closes it for the rest
of your marriage?
Are you still going to be married, Tim?
Of course you are.
Then why bring it up?
Why even think about it?
Is it that big of a deal?
And you think, well, no.
It's not that big of a deal.
Then don't bring it up if it's not that big of a deal of all the great things he does
and that's the one thing you're going to talk about.
Is that he doesn't close the cabinet doors?
Just close them and let it go.
Which obviously, as a woman with a very cluttered mind, I find great errors and faults in this
very skewed way of thinking.
But at least some people could argue.
At least Pastor JP walks the talk.
He's a great husband.
He's in a loving marriage.
Maybe he knows something.
Maybe we're just spiteful people who need to find purpose.
One day, JP's wife comes home and finds him in a compromising position with the babysitter.
The girl that watches their children in their house, the one that JP has known since she
was 15 years old, the one that he has been a mentor to for most of her teens, I would
say, the one that would listen to JP no matter what, because she believed he was a man of
God and would give her guidance.
JP was having an affair with that girl, the babysitter, Micah Miller.
Oh, so Micah is the second wife?
Yes.
There's a lot of sentiment towards this because the first wife, you would think that she hates
her ex-husband and probably the woman that had an affair with her husband.
However, you'll see that the first wife is actually maintains a close friendship with
Micah.
And there's a lot of reasons for that.
We're going to get into it.
A fisherman named Johnny was out in the lumber river park for a few hours now.
He's out in the water.
This is in South Carolina.
He's enjoying his Saturday, he's drifting up and down, trying to be as still as possible
so he doesn't scare the fish away.
Lumber River Park is well known for having these incredibly smooth, incredibly slow water
currents, making it very perfect for fishermen, kayakers, canoeers of all skill levels.
The average water current in the river is a striking two miles per hour.
You know what else moves at two miles per hour?
Ants.
So it's very slow.
It's not really a river.
It's perfect for Johnny and other fishermen.
There's a lot of alligators as well in the parks.
You have to be careful.
Perhaps that's why Johnny never goes swimming in the water.
He basically only ever stays in his boat.
He'll find a little spot cast a line and just sit in the safety of his boat.
There's thick trees on both sides of the river, but people say the river feels more like
a marsh.
The water is that deep, dark green with the tree roots twisting into the river bank.
Now, it's mid afternoon when Johnny first hears it.
He hears someone crying and he can't really make it out.
It's very distant.
According to reports, he heard it for just a few minutes, but when he looked around the
river bank to see if anybody was there crying, he would try to look into the tree lines,
but it was so thick he couldn't see anything.
Johnny himself said that if he had seen someone, he would have checked up on them all day,
but all he heard was a soft, distant cry that lasted a few minutes and then it stopped.
The next thing he heard was a gunshot.
So when he sits up and looks around, there's nothing.
It's quiet.
The crying has stopped.
The gunshot is gone.
Later that day, Johnny finds what he said was one of those, what are the ladies call,
Fanny Packs.
It was just a few feet from the water's edge.
It was black.
It had a couple of items in there, including $500 in cash, a cell phone and a small Bible.
Johnny discovers that the police were investigating the Lumber River Park.
He hands the bag to the police and all of the contents inside and inside the police find
everything Johnny had said would be in there.
Plus a small wallet.
The ID reads, Micah Miller.
The police would also locate Micah's black Honda Civic.
The car tank is full of gas and inside is a homemade sandwich that had been packed that
remained untouched.
In the cup holder is an open, Celsius energy drink that was bought at a gas station recently.
And shortly after, the police find Micah dead in the water from a gunshot wound.
JP's first wife, Allison States, about finding out that her husband at the time was having
an affair with Micah.
She said, prior to my knowledge of JP's sexual relationship with Micah during our marriage,
both Micah and Micah's husband at the time, Jeremy, became very close to our family.
And to some degree, I took Micah under my wing as my older daughter.
I taught her to drive.
I took her to get her driver's license.
I allowed her to take care of our children, shared family meals together in our home,
provided her guidance and advice, and she even began working in the church.
Which I think that Allison has every right to be upset at whoever she wants to be upset
with in this situation.
But she continues, despite the initial destruction caused by JP's infidelity for several years,
there was a part of me that was relieved to know that Micah would be present in the home
when JP had periods of visitations with our children.
I viewed her as a safety net for our children.
What?
Which is a very interesting thing.
I mean, nobody would blame Allison for having a little bit of anger or resentment for
all the parties involved.
But she still trusts Micah more than her own ex-husband, more than the father of her own
children.
Why?
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some people believe, a lot of people believe
that Micah is not really the other woman.
Like you know how in situations like this people might think, okay, he's cheating.
This is the other woman, right?
But a lot of people alleged that this might have been part of JP's plan allegedly.
Some people speculate and alleged that maybe he had been having relations with Micah, not
sexually, maybe emotionally, mentally, maybe he was manipulating her since she was 15.
Micah joined JP's church when she was 15 years old and he was the youth pastor.
JP takes Micah under his wing and since she's 15, he is kind of her mentor, leader in life.
When she turns 18, he officiates her wedding to a guy named Jeremy, who also happens to
be a close friend of JP's.
So some people even speculate it's like he's deciding what she's going to do with her
life.
Because I don't know.
The vibe that people get is that her and Jeremy did not just like fall in love naturally.
It seems kind of it was recommended it was set up to a degree.
Jeremy also works for the church and Micah starts working as his babysitter.
JP would have his wife, Allison, who also works for the church and Jeremy, Micah's husband
at the time, out doing church stuff while he and Micah allegedly were home alone with
the kids.
He would allegedly shower her with compliments the whole time and take her to lunch while
their spouses were working at the church and he's the one telling them what to do with
the church.
One person close to the couple said, JP just has this way of taking over someone's mind.
Micah and Jeremy would spend a lot of time at the Miller's house rehearsing for music
for the church.
It just seemed kind of suspicious that they would always be hanging out.
Always together.
He always had them around.
It's like JP did it underhandedly to subliminally get into Micah's mind.
He had her wrapped around his little finger and she would jump even when she was married
to Jeremy.
But he did it in such a sneaky way and she was just a sweet person.
A lot of people did not feel like this was a more typical situation of a husband leaving
his wife for a younger woman.
More so, the sentiment seemed that the husband allegedly grooms a young girl until he believes
that she's fully under his control and then he leaves his wife for her.
That's what people felt the situation was.
But either way, people felt they can only speculate from the outside.
Who's a huge scandal at the church, but eventually most third party outsiders, they get over
it and they just hope for the best for all parties.
In 2017, about two years after JP and Allison separate, Pastor JP calls on his congregation
to come to the beach for a baptism.
Micah is there with him, obviously, and is standing in the sand looking out into the
ocean and this plane drives by or flies by with a banner.
And the banner reads, will you marry me, Micah?
Micah has no reaction.
She glances around the whole church's clapping and cheering and she leans into Pastor JP
and asks, why is everyone cheering?
She didn't have her contact lenses in so she couldn't read the sign.
And it was kind of a cute proposal story and the whole church, or at least the members
of the church that stayed, were very excited and hopeful for this new chapter, this new love
story, I guess.
What's their age gap at that point or their age gap?
14 years.
Okay, so he was, were you ever with this?
This was in 2017, but when she was 15, he would have been much older.
And the people that did stay at the congregation, I think that the problem is, it's very hard
to hate on JP and Micah as a couple, primarily because it's very hard to hate Micah.
Everybody said that she's just the sweetest, that's how everybody describes her.
She's just the most loving person that you could imagine.
And Allison, the first wife, maintains a good relationship with Micah after her split
with Pastor JP.
So November 7th, 2017, at 23 years old, Micah marries JP, the pastor that she is known
since she was 15, the one that officiated her first marriage when she was 18, and now
she is marrying her longtime leader in mentor, 37-year-old JP.
She would take on the role of being the pastor's wife and being a stepmom to five children.
And yes, the way that their marriage begins is alarming and it causes a bit of a stir
at the church.
I would imagine because of the major power imbalance, the affair of the fact that he's known
her since she's 15 and he was 29 at the time, the fact that he was her mentor and pastor
during those formative years, the fact that she's 23 and he has five kids that she's
going to be a stepmom to, like I said, the fallout was pretty big.
It stated that a lot of people left the congregation, but the ones that stayed said, okay, well, hopefully
JP is going to treat his wife this time the way God intended him to.
But perhaps, old since I heard, a few years into the marriage, the gossip in the community
was, JP's son had joined the local soccer team, made friends with another boy whose parents
are also part of the church.
Well, now, JP is allegedly sleeping with that kid's mom, so his son's soccer buddies mom.
Her name is Suzie and she is married.
Now both of them have denied the affair, but according to JP's ex-wife, Allison, it was
pretty out in the open.
It didn't seem like they were trying to hide it.
Allison said JP would even use their son to facilitate play dates, if you will, with Suzie
and her son.
And look, maybe Allison is at the stage where she's like, you do you, do whatever you want,
you're my ex-husband, but she said that it was starting to impact the kids.
She said the kids knew exactly what's going on between JP and Suzie and all their friends
were talking about it and it was causing their children stress and embarrassment.
JP and Suzie both deny having the affair, like I said, but Allison refers to Suzie as his
paramour, aka his mistress.
But it seems somehow JP was able to gaslight Micah into believing that it was just another
woman coming onto him and he just lacked the guts to get rid of her.
Again, this is all alleged, but allegedly, in 2021, around August, Suzie's husband Chris,
who is also part of the church, finds out what's going on between his wife and the pastor
and allegedly he confronts the pastor about the affair and he tells him, you leave my wife
and children alone.
Two weeks after this alleged confrontation, JP is up at the podium at the church and he
says, we are here today and it's very exciting.
It's very, very exciting to preach at a funeral in which I don't have to lie.
It's probably my first funeral where I get to say all the truthful stuff.
Pastor JP was leading Chris's funeral, Suzie's skinner's husband.
About a week before Chris's death, JP starts a sermon on a Sunday by saying, don't
ever let a test tell you who you are.
This is an evaluation tool to help you confirm and personally analyze yourself.
We all need a vision.
He said that we're going to be doing a disc personality test, D-I-S-C, which each of
the letters stand for character traits, D for being dominant, direct, decisive, results-oriented,
confident, focused on accomplishing bottom line results, strong willed and forceful.
I, influence, people that are outgoing and enthusiastic, optimistic, people-oriented,
focused on building relationships and influencing others, often seen as very persuasive and
talkative.
S is for steadiness, patient, accommodating, calm, consistent, focused on operation and
maintaining stability, often seen as dependable and supportive.
C typically stands for conscientiousness, analytical and systematic, precise and accuracy focused,
concerned with quality and competency.
Often seen as very careful and cautious people.
JP tells the congregation that he took the test and he got incredibly depressed because
he ranked D and I, dominant and influential.
He said he wanted to be a pastor and people don't like D's.
They like the S's.
The S's are the ones that are calm and sweet and steady.
He said, high D, their weaknesses, they're very direct.
They're always thinking in their mind.
No matter who's talking, they're always thinking this.
Get to the point.
They're impatient.
They can't relax until a project is complete.
They lack empathy.
They're arrogant and they can't say.
I can't even read this.
They can't say it.
I can't read it.
I was wrong.
Are these recorded?
Yes, recorded and posted onto the church website and YouTube.
He describes D's like himself as like a lion who dares provoke him.
They're incredibly intimidating to confront.
He starts listing off a list of high D personality types.
The devil, Lucifer himself, Hillary Clinton and Hitler are all high D's.
He says the high D's, they fear nothing at all.
The only thing they fear is not getting something done.
You know, this feels like someone, you take one of these bus fee quiz and then that's
your whole personality.
You're kind of like, I'm just, I can't help myself.
Yes, and he acts like he doesn't want to be a high D, but he seems pretty boastful about
being a high D.
Exactly.
And come on, it's just a little quiz, not serious.
Yes.
Now, their sermon is uploaded to their YouTube channel September 5th, 2021.
