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Mica Miller’s estranged pastor husband advised her funeral mourners he tried to boost her from the useless when he visited her physique after her suicide.
Mica, 30, was discovered useless in Lumbee River State Park in North Carolina on April 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
She took her personal life days after serving her husband John Paul Miller, 44, with divorce papers, and police dominated it a suicide.
Miller is accused in courtroom paperwork of grooming Mica for years earlier than they wed, committing her to hospital to steal her automotive, and dishonest on his first spouse with underage churchgoers.
The pastor gave an emotional 20-minute speech at a memorial service at Strong Rock Ministries in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina, on Could 5.
John-Paul Miller, 44, gave an emotional 20-minute speech at a memorial service at Strong Rock Ministries in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina, on Could 5
His spouse Mica, 30, was discovered useless in Lumbee River State Park in North Carolina on April 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
Miller advised mourners he visited her physique within the morgue 4 instances within the week since she died.
‘Every time it nonetheless did not hit me, I assumed she was going to get up – I even tried to boost her from the useless one time this week,’ he stated.
He went to the mall later that day and noticed a girl who regarded similar to Mica with comparable garments and tattoo on her arm and he instinctively yelled ‘Mica!’
When she circled it turned out to be was one in every of her sisters.
‘I assumed I raised her from the useless… I can not wait to see her once more in the future,’ he stated, wiping tears from his eyes.
Miller stated many individuals saying how lovely she was on the surface however ‘solely a partner is aware of how lovely an individual is on the within’.
‘If I had 10 hours it would not be sufficient to let you know all the nice issues about her,’ he stated.
Miller wiped away tears as he advised mourners he visited her physique within the morgue 4 instances within the week since she died and as soon as tried to boost her from the useless
Micatook her personal life days after serving her husband John Paul Miller, 44, with divorce papers, and police dominated it a suicide
He talked about magnificence pageants Mica gained, from college onwards, and moved on to tales that may assist funeralgoers perceive a ‘extra intimate facet of her’.
The couple married in 2017 and Miller recounted his elaborate proposal the place he introduced the congregation to the seashore beneath the guise of a baptism.
As a airplane flew by dragging a ‘will you marry me Mica?’ banner, he turned her in the direction of the ocean whereas the church clapped and cheered.
However she stated ‘why is everyone cheering?’ as a result of she could not learn it as a result of she did not have her contact lenses in.
Miller referred to as his estranged spouse ‘daring, assured, anointed, passionate’ at main worship, with a robust singing voice he may hear throughout their home.
He recalled how she sat by way of the Pitch Excellent film trilogy ’15 instances’ earlier than lastly telling him she did not like them, and a visit to a karaoke bar on a vacation to Cancun throughout Spring Break.
Mica sang Sunday Morning within the dingy bar, and the locals all stood up, raised drinks and sang refrain together with her in damaged English. They received her to sing 5 songs in a row.
Miller confirmed pictures of her doing adventurous issues on vacation that scared him.
‘I do not know if that is protected, I am loads older than you and I do not know if I needs to be doing this,’ he remembered telling her.
‘She liked doing harmful issues, she liked skydiving and she or he would beg me to do these items together with her and I stated by no means, I’ve kids, I can not do that stuff.’
Miller is accused in courtroom paperwork of grooming Mica for years earlier than they wed, committing her to hospital to steal her automotive, and dishonest on his first spouse with underage churchgoers
Miller shocked his congregants final week when, after a service during which he had laughed and appeared totally comfy, he introduced that his spouse had died
Miller additionally recalled how she satisfied him to get their marriage vows tattooed on their forearms.
‘I can not stand tattoos as a result of they harm and I do not like ache,’ he stated.
Mica’s household boycotted the service and held their very own on the seashore as an alternative.
Strong Rock posted the video virtually every week afterward Saturday and a whole bunch of viewers have been unnerved by his ‘pretend and unhappy act of injury management’.
‘This man is so near by no means having the ability for redemption. John Paul Miller get in your knees and repent for the way you handled this girl,’ one wrote.
One other added: ‘That is such a low degree of blasphemy. This man actually has no disgrace in any respect.’
Others have been disgusted that Miller ‘stalked’ her physique 4 instances after being topic to a restraining order within the weeks earlier than her demise.
‘That is the creepiest service. These are the fakest tears I’ve ever seen. Looks like he’s glad she is gone and speeding the funeral so he can get on with one other life.’
Mica referred to as police at the very least eight instances within the weeks main as much as her demise, making all method of accusations in opposition to him.
Reverend Charles Randall disputed studies he fired Miller as Strong Rock’s pastor, insisting he simply benched him so he may heal.
‘I’ve launched him from ministerial capabilities for a minute to get some therapeutic, and a few counselling and a few steerage. You’ll be able to’t undergo these items like this and simply step proper again to similar day,’ he stated throughout a sermon on Sunday.
Pastor John-Paul Miller (proper) seen with Reverend Charles Randall (left) at Strong Rock Church in Myrtle Seaside on Friday
Randall declined to answer allegations that Miller had sexual encounters with younger women beneath the age of 16 who he met by way of the church
He declined to answer allegations that Miller had sexual encounters with younger women beneath the age of 16 who he met by way of the church.
‘He’s grieving and therapeutic at the moment. I am in contact with Pastor Miller daily, and he is therapeutic,’ he advised DailyMail.com.
