54: Exposing JP Miller’s Shady History: Years Of Abuse, SA Allegations, and More

I'm about to kill myself, and I just want my family to know where to find me. Listen, if you want to know what I'm going through in life, it's always about what I'm preaching about. And if you want to divorce, you have to leave me, because the Bible says, I'll never leave nor forsake. I got a call late last night. My life has passed away. What had been going on? What had been going on in Micah's life that she would think her only way out was self-harm. I'm sure many of you, like me, have probably watched the latest true crime documentary on Netflix called Death of a Pastor's Wife. This docu-series dives into Micah Miller, her background, and, unfortunately, the events leading up to her tragic death. Now, obviously, if you've listened to this podcast before, you know that we are no stranger to Micah's case, not on this channel, not on this podcast. I've already done a few deep dives into the case, and I did a recent one. Gosh, when was it about a week and a half ago, diving into what Netflix missed, what they left out, and so many of you, not only replied, we want to know more about JP, we want to know what's going on with him, like, tell us more, because there's only so much you can fit into a single episode, but really, kind of demanding, like the JP Miller expose. And you know I've said it before. I'll say it again. I am a podcaster of the people. I am here to deliver what you want to hear, because there is so, so, so much more to JP Miller than a lot of people know. Not only what Netflix left on the cutting room floor, but just in general, the kind of shit he's been doing for years, for decades, what he's up to now, and so, what I wanted to do is today. Do a full-on episode exposing this creep of a man, JP Miller, otherwise known as Pastor John Paul Miller, not because he deserves a whole video on his own, and he is, you know, some great person, because he's obviously not, you know, how I feel about him. But more so, because you can't really talk about Micah and getting justice for Micah, without talking about the man who I believe was behind all of her suffering, which spoiler alert JP was a terrible person long before he even met Micah, and he has stayed a terrible person since her death. But if you have not listened to that episode, where we go through Micah Miller's story, what happened to her, the comparison to the Netflix doc, I highly encourage that you watch that. Before you come and listen to this episode, just so that you have the full backstory of Micah and everything that she went through. So there is a lot to go over today, guys. We are going to get into the nitty-gritty. We are going to be here for a minute. I'm Annie Elise, hit the like button, smash the subscribe button, the follow button, wherever you're listening, and let's jump right in. Now, there isn't a ton of background information on JP's childhood. What we do know is that JP was born to Reginald and Susan Miller in 1979, and the fact that JP would one day grow up to become a pastor, it really shouldn't be a shock, because it's all he really knew from a very young age. You see, he didn't just grow up in a family who prayed occasionally or made sure to go to church every Sunday. His dad was a united Methodist church pastor for two years in the early 70s. That's before starting his own church in 1972. The church was in Florence, South Carolina, and it was called Florence Tabernacle. Now, not too long after opening it, Reginald also opened up a Bible college called Gloryland Bible College, though it later got a revamp and was changed to Cathedral Bible College. But Reginald really wanted more. He wanted his sermons and his teachings to reach beyond the local community, but it also wasn't the same world in which we live today, where he could just make a Facebook page for the church. Go live every Sunday, stream live on Instagram or TikTok. So instead, he started a TV show called Good Morning Jesus, and it aired in five different states also aired in Canada. Which look, that's a huge step, but I don't know, maybe it might not sound like a lot, but for this guy who had been limited to the local community in South Carolina, I mean that was a huge deal. So when I say this is all really that JP knew growing up, I mean it. Everything revolved around ministry. JP would watch his dad preaching as a child, and he would imagine himself on stage some day preaching to a room full of people as well. And as we know, that dream came true. But how did he go from being a pastor's son to what he's known for today? Well, here's the thing. JP watched his dad do a lot of things growing up, and not all of those things were good things. JP wasn't the first in his family to go through a scandal or two. It started when he was younger. In fact, Reginald was going through scandals left and right when JP was still young. In the 80s, his parents separated. They ended up going through a pretty nasty divorce. And according to an affidavit from their divorce proceedings, Susan claimed that multiple female students from the Gloryland Bible College had accused Reginald of making sexual advances toward them. And apparently the allegations didn't only involve women. The affidavit writes that Susan's world began to crumble when several of the wives of some of the male students came to her, claiming their husbands had also felt extremely uncomfortable by Reginald. After he had made sexual advances toward them as well. Now, the identities of the men and women involved weren't made public. And this was long before victims, in my opinion, were given the kind of