So it could have been filmed this Sunday before or even before then, but the timing is still
quite interesting and it's fascinating because September 6th, 2021, Chris Skinner, Susie Skinner's
husband is found dead.
Chris Skinner, Susie's husband, this is the alleged mistress that he's cheating on
Micah with.
Chris Skinner is an author and inspirational speaker.
He actually became a quadriplegic after being in a car accident with a drunk driver.
He met Susie through his rehabilitation process and it said that she is the one that introduced
him to the church and into Christianity.
Since then, I mean, Chris just seems like the type of guy you go to when you need help.
When you need someone to kind of give you some sort of guidance and inspiration, he
was a very loved man.
And then on September 6th, 2021, he tragically died.
He was found drowned in a community pool in Myrtle Beach.
He was stated that his wheelchair tipped into the pool and he became trapped underneath
it.
Now, I do want to make it explicitly clear that the police stated there were no signs of
foul play.
CCTV footage from the community center showed that he had gone there alone and they had
ruled his death an accident.
JP's ex-wife, Allison, remember how she stated that JP would use their children to go
hang out with Susie Skinner and it was bad for their kids.
And she said that she confronted JP about exposing their children to the affair and not setting
the right example by them and she told them don't ever let her happen again.
Now the interesting thing is, soon after this confrontation that she has with her ex-husband,
Pastor JP calls her to tell her, hey, Susie's husband had died in a drowning accident.
He sounds upset and he asks Allison, this is out of the blue, to please pray.
Allison said just the timing of it all, all of it is just so bizarre.
She said all of it was bizarre.
But I do want to make it clear once again that there is absolutely nothing that connects
JP Miller to the death of Chris Skinner.
But some believe that Chris was driven to self-exit.
There are reports that the CCTV footage that is obviously not public shows Chris alone
at the pool and he drives his wheelchair directly into the pool is what it alleges.
Officially, his death has been ruled a tragic accident.
So this is all going on while Pastor JP is married to Micah.
And also you say Chris was at the pool by himself?
Yeah.
Is that something that he usually do?
Is that something that happens?
It doesn't appear that way.
Right?
It's kind of the setting is very strange for him.
Very odd.
Micah has a very close friend by the name of Charlotte.
Charlotte said she received a very bizarre message a little while before Micah was found dead.
She said it was weird.
She probably thought it was an accident at the time, at least initially.
But she said that she had been added into a group chat with Micah and Micah's husband JP.
On what?
Just text message.
She gets added into this group chat with Micah, JP, and suddenly Charlotte is in there.
They're not planning a trip.
Charlotte doesn't even live in Mertel Beach.
She lives in Virginia now.
It was just out of the blue.
She gets invited into this group chat and she gets a text message from JP.
The message reads,
I would leave anyone or anything for you.
I'm only asking for the same respect.
Charlotte is like, what is going on right now?
It's like being a fly on the wall for a Mertel flight.
Why is she even in this group chat right now?
Can they see she's in there?
Yes, they added her.
JP continues, you can't treat someone like shit 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, the godly thing,
the only thing that will work.
I need you.
I want you.
And I don't want to sleep alone ever.
But if you choose this, I will not beg you to come back.
I won't put up with this again.
This is literally your last chance to make things right.
I'm too old, too hurt, and you have put me through too much to continue letting you treat
me like shit while I pay for your bills and do whatever you want.
I need you to act like a godly wife this one time and prioritize your marriage over
your family, friends and feelings.
Clearly he's talking to his wife, Micah.
And Charlotte is Micah's friend.
Why would he add her?
Clearly they're in a fight.
What does Charlotte have anything to do with this?
JP then sends another lengthy text message.
Charlotte is in this text so she can hold me accountable for this.
What you've done in our marriage this time is totally unacceptable and no man would put
up with it.
But I'm willing to give you one more chance.
I'm asking one that you repent.
Two, hear my heart and pretend like you understand why I'm hurt.
Three, come home now.
If you don't do these things that will help me feel loved, safe and prioritize, then our
marriage is officially over and I cannot allow my heart to be put through this ever again.
I love you when I'm willing to do whatever it takes, but I will not be treated this way
and defamed so horribly anymore.
Nobody responds.
I mean, what do you respond to that?
He allegedly texts again.
We used to be the best of friends and I'm shocked that you would throw all of that away.
Maybe it's because you want to live with Charlotte.
Why would you want to live with her?
Or should I tell her?
Go ahead, Charlotte.
Ask Micah why she would want so badly to stay with you.
Please ask her.
I'd love to hear how honest she is.
Since she threw me under the bus today with my church elders after everything else you've
done.
By 9 a.m., there will be nothing left inside this house that has anything to do with
you.
If you want your clothes, shoes, jewelry, pictures, furniture, books, anything that is
an attachment to you, then you need to be here before 9 a.m.
Everything is going to good will.
Finally, Micah responds in the group chat.
Why are you being crazy?
I just wanted to visit my sister.
Why put your sister before your husband?
That's the continual problem.
Once, just once put your husband first.
Micah responds, I make 100 decisions a day that put you first.
No wife would do this to her husband in the most desperate time of need.
I'm coming to you.
You're a horrible wife to do this.
When I arrive, I'm going to raise hell.
Your siblings are going to be a ball of night.
If you leave now, I'll turn around.
If you come now, you are trespassing.
I don't care.
Ha ha ha.
That's funny.
You can call the cops.
You did this.
Charlotte would later ask Micah what that was about.
And allegedly, this whole fight between JP and Micah starts because Pastor JP wanted to
play a little game that night.
He said it would be fun.
And he kept asking his wife, Micah, all these fun little questions.
And one of them was, if you had to kiss a girl, which girl would it be?
She said, what?
No, I'm not responding to that.
I'm not answering that.
Micah did not want to answer this question.
It's weird.
It's uncomfortable.
And maybe she knew that he would lash out at her regardless of who she picks, even though
he keeps saying it's just a game, allegedly.
But he keeps asking, allegedly.
So finally, she just responds, Charlotte, because she wouldn't tell.
She's making a joke.
You don't kiss and tell.
And also, Charlotte is one of her best friends.
And this explosively leads into a massive fight.
It is alleged.
Where Micah leaves to stay with her sister for a bit to cool off.
If this is true, then this is very concerning.
It seems like if Micah doesn't get away from this guy, something very bad is going to happen
very soon.
Just the behavior of dragging another person into a group chat, that is so sick.
Yeah.
He's obviously doing it to his advantage.
Like, I don't even know how to describe that.
Right?
He, it's a setup is how I feel if this is true, if this happened.
And I say that for legality purposes, my personal opinion is I don't know that would be a very
bizarre lie to make up, but who knows, never say never, right?
There are text messages that happen released.
Those messages happen released.
Oh, those have been released.
Yes, but it's alleged because it hasn't been confirmed.
And I don't think that we can confirm that's his phone number.
And he was the one texting on it.
You get the legality.
But it feels like a setup to me where somebody asks you a question and they're like, no,
it's for fun.
Oh, yeah.
And then you were, and then the part where he texts Charlotte and is like, ask her why?
Ask her why she would want to live with you.
It's making it into something that it never was.
And I'm sure especially considering his sentiments for relationships and the fact that he thinks
one of the three reasons that a heterosexual relationship cannot be intimate is because
someone is having quote, homosexual thoughts.
I mean, I feel like he's probably putting a very strong stigma.
Like I think it's, yeah, he's homophobic.
He's also like humiliating her in front of her friends.
And just imagine like doing that in public.
Now, October 2023, Micah files for divorce.
And it seems like her life spirals into a living hell after this.
She's separated from her husband, but everything is falling apart.
One day Micah is in her car and she's pulling out of the parking lot and she hears this bizarre
popping noise.
She gets out and she sees metal protruding from her tire, a razor blade.
This is the second time that she's found a razor blade in her tire that week.
A Myrtle Beach police officer helps her change her tire so that she can drive to a dealership
to get a new tire.
The cop tells her, it kind of looks like a tire deflation device that you can buy online.
Meaning, someone might have purchased this with their own money for the purpose of deflating
her tire, aka, slashing her tire.
Micah drives to the local dealership and they tell her something even more alarming.
While we were under there, we found what looks like some sort of tracking device on your
car.
I think someone's following you.
They call the police and while the officer is standing there, Micah gets a phone call
from an unknown number.
JP.
She hands the phone to the officer and the officer tells JP, hey look, your wife does
not want anything to do with you.
You keep this up.
We might even be looking at a warrant.
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This is after she filed divorce.
For divorce.
Divorce in the process.
Yes.
Now that doesn't seem to do anything.
It doesn't seem like anybody listens to her.
The police don't really do anything.
He doesn't really do anything.
Because later, Micah would call the police again to state that the man she's avoiding
approached her at a gas station.
We have a video of this.
She's in her car and she's filming JP walking away.
And JP is saying this video is going to be up on Facebook in a few hours.
And Micah is saying, you're going to be in jail in a few hours.
Walk away.
Wait, why did he say that?
This video will be on Facebook.
I don't know.
It seems like he's threatening to humiliate her.
Oh, he's recording too, or?
Yes.
So he's recording her recording.
According to News 13, Micah reported four instances of finding GPS trackers placed in her
vehicle.
But in response, it seems that JP claims that his wife is mentally unstable.
He alleges that shortly after their wedding in 2017, she was diagnosed with bipolar
too, schizophrenia, and dependent personality disorder.
He claims the GPS trackers on her car are for her own safety.
He said as long as she takes her meds, she'd be fine.
But he has reason to believe that she's not taking her meds.
He alleges that Micah is doing all right until recently, a couple of women from the church
told her that mental illnesses can be preyed away, which allegedly led Micah to believe
that she doesn't need the meds anymore, that she would be cured through prayer.
He also alleges that she did not want to take her medication because it made her gain
weight and made her slur her speech.
That's why she allegedly starts spiraling.
Which I couldn't find any evidence of her spiraling.
And he felt the need to track her through her car for her own safety.
The police take no action.
They stated that because they're not divorced, their car is marital property.
So technically placing a GPS tracker on marital property, I mean, that's not illegal.
Which I don't know if there's different state laws.
I don't know if that is legally correct, but that's what they allegedly stated.
So they didn't do anything.
There is a Facebook group that Pastor JP was part of or allegedly a part of.
And the Facebook group is called Big Boobs and Nice Curves.
April 8th, a few weeks before Micah is found dead, she finds a picture of herself, a
topless photo of herself posted to that Facebook group.
She knows it's her, even though part of her breasts are blurred.
She knows it's her because whoever posted it tagged her old Facebook account.
And there was only one person other than her that would have this photo because she's
only sent it to one person.
JP, Pastor JP.
Micah reports it to the police, but they tell her since the photo was uploaded anonymously,
there's no way to prove who even posted it.
Additionally, they argue because she did send that picture to somebody.
They own the picture.
So they could technically post it.
And really?
Well, so they said they can post it the way they posted it because the nipple part of
the breast was blurred out, which means it does not meet the South Carolina code of law
for nudity.
Was her face in there?
I don't know.
No, there was nothing the police could do.
Micah gets an email a little while later from JP, allegedly, and it reads, I'm sorry for
putting a picture of you on the internet.
It was for less than one hour and 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 for me to do that.
It seems like Micah knew that she needed to leave this very toxic relationship.
She was already in the process of leaving, but she was terrified.
Micah had tried to leave before.
January 2023, a little over a year before her death.
She moved to Kansas to try and start fresh.
She does have family in Kansas from what I can tell.
She joined a new church.
She was making new friends and it seemed like she was just trying to turn over a new leaf.
But out of nowhere, she sent her sister a text message out of the blue that reads, hey,
good news.
I've been reconciled.
My husband's allowing me to come back home.
Praise God.
It was just very odd.
It didn't make any sense why Micah would go back and obviously if this were an abusive
relationship like it is speculated and alleged, there's a lot of reasons why victims go
back to their abuser.