The claims have been revealed by DailyMail.com after acquiring explosive divorce papers filed in opposition to Miller by his ex-wife Alison in 2015, the place she additionally stated he admitted to being ‘hooked on prostitution’.
Miller additionally began an affair with Mica, who on the time was the couple’s babysitter and the spouse of his finest pal Jeremy Deas, his ex, Alison stated in an affidavit from 2017 referring to occasions two years earlier.
Alison’s affidavit claimed church leaders ‘demanded that the defendant search counseling for sexual dependancy’, however when he refused the ‘majority of our church left the congregation’.
Randall advised the congregation that Miller is ‘progressing’, and that he has stepped in to assist the ‘born-again Christian’ navigate the state of affairs.
A waitress additionally claims Miller was sending her flirty messages whereas his spouse deliberate to kill herself, together with calling her ‘tremendous sizzling’ and asking for ‘bikini pics.’
Within the days after her demise, her family and friends held a rally calling for ‘justice for Mica’ exterior the Strong Rock Church the place Pastor Miller works
Mica’s sister, Sierra, has filed a declare in opposition to each the church and Miller following her sister’s demise.
Court docket paperwork filed in Horry County Household Court docket accuse Strong Rock Church of ‘colluding and conspiring’ with the pastor to ‘defraud and deprive’ his spouse.
The couple initially break up on September 20 2023, earlier than the divorce was dismissed on February 13.
Later that very same month Miller filed in opposition to his spouse for separate assist and upkeep in a movement withdrawn March 11.
However on April 15, simply 12 days earlier than she was discovered useless, Mica filed for divorce as soon as extra and sought a no contact order in opposition to her husband. They break up for the second time on February 6.
DailyMail.com beforehand revealed how she accused him of posting a nude {photograph} of her on Fb simply weeks earlier than her demise.
Miller has since admitted to the malicious act and even claimed he tried to make amends – telling NewsNation the act was ‘evil’.
In a while March 14 and March 26 Mica reported that she had discovered a monitoring gadget on her automotive, after discovering it connected by magnets beneath the chassis.
One other police report over the alleged theft of her silver Honda Accord exhibits the breakdown of their marriage relationship again to February 2023.
‘When the complainant was discharged from the hospital, hospital workers knowledgeable her that her husband picked up her purse and her keys,’ the report states.
‘The complainant believed that her husband fraudulently initiated her involuntary hospitalization and ‘stole’ her care whereas she was within the hospital.’
Miller’s black Honda is noticed touring on Freeway 501 close to 4 Mile Rd., Conway, South Carolina on April 27 hours earlier than her demise
Mica met with the cops at Coastal Grand Mall and advised them she and her husband had been separated since January of that 12 months.
When investigators contacted her husband, he advised them that his spouse had been affected by a ‘reckless episode’ on account of poor psychological well being.
He stated the incidents have been annual crises which might flare up round Christmas and end in Mica spending excessively.
Miller advised the officer he seized the car to stop it being offered and wouldn’t give it again for a month to permit the episode to go.
As each events said they have been legally married, the investigator needed to think about the automotive as marital property and subsequently ‘couldn’t set up a felony offense’.
Essentially the most salacious declare in Mica’s police studies was that Miller, who’s 14 years older than her, ‘groomed’ her since she was 10, earlier than they married in 2017.
‘The complainant said that she has identified her husband since she was ten-years-old and that he ‘groomed’ her whereas she labored for him at Strong Rock Church till they have been married,’ the report added.
Miller’s lawyer Russel Lengthy stated this ‘could not be farther from the reality. She moved to Myrtle Seaside on the age of 15, was married to a different man on the age of 18 and divorced on the age of 21’.
‘It has come to mild that Mica Miller struggled with psychological sickness, particularly bipolar dysfunction, which, when not correctly managed, led to paranoid episodes and self-destructive habits,’ he stated.
Lengthy claimed ‘some studies made by her within the latest previous are nonsensical’ in reference to her claims recorded in police paperwork.
Lengthy added that Mica’s demise being dominated a suicide by police ‘fully exonerates Pastor Miller of any wrongdoing’.
Mica’s sister Sierra Francis advised NewsNation she in all probability meant Miller groomed her since 2010, as her sister advised her it started when she was 14 or 15.
Miller shocked his congregants final week when, after a service during which he had laughed and appeared totally comfy, he introduced that his spouse had died.
The pastor’s spouse was seen on CCTV buying a firearm at a pawn store, she later used the weapon to finish her life
The pastor, who has a felony document together with a number of counts of aggravated assault and battery to which he pleaded responsible, advised his congregation that her demise was ‘self-induced’.
‘You all know she wasn’t nicely mentally and that she wanted her medication and it was onerous to get to her,’ he stated.
Earlier than making the announcement, he requested his flock to face and instructed them to, ‘go away church quietly and do not discuss in regards to the announcement right here within the constructing.’
Proof launched by Robeson County Sheriff’s Workplace as a part of their investigation conclusively exhibits Mica plotting to finish her life. She purchased the gun just some hours earlier than her suicide.
Weeks earlier than her demise, she had shared a video talking about abuse inside marriage as claims emerged, she was being harassed and was ‘afraid for her life’.
‘At this time my coronary heart’s slightly heavy. I’ve had a lot of ladies which have reached out to me about conditions of abuse, and I simply need to let you know what lots of people have advised me currently, as a result of I believe I forgot,’ she stated.
‘However you’re the bride of Christ earlier than anyone else’s, male or feminine, it would not matter what gender you might be, abuse is abuse.’