grace, empathy, and understanding that they often received today. It was more taboo, it was more hush hush. But these were public records. And Reginald's reputation, it started to take a massive hit. So in 1993, unsure of what else to do, Reginald moved his family to Myrtle Beach, hoping for a fresh start. But it turns out that trouble, it has a way of following you when you don't actually change who you are as a person. And in 2006, Reginald ended up being arrested at a bathhouse in Myrtle State Beach Park, and he was charged with ludeness and prostitution after he allegedly exposed himself to an undercover officer. Now all of that to say, that was how JP ended up in the Myrtle Beach area. By 1993, when they made the move, JP was 14 years old. So he was still young, yes, but also old enough to recognize these unhealthy family dynamics that were surrounding him. Not surprisingly, JP's relationship with his dad was very complicated. And he would later describe it by saying, "My dad never got father of the year award, not even once. However, he did provide for us, and if we were ever in trouble, he was the first one to take care of us and bail us out." But other than that, we didn't really see him much at all growing up. JP also was starting to take in how the adults in his life were reacting to situations that they were, you know, in the wrong in. Pretty much right away, JP started following in his dad's footsteps too, and not in a good way. Because in 1997, that's when JP was arrested for the very first time. Now granted, it wasn't anything as severe as his dad, it was only for driving with a suspended license. But as we know, that wouldn't be the last time that he got into trouble with law enforcement. A few months later, in 1998, he was arrested again, and this time, for a pretty awful crime. He was arrested for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and the details of this incident are more than insane. Apparently, JP hit a woman with his truck in a subdivision near Myrtle Beach, and then he continued to drive nearly 100 yards with her body still on his hood before ultimately stopping. Now, according to court records, JP argued that he wasn't in the wrong, saying that this woman had been harassing him, that she willingly jumped onto the hood of his truck and tried to damage it, then she refused to get off. So that's why he drove, which that was his version of events. However, the woman who had been hit, Jennifer Garland, she told a very different story. She was 19 years old at the time of the incident, same as JP. She and her family were in the Bride Creek subdivision of Myrtle Beach. They were sandbagging homes after extreme flooding had happened in the area. Now, because of the flooding, that road had been closed by the county authorities. There was even a giant road-closed sign everywhere, you know? But apparently, instead of seeing the sign and turning around, JP entered this area in his silver S10 pickup truck with black tape, by the way, covering the license plate, which that's weird on its own, right? I mean, why would his license plate be covered like that unless you're trying to evade something? Well, apparently, because JP had just been there minutes before in a different truck, he was speeding on the closed road, acting like an asshole. So, understandably, Jennifer and the rest of her family, who were trying to sandbag homes and actually do some good in the world, had told JP that he needed to leave, and then apparently he comes back in a different truck with the license plate covered. Now, JP never came out and said why he did any of this, but just based on everything we know about him, it seems like he probably got angry that someone was telling him what to do. And again, the hidden license plate, switching trucks, That suggests that he went back with bad intentions, and that's when things got scary. According to the complaint, quote, "Apon returning in the Silver S10." JP Miller again began to speed to harass the people attempting to save their homes. At the same time, Jennifer was walking on the roadway, and she was telling JP to slow down his vehicle. JP instead accelerated, and he ran into the plaintiff, pushing her onto the hood of the truck. JP drove with the plaintiff on the hood for approximately 100 yards, wherein he was then stopped by a witness, and Jennifer was able to roll off the vehicle. Then the defendant left the scene. Now remember, JP said that she was harassing him, but personally, I know who I am more inclined to believe. So after he was arrested, his bond was set at $5,000, and he very quickly paid it. So he literally got out the same day. His ultimate punishment was a suspended license for four years, three years of probation, 500 hours of community service, and in order to pay court fees. But like his dad had taught him, your past doesn't have to define your future. So JP moved forward. He got married to his first wife, Ali Williams, and they had four kids together. There was only one thing missing. JP wanted to follow in his dad's footsteps and become a pastor, and not just to any church that was looking for a new pastor or replacement. He wanted to open his own church, just like his dad. So in 2006, JP founded Solid Rock Ministries. Now Solid Rock wasn't affiliated with any specific denomination. It was described as a Christian church with four core values. We serve, we forgive, we respect, and we give. And the congregation grew, and the next thing that everyone knew, Solid Rock was really a staple in the community. For years, from the outside looking in, it seemed like JP was preaching and teaching those four core values. It