And it's not because they weren't being abused and it's not because they want to be abused.
There's so many reasons and a lot of that has to do with gaslighting manipulation, emotional
control.
And I'm not saying that's the situation here, but here is some insight on why Micah might
go back.
It's alleged that JP was constantly guilt tripping her using religion against her.
He would try to gaslight her and manipulate her by bombarding her with text messages,
messaging her family if she tried to ignore him.
Apparently, he sent a message once after a fight that reads, all of this started because
of one bad decision a month ago in Colombia.
Context clues, it sounds like he cheated on her in Colombia.
Is what people are gathering, but again, we don't know.
If I could turn back time, I would.
He continues, we had the greatest marriage in the world up until that one wrong choice.
It can continue down that path or we can have an amazing marriage once again, the
choice is yours.
If you come home today, we can take the rest of the year, go to counseling every day,
go to Iceland, do whatever in order to get well.
I also desperately want a child with you.
I'm just scared of this.
This is the only reason I wouldn't have a child.
I'm scared of divorce or putting the child through things like this where you leave and
aren't willing to do whatever it takes.
It sounds like he messed up, but his answer is you need to forgive.
You need to choose to have a good marriage.
He's putting this all on her.
Yes, that's exactly the point.
It's up to you now.
It's your choice.
He also brings up the fact that he desperately wants to have a child with her, which I'm not
sure perhaps that could be a strong emotional trigger for her personally.
Then he ends the message with what I'm scared of putting the child through things like this
where you just leave.
He starts off, if my context clues are correct, by addressing an alleged affair.
In the length of one singular message, manages to make it her responsibility and her fault,
it also appears in my opinion that he uses religion against her.
There are messages where he texts Micah's sister.
Biblically, when your spouse needs you, nothing else should come before that.
This is like a print example of what gaslighting is.
That's exactly what it is.
Yeah.
Implying he needs Micah to come back and she's not coming back.
He also sends messages like, I have a list of how we can make our marriage amazing and
all will be okay.
For messages like five years ago, me and Micah, Mark and Kay, Dan and Erica all got married
in the same month.
Now all of us are going through a divorce in the same month.
If Micah actually cares, she will do exactly what God wants and do whatever it takes to make
it work.
One message reads, you win.
I will allow you to completely destroy me.
Continue to hurt me and you leave.
But I'm still begging for you back and do whatever it takes if you come home.
You'll never find another man who loves you enough to do whatever it takes after you
treat him the way you treat me.
According to an affidavit by Allison, JP's ex-wife, JP would even take his children's phone.
This is what she alleges in her sworn affidavit and text Micah, begging her to come back, making
her believe the kids need her.
The text reads from JP allegedly pretending to be his daughter, hey, when are you coming
home?
Dad just cries and prays really loud.
I wish I could come home from any face.
He says you can come anytime.
I told him I'm asking you about lashes.
He says different things to me.
I miss you guys very much.
I cry too.
He said sorry and it's your birthday.
Yep, I'm 30.
Just got my toes done at Daisies.
Life is going to move on but it'll be really weird for a bit.
Franny face.
So you're not coming home ever?
What can I tell Dad so that you can come home?
I prayed with Dad for you to come home.
Thank you for your prayers.
Inside, I know he knows what's right but we have to make choices that line up with that.
And this part, she says you're really smart and kind and pretty.
Like your mom, I will miss you.
So again, there have been allegations that like Micah and Allison have a tense relationship
and I'm sure at points they were tense but it seems like Micah and Allison do have
respect for each other.
Like the fact that she's saying that is just, I think that shows you a lot about Micah.
Allison says boys are dumb but I know Dad loves you a lot.
I've never seen him cry so much.
If he asks you what we talked about, tell him lashes.
I have to delete this.
I understand.
I'm praying to you without Dad that you'll come home.
He's crying so loud right now.
Can you please talk to him?
I promise he loves you.
He has your pictures all over your house.
He won't do anything with us.
He just keeps crying.
I'm sorry.
Last time I tried to come home and be peaceful.
He called the cops and said I was trying to break in after he was the one that asked me
to come.
My hands are tired.
He won't even let me in.
Can I ask him?
He has done dumb things but all he does is ask for you to come home and ask God to bring
you home.
He doesn't even get out of bed.
He just cries.
I really liked you with my Dad.
These were sent from JP's daughter's phone but according to Allison and a sworn affidavit,
they were all written by JP to guilt trip Micah into coming back home.
I wonder if Micah also has suspicions like, is this him or is this actually the kid?
But she may be rather be nice if it just incase, right?
Yeah.
Wow.
It does appear that JP always knew what to say and what to do to get Micah back.
Something he would likely know how to do considering he had been Micah's mentor since
she was 15 years old.
And that is why people heavily frowned upon even though they got married when she was
of age, that's why people heavily frown upon relationships like this.
Because the mental and emotional control that you have over someone when you start a dynamic
like this is just immeasurable in most situations.
There are even text messages from Micah's family to Allison, JP's ex-wife, where one of
the members of Micah's family texts, Ali, I'm begging you as a mother to mother, please
talk to me.
I promise no one will know that we spoke.
I'm concerned for the safety of my daughter.
I'm asking you begging you not to let JP know I've reached out to you.
He will just further isolate Micah from us.
Please.
Were they asking of Alice?
Allison, they just want help.
They don't know how to get Micah out.
Micah's dad noticed a shift in his daughter after the two got married.
But it seems like a situation again where I know people might be like, why didn't the
family do anything?
They're trying.
But what can you do even if they forcibly remove her and force her to stay away, it would
only push her closer to him.
There are allegations that he purposely isolates her from her own family.
Micah's dad said, as soon as they got married, her behavior went downhill fast.
She seemed to be more sad, more under control.
I believe he compressed her.
He just sucked the life right out of her and caused her to go downhill.
There were a few incidents prior to Micah's death where she decided she couldn't take
it anymore.
It leaves the house and comes to visit one of her siblings.
And JP apparently does not like that.
It stated that during one of those occasions of Micah being at a siblings house to get
away from the alleged abuse, JP finds out and texts.
Not Micah, but her sibling.
I'm on the way to your house.
Be there at 1255.
We will not let you inside.
We aren't doing none of that tonight.
That's fine.
You can call the cops.
I'm armed and ready.
Are.
JP said, I'm armed and ready.
They respond.
Armed, question mark, question mark.
Micah can fix all of this.
This doesn't help anything.
Threats and intimidation only make matters worse.
I don't care.
If you come here, the cops will be here waiting.
If you stay home, they don't need to get involved.
You can't make a threat about being armed and ready and come to my home in the middle
of the night.
It's not safe for anyone involved.
One by me, I don't care.
That night in November 2023, so a few months before Micah passes, Micah's sister places
a 911 call.
911, what's your emergency?
I need to report a non-emergency at this point.
Okay, what's going on?
My sister came here today to visit because her and her husband were having issues.
She came from Myrtle Beach.
She told him that she's going to be home on Tuesday and he is texting me at this point,
saying, I'll be at your house at 1255.
I'm armed and ready and I will keep you up all night.
I'm going to get her back.
I said, you're not welcome at my home.
There are no trespassing signs.
You cannot threaten weapons.
He has six guns that he just purchased recently and he's saying I'm armed and ready and
I'm coming to get her.
There are a lot of allegations of abuse against JP.
Now I do want to reiterate that none of these have been tried in the court of law.
Therefore, they are just allegations.
This is not a statement of fact and the full list can be found on justice for Micah.com
run by Micah's family.
But the list of allegations include isolating her from her family and friends.
Allegedly, JP would tell Micah that her family was not good for her and they were using her.
The family alleges JP would not let Micah sleep, which we have.
If this is true, we've heard of the seems very common in abusive relationships.
He would keep her up at night allegedly and pull the covers off of her.
Every time she started dosing off, they alleged that she started having to sleep in her
car at times just to get some peace and quiet.
It's alleged that JP hired PIs to follow and track Micah and placed multiple GPS tracking
devices on her car.
They alleged that JP would hack into her email, iCloud, Facebook account and would sometimes
message people pretending to be Micah and would text family members or church members admitting
to bad things like she's having intimate relations with teenagers in an attempt to disgrace
her name.
The allegations continue.
JP would tell Micah that she was lazy and mentally ill, that her breasts were too small, that her
family was ignorant and used her, that she would not be a good Christian woman if she questioned
him or did not submit him or did not keep all of his dark secrets.
It's alleged that JP forced her to submit to humiliating sexual acts that disgusted and
hurt her.
He would allegedly berate her for not being smart and quote falling for anything.
There are allegations that if Micah told JP she was going to expose his abuse, he would
berate her for not being a good Christian because only God can judge.
He also allegedly told her, which is not true, because judges are judges, but he also
allegedly told her that a beautiful wife must obey her husband if she does not she is
sinning.
It stated on the website that JP paid her less than minimum wage for more than her full
time employment at the church, removed her from all their bank accounts, but still made
her own car payments, her own insurance payments and pay for medical bills.
He would also allegedly randomly fire her for disobeying him and would only allow her
to have her job back if she agreed to some sexual acts or other lists of demands.
It said if Micah ever hinted at exposing his abuse, he would also threaten self exit and
even threaten her whole family with gun violence.
There are allegations that JP would punch holes into the walls of their home.
He kept guns and knives in the home, keeping Micah in a constant state of fear.
One big allegation reads, while she was hospitalized, JP demanded that she have sex with
him while she lay in the hospital bed.
JP forced her to perform sexual acts against her will and demanded she watch him in sexual
acts with others and forced her to sit still so others could touch her body against her
will.
JP told her and quote, preached on Sunday that if she did not submit to his every request
for sex in any manner he desired, then it was her fault if he got his needs fulfilled
by another woman or man.
The allegation list continues, JP slashed five of her car tires, JP would take her person
keys to prevent her from leaving the house.
One allegation reads, JP cheated on her many times, he sent nude pictures of himself
to another woman, he paid a woman from church $10,000 to destroy a sexually explicit video
of himself, he flirted with other women, he sexed it and dated other women, he paid for
sex from both women and men.
These are all the allegations.
And the last allegation reads, physical abuse without marks.
JP finger punched her in the throat, he held her up against the wall by her throat and
slapped drinks out of her hands and in public he snatched a plate of food from her and threw
it.
So these are all allegations that the family posted.
Yes.
And they probably gathered this from different sources.
Yes.
So allegedly, Micah had journals that she would keep that the family are allegedly in possession
of.
And I'm sure Micah would tell them, I don't know how deep she would tell them because
I'm sure she didn't want them to worry too much.
And that's typical of victims of abuse is you don't want to worry your family members.
But I mean, it's coming from the family.
I say allegations because again, they haven't been tried in the court of law, but it's not
like me trying to question a victim's story or anything.
Now the most terrifying one, leading up to her death, it stated that Micah would tell
her sister, quote, if I end up with a bullet in my head, it's not by me, it was JP.
And that would be the exact manner that she has found dead.
Allison, JP's ex-wife would even state, on one occasion while picking up our daughter,
I observed holes in their walls, hinges off the doors and pieces of paper taped to the
wall with negative affirmations about Micah.
I'm imagining, I don't know, I'm imagining post-its of just mean degrading things about
Micah randomly stuck around the house.
He would also take the podium during a Sunday service and almost elude to all the problems
Micah has under what feels like a thinly veiled disguises being a sermon.
JP had a thing for mentioning his wife's mental health struggles to people around him,
whether it's true or not, he would openly talk about what he thought of her mental health.
Then one day, he gets up there and he says, you know the thing about pride, pride and
mental illness?
I think mental illness is probably the most horrible thing that we can face in our bodies.
And pride is probably the most horrible thing we can face in our spirits.
And here's why.
When you're mentally ill, it's the one sickness you have that you don't know you're sick.
And you have to trust people around you because you're saying no, they're lying to me,
they're telling me I need medicine, I don't need medicine.
Because the thing's sick is your mind and your mind is what you need to realize that you're
sick, but you don't know you're sick because your mind tells you you're not sick and your
mind is the thing that's sick.
Again, I don't know, I haven't looked into statistics and I highly doubt that there
would be valid statistics that I could quote, but I know a lot of people who struggle with
their mental health and I don't think any one of us refuses to take medication.
I think most people who struggle with mental health want help.
JP would also give these sermons based on the stories of his friends that he had this
fellow pastor.
He would talk about how his pastor was going through a divorce that his wife just left one
day.
She was having an affair with one of his staff members.
So in a day, the pastor lost his wife and his good friend, the staff member, all at once,
which it sounds like he's alluding to the idea that Micah is doing the same thing to him.
When this is actually the exact thing that he did to his previous wife, Allison, which
like is this play about him right now?
Because not only did he do this to Allison, but he's likely doing the same thing to Micah
too.
It's alleged that he was cheating on her with multiple different women, but one of his
affairs, like I said, the one with Susie Skinner, seems like a pretty well-known accepted fact.
And then Micah gets admitted into a mental health facility.
She states that her husband had involuntarily committed her.
It's further alleged that during this time while she was admitted to the hospital, he took
her wallet and keys and her car and went through all of her personal belongings to get
rid of any and all things that allegedly would be incriminating towards him that she might
have been using and collecting to bring to the court.
After being released from the hospital, Micah tries to follow police report that her husband
stole her car, but a few things.
JPLeges to the police that his wife has mental health issues.
And usually during the holidays, she has these episodes where she will become manic,
is what he says, and spend excessive amounts of money recklessly.
He alleges that he took the car because he felt that she was going to sell it to fund
these shopping trips and he didn't want that to happen.
Now, outside note, he does make some crazy allegations.
He states that Micah bought a gun and he was scared that Micah was going to shoot him.
He had been begging all of her family and friends to help her, but according to JPLeges,
they refused.
So he had no choice but to use his power of attorney to hospitalize her is basically
what he alleges.
The police couldn't really do anything in this situation either.
They told Micah that technically because they're married and haven't divorced yet, the
car would be considered marital property, so he can't really steal property that he partly
owns.
Now, side note, a lot of Micah's family and friends will argue JPLeges claims and they
state that Micah did cut back on her meds.
She was on medication, but because it was allowed in her medical regimen that she could reduce
her two pills of lithium to one.
And the family demanded to see when Micah signed over power of attorney to JPLeges.
They allegedly kept pressing JPLeges to show them the papers that she signed, but when
he allegedly brought them to Micah's dad, they weren't signed or noterized.
Which if that's the case, that would mean that's not official documentation.
But the family believes that JPLeges would use these documents and somehow convince Micah
that they were very real and this is how he has power over her, complete and utter control
over her.
Later JPLeges would go up to do another sermon.
This is around the time that she's in the mental hospital.
And when was that?
Like years ago?
No.
2023?
Yes.
2023 or 2024.
Now, my wife went to the hospital, you know?
I looked at her phone and I counted over the past two years, 18 people who had texted
her and said, if you ever want to talk about your husband, you can talk to me and say
anything and I'll keep it confidential.
Why the heck does somebody want to hear what somebody else says about their spouse?
And 18 people texted her?
Yes.
Which I don't know why he is proudly saying this because that means 18 people feel like
your husband is alarming and I want to help you.
This guy is so good at spinning everything around into his favor.
Yeah, allegedly.
Well, it's an opinion.
Yeah, like he does.
Like everything you hear is like, he's just preaching about whatever he want to preach
about.
Yeah.
He literally frames it like this.
You're not even ready.
Why the heck does somebody want to hear what somebody else says about their spouse?
He's like, he doesn't think he's, no, there's no problem with him.
Everything is like, no, you're the problem.
You're the problem.
You're the problem.
He has a Southern accent and he does have that pastor cadence.
This very authoritative and then where you maybe even listening, you're like, okay, okay.
And then afterwards, you're like, what did he just say?
That doesn't even make sense.
He says, why the heck does somebody want to hear what somebody else says about their
spouse?
And two of those 18 were men.
And I thought, what?
And I was thinking when I read that, if somebody wants to call you and say bad things
about somebody else, that's a demon talking to you.
And the only way to respond is with the word of God.
And he keeps bringing God to all the time in his favor.
It's not a demon talking to you.
It's 18 concerned people that see red flags in JP and are worried for Micah.
He also states, last year, you know, my wife, they went to Africa and had a wonderful trip,
amazing trip.
I believe it was like a mission.
And she came back with the idea to start a school in Africa.
And six weeks ago, she goes in the hospital, gets out and just leaves.
She completely leaves me, leaves everything, drains the bank account and goes.
Guess what?
While you're out there talking bad about me, I'm building a school in Africa for over
100 kids to be able to be fed.
I'm doing the work.
The congregation starts clapping.
Listen, I'm hurting more than I've ever hurt before though.
So much pain you can't even imagine.
Last week, I have somebody that's going to donate a plane to our church.
For me to be able to fly from Florida to Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, for me to go
and preach at other churches because, listen, God gave me the idea that I don't care about
other churches.
I care about other pastors.
And for some reason, I can develop a sermon on tiving, again, giving money to the church.
On gossip, on strife, on supporting your pastor.
And I can say things to the church that will bless the pastor.
So now I'm being, I'm getting invitations to speak at other churches all over the
States around here and we get a free plane I can go around in.
So what you're talking about me on Facebook, look up in the sky and you'll see a solid
rock logo on a plane that's me going to Miami.
So he's talking this to the whole church.
Yeah.
About Micah.
Yeah.
And the whole congregation bursts into cheers.
Yeah.
So imagine like what kind of power imbalance this is and how was she feel to know that this
is what he's talking like publicly talking about her.
Yeah.
This is, again, I do want to mention this is not representative of Christianity.
I myself have a bit of religious trauma, but this is like so unhinged.
If you hear about a pastor talking about a private plane ever, I think it's time to switch
churches.
It's just even if it was donated or whatever, it's very alarming.
Micah posts a video on Facebook.
And if you just see these videos of him up on that stage preaching and then you see the
videos of Micah, it's so different.
The way they carry themselves, the words that they use, the type of message that they're
trying to spread.
Micah posts a video on Facebook.
So today my heart's a little heavy.
I've had a lot of women that have reached out to me about situations of abuse.
And I just want to tell you what a lot of people have told me lately and reminded me because
I think I forgot.
I mean, I knew, but I pushed it in the back of my head because just because of my situation.
But you are the bride of Christ before anybody else is bride.
Abuse is abuse and you are the bride of Christ.
Doesn't matter, your gender.
And my Bible says that he took all the abuse you could think of for you.
Jesus took it all for you so you don't have to stay in an abusive relationship, whether
that's sexual, whether that's somebody forcing you to take illegal drugs or alcohol abuse
or psychological abuse or physical abuse or making you think that this is all your
fault or your bad mom or bad wife or your bad husband or you're not giving it all when
you know you are.
God hates divorce, but why?
According to everybody I've asked in the scriptures that I've found, it's because it hurts people.
But does abuse hurt people?
People, how do you think God feels about that?
So I want to remind you like a bunch of people have reminded me, I'm God's bride first.
And even an earthly spouse who's a good spouse when they know their bride is being hurt,
just imagine what an earthly spouse does.
What do you think your heavenly spouse does when you're the bride of Christ and he sees
his bride going through abuse and hurt?
What do you think he thinks about that?
Male or female doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what gender you are, abuse is abuse.
You are the bride of Christ.
God hates divorce, but why?
The scriptures that I've found, it's because it hurts people.
But does abuse hurt people?
How do you think God feels about that?
It seems like the way He uses, in my opinion, the way He uses the Bible is very for Himself
to confirm His actions and beliefs and choices.
And the way Micah uses it, and I'm not religious, but she is trying to find wisdom and trying
to find strength in the Bible, which is how it should be used.
And she's trying to uplift people with her faith.
It's very different.
April 9th, Micah posted a picture of herself on Facebook and the caption reads,
when terrible, terrible, terrible things happen to you, y'all know what I'm talking about.
RPF, resting pieceface, hashtag still bless, hashtag God is good.
And that would be the last picture she ever posed.
Micah files for divorce October 2023.
The divorce is dismissed February 2024.
Micah is filing again, but this time for legal separation.
So it's very different from a divorce, but just like we're still legally married, we just
do not, we live separately.
But it does.
Why is it dismissed?
It's complicated.
But it does seem like, or at least it appears from the outside that Micah just wants to
be free.
She wants to move on with her life.
She even reaches out to Allison, JP's ex-wife, and leaves her a 47-second voicemail, where
she says, hey, Ali, it's Micah.
This is my new number.
Please don't give it to anybody.
But I just wanted to see who your counselor was to help you walk through your forgiveness
and stuff and keep your heart in the right place through all this mess.
I just don't want to lose myself in this, and I don't want to pursue anything out of
anger or vengeance.
I just want to be free and have peace and keep my soul right.
So if you just text me the name of a good counselor, you know I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
Bye.
Micah's separation papers were served to JP April 25, 2024.
April 27, 2024, she would be found dead in the water.
Micah's family have alleged that when they found out about Micah's death, it was from a text
message from JP.
The text allegedly reads, this is what happens when you try to encourage someone to divorce
the person they love and tell them that they don't need medicine and that they're not
ill when they are.
Good job, Francis family.
The family alleged that he starts texting about 100 people that night that she passed,
and people start blowing up Micah's family's phones.
And that's how they knew.
Side note, even the way he announces to the congregation that Micah has passed is very
bizarre and has gotten viral.
He doesn't seem to give time to Micah's family to let people know.
I mean, just the day after Micah is found, he goes up there and allegedly gives a full
sermon.
And at the end, he says, we're not going to do an alter call today instead of instead I'm
going to have you stand up and I'm going to make an announcement.
And after the announcement, I'm going to ask that you leave the church quietly and you
don't talk about the announcement here in the building.
Please, if you can, so you'll get here feet.
Before I make the announcement, I just want to say that my request is that you will all
continue to come to church and serve and give.
But for the little next while, I'm taking a little bit of a break.
I don't want to have to worry about the church.
My break could be a few days, a few weeks, I don't know.
But I got a call late last night, my wife passed away.
Yeah, it was self-induced and it was up in North Carolina and we're going to have a funeral
for her here next Sunday at 3 pm.
So yeah, I'm just kind of going on adrenaline right now.
You all pray for me and my kids and everybody and she was, y'all knew she wasn't mentally
well and she needed her medicine.
That was hard to get to her.
And so I'm sure there will be more details that come out, but just keep our family and
your thoughts and prayers.
It was such an emotionless, bizarre announcement.
Sunday, May 12th, 2024, JP holds a memorial for Micah at the Solid Rock Church.
Her family does not attend.
He says during the memorial service, while showing a slide show of Micah, it's just weird.
Netizens feel like he's complimenting his wife, but almost not.
He would say things like, she'd get a tourist to take our picture and I say, okay, thank
you.
And she said, oh, no, this isn't good.
Give it back to them.
And they do it again, you know.
But she loved, she's so creative.
She just, everything she did was creative.
What's the next picture?
Next picture?
She'd stop.
We'd be on the way to like a show or something and she'd stop.
I got to get a picture, I said, we're going to be late and she said, I don't care.
This paraphrasing, but again, just kind of weird, right?
He would also talk about how she loved tattoos, but he didn't.
She wanted to sky-dive and do all these dangerous things, but he had to think about his kids.
He also compliments her in ways that I just don't feel like are nice during a time to
celebrate somebody's life.
He would compliment her on how beautiful she was to look at, how she took care of him,
thrust up his Wonder Woman for him because he loves comic books, took care of the kids,
things of that nature.
He continues, I can't even if I had 10 hours today, that wouldn't be enough time to tell
you all the great things about her and what it was like to be in an intimate relationship
with her.
You know, I can still hear her voice and I can still picture just walking in the front
door and she was a great stepmom.