wasn't until years later, the people started to realize that maybe that wasn't the case. But to anyone who walked in the doors of Solid Rock Church on Sunday, they might have seen JP as a lot of different things. To be charismatic, he could hold the entire room's attention. He was a leader, a husband, a dad, a friend. At one point, the bio on Solid Rock Church's website said that growing up, JP quote, "Thought Church was for fake people who were one way in public and another way behind closed doors." Which it almost paints this redemption story. Like JP was this young kid who questioned faith and the church and went through his own struggles. But then eventually turned his life around and became the guy who was preaching in front of everyone today. The irony is that JP was exactly the kind of person that his quote was describing. He was going to church, he was acting one way in front of the congregation and his family. But behind closed doors, he was an entirely different person and did more ways than one. And that is where Micah comes into the picture. Now if you've watched any of my previous episodes on this case or did watch the docu series, some of this isn't exactly new information. But for those of you who haven't done a deep dive, I do want to do a quick run through for you. So JP did a lot of sermons on the sanctity of marriage. And in hindsight, some of these marriage sermons are a little bit questionable at best. Ephesians 533, a woman is to respect her husband to notice him, to esteem him, to praise him that is verbal, to praise him and to admire him greatly. Wives, you should be your husband's number one fan. There should not be another woman in the world, including his mother, that praises your husband as much as you do. Don't ever speak to him disrespectfully. Don't ever speak to him in a dishonorable way. You could destroy his soul with the words that come out of your mouth. You say, well, my husband, he's made a lot of mistakes. Every man in this room has made a lot of mistakes. Every man in this room, if you have a husband that goes to church and has a job, that's in the top 1% of men on planet earth. And if he tides, that's in the top 0.1% of men on the planet earth. You can go to some other bosom, but he's not going to be the godly man that you're married to. Point being, marriage was a huge topic of conversation throughout the years. So when JP and his first wife Ali separated, the congregation was shocked. Divorce was frowned upon. However, their separation was the least shocking part of the story. Because the reason that they had split up was because JP was cheating on her. And he had been cheating on her for quite some time. And the truth was, the only way his wife even found out about it was because she found text messages on his phone to prove it. But again, that wasn't even the most shocking part of the story. The shocking part was that the affair was very close to home. Because JP was cheating on Ali with the then 20-year-old Micah. And Micah was someone that Ali knew very well. Micah had been coming to Solid Rock since she was 13 years old. Over the years, she had really immersed herself into life at Solid Rock. And one of the biggest things that she became known for was her voice. There are so many videos of Micah throughout the years singing at church. And it's clear she definitely had raw talent. Now Micah, her first husband Jeremy, Ali and JP, the four of them were all very close. In a later affidavit, Ali described their relationship by saying, Micah did not have a close relationship with her mother. And to some degree, I took her under my wing as an older daughter. I taught her how to drive, took her to get her driver's license, allowed her to care for our children, shared family meal times in our house, provided her guidance and advice. Now when the affair began in 2015, Micah was 20 years old. JP was 35 years old. But by that September of the same year, Ali and JP were officially divorced. Now the whole thing caused a huge ruckus within the church. I mean a pastor cheating on his wife with a woman in the choir, a woman who was friendly with his wife and was treated like another daughter. It was a lot of gossip and a lot of tea inside the church. And long before the divorce was even official, that gossip traveled fast. And pretty much everyone knew what JP and Micah were doing behind closed doors. But like I said earlier, JP and his family were no stranger to a scandal. It was how you reacted to the scandal that mattered the most. So JP wrote a letter to the church, laying it all out there for them, asking for forgiveness. And part of the letter read, "Dear friends, it's funny how the last series I had preached was tests, trials, and attacks. I can honestly say that I need to relisten to my own sermons. Though solid rock is going through a big trial, there is light at the end of the tunnel. I failed a test. I repented. I am and will for years to come remain faithful in counseling and have more accountability than ever. I sinned and disappointed you. I wish that I could please everyone who remains upset by paying for my sin, but I can't. I cannot atone for what happened. The consequences of my actions are far more horrific than you could imagine, but I am not going to turn my back on God. God has given me a gift. He has anointed me to speak his word in a way that draws people closer to Jesus. Just because I failed a test doesn't mean that I am going to turn my back on God and stop using that gift. I was recently offered a full-time secular job that would allow me to leave the ministry and never have to deal with the shame or embarrassment of what