She in fact, she did so much work with the kids all the time.
She was the one that would always pick them up from school and get their food and she
takes my daughter all the time to get their nails done or go to Lululemon, all the special
girly things you know.
And I appreciated that from the very, very beginning.
Not once she ever complained about me having five kids and oh, this is my favorite video
of her.
And he plays a clip of her singing and he starts doing this odd combination where he's
laughing and crying.
He's like, I don't know how to describe it.
I can only play it for you.
It's just weird.
He says, imagine being married to that.
It was like that in our house all the time.
Y'all stand here if you and pass your handles going to close in prayer.
Side note, he does mention trying to resurrect her from the dead while visiting her body.
He also states, it really hadn't hit me, you know, as Christians, of course, we know
she's not here and she's in heaven and she's, you know, worshiping and enjoying and probably
hadn't even had time to look down here yet.
But I got to lay down next to her body and spend time with her body four times this
week and each time it still didn't hit me.
I thought she was going to wake up, you know, I even tried to raise her from the dead one
time this week.
And actually that morning, after that I went to the mall later and she bought me this
dog tag and the chain head broke so I went to the mall to get it fixed and I saw a female
about 20, 30 feet in front of me.
And she was wearing one of Micah's dresses and she had the same tattoo Micah has on her
arm and the exact same hair and it was just out of instinct.
I screamed Micah and the girl turned and it is one of her sisters.
I thought, I thought I raised her from the dead.
She's, you know, yeah.
Does he look sad?
No.
In my opinion, no.
He looks like he loves performing on stage.
Yeah.
I, if you told me, Stephanie, imagine a pastor who goes up on stage to hold the memorial for
his wife, even if it's a celebration of life, this is just not what I would expect at
all.
How many people was in that church?
Like how many people was in the seat?
As prior to all of this happening, it was said that he had two sermons on Sundays and
a total of around 700 people would come.
Yes.
Yeah, his church does well.
The church's assets are estimated to be close to $6 million.
I believe they hold real estate.
They have that plane that's almost half a million dollars.
Wow.
Yeah.
And it's a ledge that he controls most of the church funds.
It's not all.
Like it's his church.
He's powerful.
Yes.
And he's well known in the area.
Now it gets weirder.
Apparently, JP wrote Micah's abituary.
And it just, it was a weird read.
It's been condensed, but it reads, she and JP have been friends since 2009, married in 2017,
and spent almost every single day and night together.
She truly served Jesus and her husband with all her heart.
She would praise her husband after every church service telling him he was the best preacher
in the world, even if it wasn't true.
She also told him he was the funniest preacher in the world, even though that wasn't true
either.
Micah loved her family so much, which is kind of an odd abituary portion to begin with,
in my opinion, but it also fails to mention that Micah filed for legal separation and he
was just served papers 48 hours prior to her death.
It's just weird.
He would also later say in an interview with ABC15 that she was probably the greatest
wife anyone could ask for.
She was incredibly affirming.
We spent every night together for hours just talking and talking.
But Micah's family hearing this, they don't believe a single word of what he's saying.
They remember, before she died, she told them, if I end up with a bullet in my head, it's
not me, it's JP.
When JP was 19 years old, he did something very sinful.
He was indicted on charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
According to the Myrtle Beach Sun News, JP had a 19 year old girl twice with his car
while driving high speed.
It sounds pretty intentional, too.
Apparently, he was driving through a neighborhood where a lot of residents were out, sandbagging
their homes.
That means putting out bags of sand so their lawns don't get flooded during her cancees
end.
Allegedly, there was a ton of rose cloth, like road clothes, signs on the street, but
19 year old JP's is said to have put black tape on his license plate and started driving
his truck down the road.
This is when a 19 year old girl that's helping her family sandbag their house tells them
slow down.
And he hits her and continues to drive for about 300 feet.
He finally slows down to the point where she's able to safely roll off.
And then he just flees the scene.
She okay?
The 19 year old girl stated she suffered from severe painful and permanent injuries.
JP was arrested.
His bond was set at $5,000, but he was released the same day.
Eventually, he received a suspended sentence of four years, three years per patient, 500
hours of community service, and an order to pay court fees.
In 2022, he received a pardon for his conviction.
Now, Allison, JP's first wife, would state his affair with Micah was not the most alarming
thing during their relationship.
The cheating wasn't even the biggest issue.
The big issue was, JP confessed to Allison and even some of the other church members
that he was one, addicted to hiring sex workers, and two, he allegedly admitted to being
sexually inappropriate with several underage girls from their church.
He would later tell some of the church members that this is all because he himself was abused
sexually by his own dad.
The church decides to forgive him for illegal acts that he committed against other people,
which I don't know how you have that kind of jurisdiction, but they said, we will forgive
you as long as you undergo an extensive sexual addiction program.
He thought it was silly, and he did not follow through with it.
And apparently, this with the divorce of him divorcing Allison for Micah caused a massive
scandal in the church.
The church members start splitting off, leaving to new churches, branching off in their
own congregation.
And he allegedly told the remaining church elders that there's nothing they can do to him.
This is his church, and he's got 100% authority.
Allison said, after JP informed me that he had been inappropriate with minor female members
of our church and disclosed to me the identity of these girls, I immediately contacted them
to encourage them to come forward.
Although they each shared with me detailed accounts of what JP did to them, they were too
scared to make a police report or testify in court.
When I learned they were too fearful to report JP, I went to the police department for the
purpose of making a statement and requesting an investigation.
However, I was in essence told by police officers that nobody would believe me because JP
was a well-known pastor, and we were in the middle of a divorce.
Without the testimony of the victims, there was little else I could do to prove that JP
had done this and ensure that he was held accountable.
It seemed that at that moment Allison felt like, again, there was nothing she could do.
And she still has to co-parent with this guy.
Allison has asked the court to give her immediate full custody over their children after Micah's
death.
She states in that document, so this is very recent, that JP has exhibited increasingly
unstable behaviors, failed to provide a safe and stable environment for the kids, and
has exposed the children in incidents of domestic dispute, which have been traumatic for the kids
and just overall not in their best interest.
She states that JP's mental health has increasingly deteriorated.
It's very interesting because JP keeps yapping on about Micah's mental health, but a lot
of those close to him have major concerns for his.
I don't see many people coming out with major concerns that they had for Micah's mental
health.
Obviously, she was going through a lot with the whole separation from JP, but nothing
indicated, at least that the public knows about us of right now.
Any sort of ideations, dark thoughts, any sort of major depression, not even episodes
of manickness that he keeps describing, like nobody has come out to say, oh yeah, she
definitely had those.
I remember those.
Which side note, the ex-wife isn't the only one that's concerned about her mental health.
JP even stated in a sermon that he was having a horrible time that he himself is on 900
milligrams of lithium, and he's seeing a counselor every week and he can't even get
out of bed.
He said, quote, I have unforgiveness, hatred, and demons coming out of me.
Horrible, I'm in such a bad place.
He said this before Micah died.
Allison states sometimes he wouldn't even visit the kids because he would tell her he's
not mentally well enough to take care of the kids right now.
She said his behavior patterns were becoming increasingly erratic, irrational.
The filing is 11 pages long, and Allison's main points are he uses having joint custody
over the kids as a way to control and threaten Allison.
Based on information she's received, she believes JP makes a lot more than he says he
makes, and she would like to modify the child support agreement in place.
She states the kids don't feel comfortable under his care.
She said JP would preach sermons on the Sundays.
Our children were with him and present in the congregation, disparaging Micah, and
indicating she has mental health issues and eventually putting her in a mental hospital.
The children were subjected to JP calling Micah crazy one day, and then her being back
in their home at the next visit with their father assuring them that she was fine.
Allison also states that JP's mental health started deteriorating, or quote, spiraling
out of control after Susie's has been drowned in the pool.
She said he informed me he was getting into buying guns and shooting.
He had purchased a gun safe for his home, and as a convicted felon he is not allowed
to have weapons.
However, he managed to get a police chief from the church to assist with expunging his
record.
You could do that, like what?
Apparently, the police chief also gave him a special police badge that instead of police,
I guess it says pastor, so he, if he ever gets pulled over, he would likely flash it to
the cop, and most likely they'll let him go.
So this is all ex-wife, ex-wife is saying the police is involved in this.
That's huge.
For her to go against the police department.
Yeah.
That's a big deal.
Well, I don't know if she's going against them, because it's not going against, but
she's exposing this information, right?
Yes, but it's not, I don't think it's, it's not necessarily a crime to help expunge
someone's record.
You can apply to get it expunged at any point.
But to have a police chief involved in the process is definitely going to make it easier
in my opinion, right?
And so for her to state that in the affidavit is, I think, interesting, though.
Yes.
Now, side note, JP wasn't allowed to have his underage daughter over at night.
He was only allowed to have daytime visits with his underage daughter, which JP kept
telling Allison that he prayed she would change her heart about that choice.
One text message admitted into the affidavit by Allison reads, you can't have normal privileges
because you have committed terrible crimes of sexually molesting underage children.
Playing for my heart to change is absolute gaslighting.
There was a point in my life where I felt like I was drowning in debt.
Every time I thought I was making progress on my credit card debt, it was like my car
new.
I swear at one point I thought my car was sentient because every time I saved even
just a dollar, it would break down on me and I would need an expensive repair.
I thought I'd be stuck in this cycle forever where I would pay off my debt just a little
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Ultimately, Allison states in the filing that if they continue to share joint custody over
the children, she believes it will be detrimental to the safety of both her and the children
and she believes Micah.
She says Micah began calling me for advice on how to free herself from JP and for guidance
to counselors and people to assist her.
I prayed with Micah and did all that I could to provide her with sound advice and guidance.
Micah shared information with me about the things that my children were exposed to while
in the care of JP and warned me that my children were in danger while in his care.
I have tremendous concern about the safety and welfare of our children while in the care
of JP, especially now that Micah is no longer present.
I was married to JP for 16 years, although my story and what I lived through with JP is
different in some ways.
Many of the details shared with me by Micah are so similar to my own experiences with JP.
I know she was being truthful.
Another part of the affidavit from Allison states that she does not want her children to
be around JP's father in any capacity, which is very interesting to state.
This is their grandfather, but JP's father has been slightly vocal about this case.
He sent a 900-word document to the daily mail alleging that Micah's mental health problems
were severe, but it's all being covered up to protect her memory.
He alleges that her family is in denial of such mental health issues and that she is
quote, a very, very, very sick woman, which I feel like you can't really throw stones
without checking the foundation of your house first.
Reginald Miller, JP's father, was once charged with labor fraud, visa fraud, and failure
to pay minimum wage.
He was accused of turning his Bible college into a forced work camp.
He served 15 months in prison after his arrest.
Additionally, he has very questionable past allegations where he has been accused of making
sexual advances towards men whose wives were in Bible study.
When he was asked later about the claims against him, he just said allegations are allegations.
Okay, same goes here.
Alligations are allegations.
We can talk about it.
Speaking of, there are allegations or theories that JP was stealing donations intended for
the church and its charitable activities, and he was taking them for personal use allegedly,
but I don't know.
There are also other allegations that he just ran his church very peculiarly.
He has a very, he really likes tithing.
I heard it come up a lot in his sermons, meaning giving a percentage of your income to the
church.
Some former members alleged that if you tried to leave the church or if you disagreed with
him, he would harass you, spread rumors about you, and make you a social pariah amongst
all the other local churches in the area.
This is what's alleged.
Again, I've never been part of his church so I can't tell you definitively.
Then after Micah's death, a series of Facebook posts start circulating.
All people who claim to have connection to Micah and JP start sharing their stories.
These Facebook posts are other individuals and their thoughts and feelings and versions
of events, so we cannot verify them, obviously.
But they're real people, right?
Yes.
One friend that spoke to Micah the night that she passed, or night before she passed, said
on Facebook, I will not sit here and pretend that I know exactly what happened, but I know
a lot.
And while aware in the past that Micah has had mental health issues, and I witnessed her
struggle firsthand.
The Micah I witnessed last month, I was seeing a grown woman trying to break the chains
of an abusive marriage.
When I talked to Micah last, she was making plans, moving forward and trusting God.
Her faith was her shield.
She'd reconnected with people that she had been isolating from, myself included.
She was sorting out her new normal.
She was making plans to get a haircut.
She was a woman making plans to live.
I was so overwhelmed seeing people on the news last night trying to minimize Micah by
painting her as mentally ill.
Another person close to the couple posts on Facebook, a statement that reads, what I'm
about to say is my departed opinion.
However, some stuff will be things that I've personally experienced.
I've said it from the beginning, JP doesn't have the guts to kill anyone.
If you truly know him, then you know that his biggest game is stalking, manipulating,
and brainwashing.
He is the one who will hand you the gun and dare you to do it, or the one to place it on
the counter when he knows that they are out there lowest.
Just listening examples here, I'm not saying he did or didn't have something to do with
it at some level, or that he pushed this sweet soul to the point that she felt like she
had no other option.
It's heartbreaking.
It's nauseating.
I can promise you this, JP is smiling.
He is thinking that he is not at fault.
He is thinking that this will blow over and that he will build his new church and he will
have another brainwash congregation to follow him.
He is a narcissist at its finest.
Don't stop speaking out.
He will make someone's life a living hell until they feel that they can't escape it.
I've personally witnessed many situations in over 30 years that I've known him.
I've stood up to him in his lies and we've had multiple disagreements.
I've always said that JP was scared of me because he doesn't know how to handle a woman
or a man who calls him out on his shit, who doesn't fall for his manipulating techniques.
He's a weak man with a brilliant ability to manipulate and brainwash.
A woman claiming to be JP's ex posted on Facebook.
Again, this is a claim and allegation.
But she posted, I am an ex of John Paul Miller.
I was 14 years old when he was 19 years old.
I was a child at the time but I didn't see an issue but at 19 obviously he should have.
We dated for a year and I found out that he was dating his first wife, Allison, while
we were together.
All unbeknownst to her.
She later found out and lied about it as he continued to do about the multitude of infidelities
the remainder of their marriage.
This has been hard to watch and keep quiet about but I feel like it's time to be transparent.
She states in her post that JP reached out to her after Allison left him when she found
out that he was cheating with Micah and she said he was not remorseful of his actions.
He was upset over the amount of people that left the church and that hurt him financially.
Soon after another woman comes forward, a woman with text message conversations with JP.
She's actually not a member of the church or a friend of theirs.
He works for a restaurant that JP visited February 23rd, about two months prior to Micah's
death.
He left almost a 50% tip and wrote his number underneath the little signature portion
with a big smiley face and the text message reads allegedly from JP.
I think I need a bikini pick of you.
She has no idea he's married.
She just responds, I don't know if I really have any.
Come on.
Okay, no bikini then, winky face, meaning just naked then.
She responds, I think most of the time when I'm in a swimsuit, I'm also in a mermaid
tail.
It seems like maybe she had a side gig of being like a mermaid.
I'm not sure.
Are any of my picks going through?
JP asks, nope.
Hmm, do you have one with just the mermaid tail, smiley face?
Ha ha, I don't think I do actually.
Give me something, I'm still trying to send picks.
She finally sends a picture.
She writes, hmm, okay, this one isn't bad but that's all you're getting right now, shy
face.
Wow.
Super hot, I love it.
Thank you so much.
She asks him, what do you do?
And he says, well, da da da da, da da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
question mark, LOL.
I'm a senior pastor of Solid Rocket Market Common and I'm headmaster and founder of Faith
First Academy.
I'm going through a divorce due to my soon to be ex-wife.
She is bipolar and schizophrenic and left town after she got out of the mental hospital
for the seventh time, fronny face.
I'm also owner of the crocodile rocks, which is like a piano bar at Broadway at the beach.
Yeah.
She's not talking to him after that.
April 30th, 2024, three days after Micah's death, another police report is filed.
JP calls the police to state that the leasing agent would not let him into his deceased wife's
apartment to collect her things.
Now, why would he want to go there?
Micah's family believed that JP was there so that he could get her diaries and journals
and potentially any other documents that could incriminate him.
According to an affidavit later filed by Micah's family, they state, Micah is gathering
and sorting evidence that she had to bring to an attorney for filing divorce, pertaining
to his abuse, character, and his affairs, and associates that he paid off or blackmailed.
Those documents, emails, files, etc. were removed from her phone, personal laptop, vehicle,
and purse and never recovered.
Ultimately, the police have ruled Micah's death as self-exit.
For a few reasons, the medical examiner does not believe there was any evidence of anything
indicating foul play on her body.
There is no reason for the authorities to believe that she was not alone at the state
park when she died.
And the one person who many believe has a motive, JP, has an alibi.
He was seen in a sporting event about three hours away.
Investigators said that they located multiple eyewitnesses who confirmed the pastor was
at the event all weekend.
His truck was seen on route from Charleston and back.
But likely one of the most heavily weighed aspects is the 911 call.
There was a call placed from the park.
911, what's the address of your emergency?
Hi, are you able to trace the location of my phone?
Let me see.
You don't know where you're at?
At a national park, I have my location on.
I think my phone, find my iPhone is on?
Lumber River State Park?
Yeah, that's where I am.
I'm about to kill myself and I just want my family to know where to find me.
Okay, ma'am, just listen to what I'm saying.
Okay, let me make sure I go, I get the exact location where you are just one minute.
I was thinking, now, 911, what's the address of your emergency?
Hi, are you able to trace the location of my phone?
You don't know where you're at?
At a national park, I'm about to kill myself.
That is what my family didn't know where to find me.
That 911 call was placed before she passed.
But still, a lot of people, including many netizens, feel like there's just so much more
to the story.
On solidrockmb.com, which I'm assuming is the church website, there is a little about
me section where JP writes a bit about him as the pastor.
He writes, we, your pastors are very transparent.
We are the exact same on the platform of solidrock as we are at home behind closed doors.
What you see is what you get.
We refuse to wear masks and play games.
Rather, we keep everything out in the open.
The whole truth is on display.
JP has filed to seal all probate court documents involving his late wife, Micah.
Which again, requesting to seal those records is not an admission of guilt.
But Micah's family, the Francis family, have filed a petition to become the administrators
of Micah's estate.
There were concerns that JP was trying to manipulate his assets during the separation
with Micah.
Allegedly, Micah said that he was moving around assets so that in the event of a divorce,
Micah would have nothing or a lot less of what she was entitled to.
For example, their house that they lived in would likely be considered marital property.
We end up selling the property to the church.
Which Micah does not have control over the church's finances.
And technically, it's not his finances because it churches are nonprofits.
But JP.
What kind of selling your house to the church?
Yeah.
JP is also said to have full control over their bank accounts.
I don't know if that's true, right?
But the family wrote in the complaint, defendant Miller, supposed sale of the marital home
to the church is believed to have been an attempt to defraud and to private wife from
her fair share of the marital estate.
It's also alleged that other investments were transferred to a son's name around this
time.
Which side note, Micah's family also requested to posthumously change her name, drop her
maiden name or drop Miller or go back to her maiden name, I mean.
And JP has pushed back on this in court.
Which is so odd to me because they were already in the process of separating.
She was filing for a legal separation.
Why would he need her to still be Micah Miller?
It's such an odd thing to fight about.
A lot of netizens think it's just ego.
He just seems to be a very odd character, I think, is the nicest way to say it.
Now side note, according to Allison, JP's ex-wife, JP told the kids his plan was to quote,
sue everyone and become a millionaire.
Everyone has?
Social media people who talk about the case, allegedly.
There are rumors online that he is hiring a PI or somebody like a PI to likely run background
checks on people who talk about him on social media, I guess, in ways that he does not
like.
So that's interesting.
That's just a rumor as of right now, but very interesting.
JP and his attorney have denied any and all involvement in Micah's death as well as
the abuse allegations.
The attorney made a statement, the just being following the untimely death of Micah Miller.
Unfounded rumors and false accusations began circulating on social media and in various
media news outlets, suggesting past or millers involvement in her demise.
This created a buzz causing local and national media outlets to begin proliferating these
falsehoods on a mammoth proportion.
Our client refutes any report that suggests he ever abused his wife.
It has come to light that Micah Miller struggled with mental illness.
Specifically, bipolar disorder, which when not properly managed led to paranoid episodes
and self-destructive behavior.
Again, Micah suffered from mental illness and some reports made by her in the recent past
are nonsensical.
The statement also has the lengthy portion, basically saying that there are a ton of people
on social media defaming JP and they will take legal action against those people, etc.
But what theories are they talking about?
What accusations?
Welcome to the theory portion of the video where just like the rest of the video, I want
to emphasize this is not a statement of fact.
These are collections of sentiments, opinions, allegations and questions that have been posted
publicly online and I've just compiled them for you to absorb the content quickly.
Nobody, nobody at all, at least as of right now, as of filming is even considered a suspect
in this case, meaning nobody is guilty of anything.
So keep that in mind and always consider that the internet likes to do what the internet
likes to do, which is theorize and speculate, which brings us to our very first theory.
The theory that Micah self-exited, which is a theory shared both by law enforcement as
well as some netizens at this time.
This is her official manner of death according to the ME and the police.
Then plus a handful of netizens who have given JP the benefit of the doubt as well as JP
himself have settled with this theory.
This argued the fishermen at the park that day heard only one gunshot go off.
The pawn shop where Micah bought the gun had CCTV footage of the entire transaction, she
was alone and did not seem to be forced to be there.
The police found the receipt for the gun for the sale in her car.
On paper, Micah allegedly had a history of mental illness and according to some members
of solid rock church, they state they believe Micah had previous failed attempts at self-exiting.
The only person that might have a motive to do something like this is usually in most
cases the husband, but multiple eyewitnesses have come forward and have cooperated JP's
alibi that Saturday at a sporting event.
JP's truck was caught and time stamped by traffic cameras two hours and a whole stay
away at the time of Micah's death.
In Micah's phone, there were directions and multiple recent searches to the pawn shop
where she bought the gun and to the park where her body was found.
She bought the gun the same day.
The one piece of the puzzle, well I guess it's not really a puzzle to them, is basically
a shot and done case for people who believe this theory.
The one detail they always cite is the 911 call.
Micah called 911 and said she was going to self exit that day at 2.54pm.
Police were dispatched to her location at 3.03pm.
If Micah did not self exit and there is foul play involved, wouldn't her alleged killers
need more than nine minutes to flee the scene?
Whether it be in their best interest at the police don't arrive at the scene until they're
long gone.
Not to mention, the netizens who support this theory claim Micah sounded very calm in
the 911 call.
That it would be virtually impossible to force someone to make a 911 call like that against
their will.
However, there are a lot of netizens that dispute the theory's main points.
Disputing through arguments and anecdotal evidence or speculations, again nothing has been
shot and done in the court of law, but netizens have argued back against this theory by alleging
if the fisherman heard only one shot, that would be one thing.
But the France's family and a park ranger have reported that they've found multiple shell
casings at the scene.
Could it just be another case of faulty eyewitnesses, faulty memories or even planted memories?
Micah's family stated that there were multiple bullets found at the scene and later it would
be confirmed that there were two-spent shell casings found near her and a live bullet,
meaning two spent, they've gone through the fire twice, which is not very common from
what I can tell anecdotally of self-execases.
Netizens agree that it looks like Micah goes inside and buys the gun at the pawn shop
from the CCTV footage that is released.
But a lot of people are questioning the CCTV footage.
In certain frames of the CCTV footage, Micah has this hand tattoo of a cross, a pretty
big cross on her hand.
It's missing in the CCTV footage.
So is her necklace that she was seen wearing the day of her death?
People think it's weird.
Wait, have you seen the footage?
Yes, I don't see the tattoo.
Is it very blurry footage or?
It did, to me it doesn't see, because even if it's blurry, would you not still have a blurred
outline?