happened in my past. If I took this job, I would have a more peaceful life with no problems that come with ministry, no headaches, no cell phone, and I wouldn't have to stand up and preach God's word while looking in the eyes of people who know my failure. Although the offer was tempting, and though I will most likely take a part-time job on this side to take care of my family during this season, God has called me to rebirth solid rock ministries. So basically, JP used all of his word salad as some sort of weird call to a rebirth of the church as he put it. And apparently, there was some backlash. People felt like they had been lied to by JP, and like maybe they were being led by someone who shouldn't have been leading anyone. Allegedly, some people who attended the church at the time claimed that the church elders told them that they weren't being good Christians though if they couldn't forgive JP. So for some people, it felt like they didn't really have a choice. I'm sure that some people did leave, but a lot of them stayed. And eventually, as time passed, new members joined solid rock, having absolutely no idea what had happened between JP, Ali, and Micah. And then, two years later, JP and Micah got married. So it seemed like the whole scandal was in the past. But what a lot of people don't know is that while JP and Ali were going through their divorce, the affair was not the only thing making her uncomfortable. This information wouldn't formally come out for years, not until she filed an exparte motion for their two minor children in 2024. But keep in mind, everything that I'm assuming is true. about to go over is information that Ali was allegedly privy to back in 2015, during the divorce and the church scandal. So, she alleges that JP's affair with Micah was honestly the least concerning thing that he had confessed to her. And again, this is all alleged, but instead of paraphrasing, I'm going to read the exact court documents. JP told me that in addition to his affair with Micah, he had employed prostitutes, and he had been sexually inappropriate with several underage female members of our church. He blamed his immoral sexual behaviors on the sexual abuse that he experienced for years by his father, Wayne Miller, which if you're confused by that, his father's name is a Reginald Wayne Miller, so that's why she just referred to him as Wayne Miller. But as if that wasn't concerning enough, she wasn't the only one who knew about this. The church also knew about it. So she continued in these court documents by writing, "The church requested that JP enrol in an extensive sexual addiction program. However, despite him promising me that he would, to my knowledge, that never happened." Which if that's true, it makes the whole thing even more disturbing, because church elders were allegedly telling people they needed to forgive JP for the affair, all well knowing that there were much more disturbing allegations about what JP was doing behind closed doors that were going on more than the congregation ever even knew about. And it doesn't even end there. His ex says that understandably, she was sickened by learning about this, and she felt like nothing was being done about it. The court documents states, "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 of JP to file a police report or testify in court. When I learned that they were too fearful to report JP, I went to the police department for the purpose of making a report and requesting an investigation. However, I was in essence told by police officials 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 what JP had done and ensure that he was held accountable, which I truly don't even have words for how disgusting all of that is." And I think far too often, victims, especially in religious communities, they end up being blamed or shamed for what happened to them. They're made to feel like they somehow caused it or they are to blame for it. But like she said in the court documents, who was going to believe her over JP? Even if the girls did come forward, who was going to believe them over him? And I know what some of you might be thinking, you know, how can someone who has done so much harm managed to keep living life with no consequences? Well, it seems like maybe he had some help. She wrote in that same court document, "I began to realize the power JP seemed to have over the leaders and officials in our community. And based upon having limited proof, there was no way for me to ensure that JP was held accountable and prevented from continuing to victimize innocent people." She continued by later saying, "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." Further, he was given a special police badge that says pastor that he could utilize if he ever gets pulled over so they will let him go. Which I don't know. Looking through that, reading that, I don't know, is it safe to say that JP had some friends in high places? And if so, could that have had anything to do with why Micah's death was very so quickly ruled as self-inflicted and closed and he wasn't held accountable even on a lower manslaughter charge for driving her to do it? I don't know. Like I said, none of this information would come out until much later in the entire timeline. And at the time, JP was begging the church for forgiveness for his adulterous ways. And that forgiveness was granted. And over the years, JP gave many more sermons, many of which were very questionable, especially in hindsight because some of these sermons were overall just kind of strange or off-putting. "So let me tell you a little bit about myself. I grew up when I was a kid and I hung