So they're saying this footage is questionable.
Yeah, there's no tattoo.
I don't, it appears there's no tattoo.
Remember Micah's 911 call where she said she wants her family to know where to find
her?
She made the call and then walked from her car and the parking lot where her black
Honda was found into the trails of the forest and off the beaten path.
Which some netizens feel defeats the purpose of making that call to begin with?
Sure, Micah had a history of mental illness, but that is according to JP.
Her schizophrenia, Mania playing chess with people who aren't there.
That's what JP alleges, right?
That's all what he alleges.
In an interview with Anna Francis, Micah's sister, Anna claims that JP was actually the
one who had been on schizophrenia medication for the past 20 years.
She also states that at the end of Micah's involuntarily held at the hospital that the
doctor, quote, at the end of that weekend where Micah was examined.
And I'm pretty sure Faith Green apologized for it and said that she should have never
been there.
Everyone cleared her.
She's completely sane.
End quote.
That's what the sister said.
Netizens who don't believe Micah's self-exited also cite that, sure, perhaps the chances
of someone with past attempts of self-exit dying from self-exit are higher, but that doesn't
mean the chances of them being murdered are lower.
Especially in cases of speculated DV.
If anything, that increases her chances of being murdered.
And those netizens who aren't fully convinced that JP had nothing to do with it, that Micah
did not self-exit, they bring up the netizen theory two and three, which is that JP killed
Micah or that JP was the sole driving force pushing her towards her death.
Again, another quick super brief legal disclaimer.
At the date of this recording, there have been zero official suspects, nor persons of interest
named by the authorities.
Micah's death at the date of this recording has still officially been ruled a self-exit
by the police and the medical examiner.
The following details, little facts that have been pointed out or inconsistencies are
all netizens' speculation and the source notes will be in the description.
And all of this is public information available online.
And again, just to cover all the basis, the police do not believe JP Miller was involved
with the death of his wife.
A Legend Theory Number Two.
Pastor JP allegedly killed his wife and using his authority within the church, he spun
his own little narrative to cover up any traces of foul play.
Netizens believe that JP has a motive to want to be single or to be free.
And that motive, they allege, is Susie Skinner.
Remember his alleged girlfriend and affair?
Susie Skinner's husband died in the pool.
Susie and JP were spotted at a sushi bar just four days after Micah died.
Two seats down a local recognized JP from the news and snapped the two pictures for
a proof.
The two were having drinks and a bite to eat only four days after his wife died.
Susie Skinner was also allegedly spotted on June 14, 2024 with a tote bag slung over
her shoulder walking towards JP Miller's alleged truck getting in and the two of them
driving off.
Not only that, but netizens have noticed that the truck is parked on the street and not
in the driveway.
So they alleged, you know, it's kind of interesting if they weren't having an affair.
If these are really two church members just trying to find comfort in each other, why
would he park not on the driveway?
Wait, who's driveway?
Susie Skinner's driveway.
He didn't park in the driveway.
He parked on the street.
It seemed like if they're not having an affair, why would he park on the street?
Why can't he just park in her driveway and pick her up?
Okay.
He doesn't want to be seen.
He's picking her up.
Yes, which is, you only do that when something is weird, no?
Typically.
According to JP's ex-wife, Affa David, two weeks before Chris Skinner's death on September
6th, remember Chris confronted JP telling him to stay away from his wife, Susie?
The Affa David also states, quote, it is chilling to know that the spouses of both Susie
and JP are now dead due to tragic events.
Netizens are also questioning JP's alleged alibi.
The police posted pictures of JP's truck in South Carolina as proof of his alibi on the
day that Micah died.
David said JP was accompanied while traveling in the truck to South Carolina, so he's
not alone.
Netizens wonder though, all the pictures the police provided showed the back of JP's
truck.
You can't see who's in the driver's seat, let alone in the passenger seat.
The window tint is so dark, you can't even see a silhouette of anyone in the truck.
And again, there have been multiple witnesses that have come forward to confirm JP's alibi,
but this is just netizen opinion.
Some netizens thought processes continue.
Sure, JP's car has an alibi.
But to some netizens, they feel like they haven't seen the proof that he was or wasn't
in that car.
What if he was driving a separate car that day?
Netizen's also questioned the police's report stating that they had eyewitnesses who
corroborated JP's alibi, because doesn't JP have connections to the police, which is
a very crazy allegation to make collusion with the police, but netizens say, I mean, he
does have friends in the police department, not saying the police are lying, not saying
that they're doing anything weird, but he does have friends.
I mean, remember that friend that gave him the pastor badge, the one that helped expunge
his record?
Some netizens question, hypothetically speaking, of course, if JP was able to successfully
be pardoned allegedly with the help of a police chief, what else can he get away with?
Then another point made by netizens online is Micah Hadan necklace that she was seen wearing
the day she died.
Later JP was wearing it in an interview with the local news and people wondered how to
get the necklace if they were separated, people thought it was strange.
JP would claim that they gave it to her after he went to see her body and he said he immediately
put it on to feel closer to her because she loved that necklace.
Other people argue, doesn't that seem like something a narcissist would do when they had
a hand in your death?
It just feels very gross.
Is what people say.
Another reason that some netizens believe Micah did not self-exit is, she did not leave
a letter.
She was a meticulous diary keeper.
She loved journaling.
She had started to keep a record of all the alleged abuse she was going through.
Micah always loved Bible study where not only do you read scripture but you interact with
it.
You often write or discuss your interpretations.
She committed things onto paper, typically in her daily life.
So why would a self-exit letter be any different?
Why would she not have one?
Which obviously for self-exits, there is a lot of impulse involved.
That is a factor to be considered, typically.
But some netizens just said it just feels so out of character.
But of course, there are also netizens who argue the points made by this theory.
They argue, the biggest point or contention though, is that netizens who disagree with
the theory is the CCTV footage of Micah buying the gun.
They say, CCTV footage is notoriously low resolution.
So the tattoo that is supposed to be on her hand is probably just too small for the
pixels to pick up.
It was, you know, it's like a rather thin cross they said.
Same goes for the disappearing necklace.
The pixels are too small to be picked up.
You also need a valid state ID to purchase a weapon in South Carolina, meaning there's
the world's limit chance that that footage was edited to look like Micah or that somehow
a body double went in.
The chances that the camera's resolution is bad is far more plausible.
So with that, a sub theory develops.
The theory, not facts, pure internet speculation, is that JP killed Micah but he hired someone
else to pull the trigger and make it appear as a self exit.
Speculators say it would explain all of the confusions surrounding JP's alibi because
with a murder for higher plot, it doesn't matter where he is.
It would also explain a way parts of the 911 call because if it was somebody that was hired
to do a hit allegedly, hypothetically, then it wouldn't really matter if they were just
in the woods at the time that she died.
They have no connection.
They were kayakers.
They were fishermen around.
If they have no connection to Micah, perhaps the police wouldn't even look into it.
It's a state park.
The allegation is that somebody had threatened Micah, forced her to buy the gun, forced her
to call 911 and say that she was going to self exit.
But that 911 call is a huge part of the case.
People say that Micah is just way too calm, that there's no way someone could have forced
her to fake a self exit call like that.
Well, Micah's father, Michael, did an interview with Lon crime where he agreed.
Michael was way too calm.
In fact, she was talking so slow, he even wondered if it was her.
Michael suggested that his daughter's voice was created using AI.
So this sounds really far-fetched, right?
It sounds like a sci-fi movie.
But I personally guarantee you that if not now, one day, we're going to start seeing AI
interfering with investigations and being part of cases more and more often.
Again, I'm not saying there's proof to that theory or trying to convince you of anything
in today's case.
There's no proof that AI was involved, actually.
But I personally believe, in my opinion, that if AI can fake those kidnapping calls that
are made to families by scam artists, then eventually, if not already, then one day,
AI will be present in more crimes.
Another detail that Netizens refer to in regards to their belief that Micah was murdered
are the alleged bruises in self-defense wounds on her body.
Micah's body was cremated.
Yeah, that's a whole thing, too.
We're going to get into.
But her family did go and see her body, and they stated that she had bruising on her wrist.
It almost...
Some Netizens speculate that perhaps it looked like someone forced her wrist to pull
the trigger, like, forced the gun up to her own head.
But I don't know.
I do know that the Emmy is saying that could have happened after her death during pulling
her out of the lake.
Some people argue that and say that you actually can...
It's very hard to form bruises when you're dead because your blood is no longer circulating.
Now the family has also claimed that JP made the parents approve cremation in order to see
Micah's body.
Anna Frances said, in order to see her, our parents...
Per John Paul, JP, our parents had to sign that she had to be cremated.
So either sign it and do it easily so you can see her or you just put up a fight and you
don't get to see her anyway.
That's really weird.
Yeah, he will later refute this.
It's a whole thing.
But the family said that they did take photos and videos of her body and of what they believe
were self-defense wounds.
And of course the pictures were submitted to the proper authorities and are currently
being kept private as the investigation continues.
As of June 25th, 2014, the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner released
a preliminary summary of the circumstances surrounding Micah Miller's death.
Netizens that believe Micah did not self-exit.
In their personal opinions, they do not believe law enforcement findings and they believe
this new release actually supports their claims.
They point to exhibit A, which reads, law enforcement recovered two spent casings and one
live round on the bank of the river.
These are the casings that Michael Francis had alluded to in his interview with Lawn
Crime.
And now we have the M.E.'s report that says that there were two spent, meaning two separate
rounds of ammunition that were fired.
And only one live round was found, meaning one un-fired bullet was found as well.
Two things about this.
Like I said, netizens argue that people who died by self-exit through fire are almost exclusively
fire one shot, which is the fatal shot.
The idea that a practice shot was fired to the netizens, feel doubtful.
They believe the blowback and the sound of a round being fired is almost always enough
to rattle the person, especially when they're firing with a 9-millimeter gun, which is what
she had.
It is no small dainty pea shooter.
This is a common choice for officers in law enforcement as they go to handgun.
And number two, right after the M.E. report states two spent and one live bullets, the
document says.
This was found prone, submerged in river, beside tree limbs, about 100 feet from the
casings.
People, netizens have argued that 100 feet is about the length of five giraffes stacked
up on top of each other, or three yellow school buses.
Roughly two thirds, the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Now, there could be completely reasonable explanations for this detail, and this detail in itself
is not alarming.
But some netizens wonder if the gun was fired on the river bank, where the shell casings
are found.
Like a shot herself, how did her body end up 100 feet away from the casings?
Now obviously, people are going to state, oh, the current of the river.
But netizens that have been to this park recently, and they've seen videos, the water seems
almost completely still.
And the water is incredibly shallow.
They wonder, what are the chances that her body floated 100 feet away when there's almost
no current?
And her body was found really quickly, no?
Yes.
Again, this is not a fact.
It's an opinion and question posed by netizens.
And one final theory from our research, the most popular theory is the theory that Micah
did die by self-exit.
But that doesn't make JP Miller less guilty of killing her.
One that isn't summed up this theory in a comment on Reddit.
When you have been groomed since 14 or 15 years old, when you have reached out to the police
for help and no one is helping, your church is not helping you when your spouse brainwashed
you while grooming you as a child, and then makes you feel like you're crazy, and he puts
you in an institution, he steals your car and puts a tracker on your car.
You get to a point where there feels like there's no way out.
It is not a woman's fault if she ends it all.
When it was someone else that pulled the metaphorical trigger.
Netizens also cite that the chances of the whole thing being a conspiracy with Hitman
and a premeditated plot are highly unlikely compared to the chances that she did die by
self-exit.
But that JP should still be held accountable in some way.
In most cases like this, I assume JP would release a statement through his attorney like
he did and retreat to try not to stir stuff up and lay low.
But no, he starts posting on to TikTok.
These full length videos are going to be linked in the show notes, but they have been
condensed for length here.
In one video, JP starts off by saying, greetings everybody.