out with the wrong people, living in the wrong place. My father, he was like a craftsman and he would make things like out of wood and clay and stuff and he'd sell them to people who would actually use them for idle worship. And at one point, God spoke to my father and told him that we should move our family to a different city away from that and he didn't listen. Later on in life, he finally passed away and then God spoke to me and I took on my family and we moved where God told us to move. During that time, my wife and I were traveling to a different country, walking a vacation, we were just traveling through somewhere. There was a bunch of guys and I didn't know that I thought they had some weapons or something and I got scared and they were looking at my wife and so I told my wife to go sleep with them in order to save my life because I didn't want to be hurt. After that, I started tiring, which is a good thing to do, I started tiring. Then after that, I ended up sleeping with a woman that I was not married to. I thought God was done with me but then he came to me one day and spoke to me and told me he wanted to have a covenant with me, like a relationship, a covenant. He told me he would bless me and abundance. He told me I'd be a blessing to others. He said if anybody came against me, he would take care of it. I thought, "Well, God was my part of the covenant." God told me, "I want you to cut off a piece of your Weaner." I said, "God, I don't really want to do that." He said, "No, that's the sign that we're going to have this cut." I said, "God, I don't want to cut a piece of my Weaner off." Finally, I did it and I got a sharp stone and it was just, and then after that, God made my dreams come true and He called me His friend. That was my name. Abraham. Well, I scared some of y'all for a minute, didn't I? Some of the visitors were like, "What's the name of this church again?" Sure. Some sermons were, you know, I don't know, just trying to grab people's attention, tell a story from the Bible. Yet, at the same time, there's got to be a better way to refer to your penis than a Weaner during multiple times in the sermon. I don't know. Your sermons were giving advice on things that he had no business giving advice on, like financial literacy. Take a listen. So today's sermon and next Sunday's sermon, let me tell you what it's about. I get between 10 to 20 phone calls, texts, and emails every single week, every week of people asking for money, every single week. Stories from, you know, we don't have a job just two or three days ago. I got a girl down here, she has three kids, one of the daddies, one of the kids' daddies in prison, the other two, a bitter half to death, and so she ran with the kids, no job, babies that can't eat right, they pass out, I've stories every single day, every day people ask for money, every day. And so what I normally do is I pay them $20 an hour to sit with me and I teach them financial counseling. After those two or three hours, then I pay them $10 an hour to work here around church. I do this a lot and I'm passionate about it. So what I'm going to do is today's sermon and next Sunday's sermon are the six principles that I teach people in financial counseling. I'm going to do three day, three day, next Sunday. That way I can make one CD. So rather than me meet with them, the first thing I'm going to do is going to give them the CD or tell them where to find it on our website and pay them to listen to it. And then when they come meet with me, they'll already have those principles written down and their budget ready to meet. This sermon's going to help me because I get to save time by passing out CDs and it's going to help y'all because when anyone asks you for money, this CD is going to say things that you want to tell people when they ask you for money but don't have the guts to do so. So you get to hand them a CD and say, I'll pay you $20 to listen to this preacher and write down the six principles and then meet with me. So it's going to be, it's going to help everybody, okay? The reason I'm passionate about financial counseling is because it's just in me, I love what the Bible says about money. I love what it says. It's amazing how God created gold and just all these things that he talks about money. Jarring, I know. But in order to talk about some of JP's worst sermons, I have to talk about the things that were going on in his life during those sermons because it seemed like a lot of the time he was getting inspiration on what to talk about from whatever was going on in his personal life, drawing on personal experience. And JP himself has said that he is inspired for his sermons by what he's going through. God is so good to do that every single time. One day I'm preaching 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. A few years into he and Micah's marriage, things had already begun to spiral out of control. However, to those on the outside looking in, JP and Micah's marriage was one that was filled with love. I promised to always strive to continuously lead you to keep this. I promised to always support your enthusiastic personality and promise to remain faithful, loyal and encouraging to you. As we know, behind closed doors, things are not always that way. And Micah and JP's marriage was anything but perfect. and people started to notice that some of JP's sermons, they painted a picture of what was really going on behind closed doors. Take this sermon, for example. JP openly admits that people knew Michael was struggling, due to what I'm sure was JP's abuse behind closed doors. So they tried to be there for her privately. - My wife went