I'm here to let you know that my silence is nothing more than wisdom and self-control,
so we can win the war that is up ahead.
I look forward to presenting over 350 pieces of proof on what Micah thinks about her family
and what Micah thinks about her lawyer and the things her lawyer is saying and the things
that her family is saying.
And Charlotte and all these other people that are saying things.
People forget that Micah corresponded with me more than anybody else on planet Earth.
I know her heart and I have her text messages and we're going to disprove all the lies
that are out there.
There's so many lies.
It seems like everybody thinks the world is flat, but when I get to court, I'm going
to show you that the world is round.
And you're going to be shocked at some of the things that you see that Micah says and
we're going to find out exactly who is responsible for my wife's death.
And Micah will have justice when it's all said and done and I'm going to make sure of
it.
So thank you so much.
I look forward to seeing you.
God bless.
And another TikTok he addresses the fact that he preached the day after his wife passed
and the announcement he made of his wife's passing.
And he basically says in the beginning of the TikTok that Micah allegedly wanted a very
thick wedding band tattooed on her wedding finger.
He says so that when she was working out or when we were on vacation, when she didn't
have a ring, she let everybody know that she was still married.
That is not something that someone who is being abused does.
Which I don't think again is factually correct, but that could be my cluttered brain.
So the reason I preached the night after she passed the night before that at midnight,
I had five people in my house telling me not to preach.
I would be crazy for doing it.
I didn't listen.
It's because I first didn't believe it.
I had spent the past three and a half months doing everything I could to keep her alive.
My goal every single day to find somebody to some way get her, get her her medicine
because I told them that she was going to commit suicide if she didn't get her lithium.
And I went to her her pastors, counselors, doctors, policemen, judges, friends, family, roommates,
everybody you could possibly think of and nobody believed me.
So to get that call that night that had happened, I'm sure you can imagine what a failure
I felt as well as this just can't be true.
It became my worst nightmare.
There's no way.
And so I thought maybe the family was playing a trick on me or something.
The other side of it was I thought if it is true, I don't want to deal with it.
I don't want to do anything.
I want to just keep living my life as if it never happened because I was not ready to
believe that it happened.
So the next day I preached.
I was like a fool.
And then I made my announcement for everybody to be quiet and leave because like a moment
of silence, like you do in respect.
I did it like I didn't want anyone to be talking about suicide or mental illness or asking
questions or I just want them to leave and go talk to Jesus about it and then talk to
me at some later date.
I was not prepared to deal with any of it at all.
I'm sure you cannot imagine what it's like to be trying your best to keep somebody alive
and then find out they passed and then how you handle yourself in the next 2448 hours.
I don't think there's a manual on that.
So if that offends anybody, I apologize, but I did the best that I could with what I had.
And God bless.
And there are allegations in his series of TikToks, include he states that someone is making
fun of him because he sniffs, but he says it's a tick that he's had since he was a kid,
which I don't know.
I'm just saying he says a lot of things, okay?
He's yaps a lot.
He really is a talker.
Yeah.
And just like everything becomes such a...
What was me looking me?
I'm so good.
Everybody's evil.
He said the whole case is actually about mental health awareness.
He alleges and claims that Michael was diagnosed with bipolar two disorders, schizophrenia,
dependent personality disorder.
He claims that she had several other diagnosis by different doctors at different times all
throughout the last seven years.
He continues the two diagnosis that stayed every single year where schizophrenia and bipolar
two.
He states bipolar two is when you're super high and you want to give away a thousand dollars.
The low is when you want to die.
He said that she had ups and downs and it was a constant struggle but they were getting
through it.
He further alleges and he makes them wild claims about her mental health, which again,
I can't say for certain if it's not true, but I imagine if her symptoms were this bad
that a lot of people would speak up and say so or that she would have done other things
that people would have stories about to share.
Others must have noticed.
He claims in alleges that Michael would play chess with people that were not there without
a chess board.
Like imaginary people, imaginary chess board.
She would hear voices or talk to people who were not there.
She would forget who she was, forget that she was his wife, forget who he was, forget
that he was her husband.
Sometimes she would forget her family.
He claims that she was, quote, deep into the schizophrenia and was delusional and accusing
him of certain things like slashing her tires or sending a naked picture or stalking her
or things like that that he claims he didn't do.
Which what about the email that he allegedly sent her, apologize.
Anyway, he claims he found an apple air tag in his car in the truck that week and he saw
her popping up everywhere he went around the week.
Remember that gas station video where she's like walk away.
He's like recording her and he tells her and she's like, no, she followed me to the gas
station.
Like a little spy.
He says mental illness is sad.
It's sad.
But we manage to always find lightheartedness in life and spite of it and we always got
through it.
I would do things like sometimes I would play into the delusion pretend like I was a
double agent who quit their job to marry this beautiful girl and I'd have to show her
our married license.
He alleged that her life was just so easy and perfect.
He said we worked very hard to keep her enjoying her life.
She didn't have to cook a single meal.
She didn't have to clean.
She didn't have to work.
She just had to take our medicine and enjoy life.
He also alleges that he texted Micah's family offering to pay for all their travel expenses
to come see Micah's body.
He claims they asked for 2500 but he gave them 3500.
He said within seven minutes after the family cashed the check they went on to Facebook
to post about needing money for travel expenses.
He claims he texted the entire family, quote, I'd love for you to come and see Micah's
body.
Here's the times that the funeral home says are best.
They thumbs up the message and about an hour after that they posted on Facebook that I
would not let them see Micah's body.
Please help me understand that is what he says.
Now again, he did not release these messages.
So he didn't show the messages.
He didn't release the messages but this is what he's alleging.
Antic talk.
Antic talk.
He's still talking.
Antic talk.
He's yapping.
He stopped yapping.
I think his attorney told him to stop yapping but he was yapping.
I wonder if these will be brought up later.
Yeah.
He continues.
They said I forced them to sign some cremation paper that I knew nothing about and had
no idea what they were talking about.
Days later I was given this piece of paper that the mom and dad both sign saying they wanted
Micah to be cremated and they chose to have that which I totally agree with because
of the way that she passed away.
I thought that was what was best but nobody forced them to sign anything or anything.
I don't even know about what they're talking about with that.
They said that I pushed for the cremation to happen quickly to hide things.
The national average is three days because after that the body starts to smell which I
imagine he had to look that up which is again very odd but he continues.
She was cremated six days after she passed away so that her ashes will be ready for the
funeral the next day.
While the family was there I told the funeral director I said let them know that I'll pay
for all the earns that they want to keep the ashes in.
I'll pay for the jewelry.
It's stainless steel cross because he's wearing a stainless steel cross.
It has Micah's ashes inside.
It's the only ashes I have.
They have all the rest of her ashes.
The funeral director called me and said the bill is going to be $18,000.
I said why?
He said they all picked out 24 karat gold jewelry.
So I said please call them back and let them know that if I'm paying they got to get the
cheap stuff and it was still well over $10,000 but I didn't mind because the way you treat
people was not based on the way that they treat you.
It's based on your own heart.
Exhausting to listen to him.
Yes.
And so if you could help me understand the answers to those questions I'd appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.
God bless.
He continues.
Here we go.
Okay.
All this is part B I guess.
The Francis family, Micah's family, said that there were bruises on Micah's body.
There were none.
I saw her body four times.
I saw it once in the hospital three times in the funeral home.
The hospital that prepared her body for me to see it.
The nurse and the medical examiner said there were no bruises.
And Robinson County said there were no bruises and the funeral home who washed her entire
body and put her in pajamas for us to see her body so there were no bruises.
So four independent parties say no bruises but then you have the one who waited until days
after she's cremated and there's no proof they didn't take any pictures.
They didn't tell anyone what they supposedly saw.
They wait till later and say hey, there were bruises on her body.
Bruises on her body.
I thought they did take pictures.
Yes.
From what I can tell they did take pictures but he's saying they didn't.
He said why in the world would we believe that?
I literally don't understand the logic behind it.
I don't understand it because let's say the Francis family came forward and said there
were no bruises on her body.
Robinson County said there were no bruises on her body.
The medical examiner said there's no bruises on her body.
The funeral said there's no bruises on her body.
And then I step up and I said, it's a lot.
Hey everybody, I saw bruises.
I know I didn't tell you when it happened.
I know I didn't take a picture.
I know I waited until after she was cremated but I saw bruises on her body.
Would you believe me?
Then another video which is probably more widely talked about for soft JP starts the video
early on by stating that Micah's mom was married multiple times.
Okay.
Nobody cares.
What?
The way he brings it up is very strange and disrespectful and I imagine because of his
religious background he thinks that people will draw connection.
I think he thinks people will draw connections to Micah's personality and her character based
on the amount of marriages her family had.
That is crazy.
Yeah.
He goes on to say, Micah, my wife had seven.
I think her mom's married seven times.
Michael Francis is the biological father.
He literally didn't need to say any of that because Michael Francis has been pretty vocal
about this case.
So like everybody knows and then if you just say Micah's father, what do you mean?
It's very obvious to me what I think he's doing.
He said the other day on some show, something to the effect of Micah's, one of her tattoos,
my name, that's my signature that is tattooed on her body.
He inferred that meant that I owned her and that I was controlling her and manipulative and
I made her get that tattoo so that I could brand her and stamp her and say that she belongs
to me.
That's not really how it worked.
She got my signature tattooed on the other side of her body but I don't think that it
means that I was controlling her manipulative.
I didn't think that it means that I owned her.
I don't think it was a brand or anything I forced her to do.
It was completely her idea.
I didn't know why Michael would think that.
But if you do think that's what it means.
If somebody has someone else's name, their signature even tattooed on their body.
If you think it means that person owns them and that they are over them and they're controlling
them, then what would you say, Michael, about this and whose idea do you think this was?
He then proceeds to lift up his shirt to show a tattoo on his side that reads Micah Miller.
But all anyone can focus on was the fact that the tattoo looks very glossy.
What do you mean?
The allegations online by Netizens is that he either just got it because you know when
you just get a tattoo, it's very pigmented.
It's shiny almost because ointment is on there and it just…
Yeah, it's very saturated.
Yes, it's super saturated.
Oh, yeah.
Because you recently got new tattoos.
Yeah, yeah.
Very saturated.
And then even ones that you have from a year ago, they don't look anything similar right
now.
Yeah, no, you can see the difference.
Yes.
So it looks like it was fresh.
Yeah, but I mean, I don't know.
Maybe it's here.
It doesn't get sun.
I don't know.
It looks very fresh or it looks like a stick on tattoo.
Ooh, okay.
It's what Netizen's alleged.
Unfortunately, we don't have proof of that.
And unfortunately, the Sheriff's Office have stopped responding to FOIA request and the
evidence remains under suppression orders.
JP has two, stop doing interviews and posting his little TikToks.
And officially, the FBI have gotten involved.
They are running a parallel investigation, but we don't really know anything further than
that.
Wow.
Like what they're exactly investigating, we don't.
So FBI got involved because there's so many people like raising suspicions on this.
Right?
Yes, but I, okay, that part is confusing because some sources, that's what it states.
Other sources state that it's actually because they were reached out to since the beginning
that they found Micah's body, that the police reached out to them and that they have been
running a parallel investigation.
But I don't know if that's the more accurate one because I think up until that point,
FOIA request were being taken in by that police.
As of right now, solid rocks congregation has also decreased by a lot.
Back then, before Micah's death, close to 700 people would be in attendance on Sundays
and now it's closer to about 50.
He's still talking?
He has been released from his ministerial duties.
And that is the current case of Micah.
And the very controversial, some would say manipulative, toxic abuser, manipulator, narcissistic
pastor, JP Miller, some would say that.
I don't know if I'm saying that because there are rumors that he's just, he's getting
too happy.
What are your thoughts on this case?
Have you heard about it recently?
I know it's been going viral, but I'm going to leave all the links for Justice from Micah's
page and I will leave her go find me linked in the description.
But please stay safe and I will see you guys in the next one.
Bye.