in the hospital, you know, I looked at her phone and I counted over the past two years, 18 people who had texturing said, if you ever wanna talk about your husband, you can talk to me and say anything and I'll keep it confidential. Not a thing to somebody I want to hear, what somebody else says about their spouse. And two of those 18 were men. I thought, what could, you know, I was thinking, well, I read that and I thought, you know, Mark has today, he's one of our elders here and Jackie she oversees our New Testament discipleship. Could you see Mark calling another woman and saying, you know what, I just wanna tell you some things about my wife, I don't like. Or could you see Jackie calling a woman or me? Either one, though, if someone 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. Or take a listen to this sermon where he admits that he and Micah have a perfect marriage most of the time. - In our marriage, I think we have a fantastic marriage about 364 days a year. That other one day we go from a 10 to a one and then back up to a 10 the next day. But as soon as she apologizes and I forget her, we go forward. 'Cause first Corinthians 13.5 says, "Love does not keep a record of wrongs and I am a good godly man and I will forgive her every time she apologizes." Or how about this sermon where JP was talking about how a wife should talk to her husband and it seems oddly specific and very personal. - There's two words that every man hears and these are the only two words every man hears when someone talks at him. These are the only two words he ever hears and it is this successor failure. There's no other word of man here. She's been hearing these words since he was a boy. With everything his father said to him, with every coach he had, everything that comes across his path as either this successor failure. When you say to him, you forgot to load the dishwasher correctly. Here's what he hears. Failure. Well you left your sock drawer open again. Failure. Why didn't you clean up your trash? I've asked you three times. Failure, that's all he hears. Let me ask you a question. Why do you even need to say it? Why don't you just do what you say? Why don't you just throw the trash away yourself and serve him? Why does it need to come out of your mouth? Here's why. 'Cause you want to force your superiority on him and make yourself feel better by letting him know you made a mistake. That's the only way to do it. Why not just serve him and shut your mouth like he does for you in different areas. And you say, well I want to change him. That's why I keep telling him he's doing wrong. If one day he'll finally get it. If you really want him to finally get it, the one time he throws his trash away, throw off your clothes, do a little dance, and he'll never keep that trash out again. I'm telling you the truth. That is the God's honest truth. I'm not even joking. You change, you move someone forward through praises, not through telling them what they're doing wrong. No one has ever changed being told they're doing something wrong, nobody. You think my husband, he should just be more secure or he should be able to take it. Men are incredibly emotionally, they're incredibly emotional. They are, but they've been told by society to hide it, to never talk about their feelings, to never show their feelings. Have you ever read the Bible? Listen, the women in the Bible, right? A teenage girl, an angel comes in, you're gonna give birth to the Son of God. Here's what she says, well, be it unto me, even if you've said. When Debra and the whole place is going to hell, Debra says all to all the men, get up and fight men and follow me. Here's what men say in the Bible. God, kill me, I can't take another day. There's a whole book of the Bible called "Lamentations" written by a man, lamenting. Have you ever read David and Psalms? God, this is a horrible life so bad, but I give you my tears and I give you my life. Oh God, I feel like I'm in hell. That's how men are on the inside. We've been told to hide it. A man is emotionally sensitive to the same level that women are physically sensitive. So when you speak dishonorably to your husband in any way, it is equivalent to him punching you in the stomach. So what was really going on behind closed doors? Micah would confide in her closest friends and family members about the things that JP would do and say to her. And in the new Netflix doc, Micah's sister described the treatment that she would face as being mentally torturing. And honestly, I can't think of any better way to describe it myself. For example, Micah's family and friends alleged that JP was a stickler for having sex. To him, it didn't matter if Micah wasn't in the mood or didn't want to, to JP, she didn't have any autonomy. Her family alleges that there were days when JP wouldn't even allow Micah to sleep until they had sex. Other accounts alleged that JP would force Micah to have sex with him up to four times a day. And look, I have to say allegedly because these things are yet to be proven in court. However, based on some of his own sermons and him sharing his really odd feelings about sex and marriage, I'd say that's kind of confirmation enough for me personally. Things were apparently getting bad enough too that Micah was trying to document everything, whether that was in her journals, text messages, videos, et cetera, so much. Today, Micah's family has even used the different things that Micah documented to create something that they call Micah's list. And I want to go through this list because it not only gives each thing that Micah experienced a name, but it gives an example of how Micah experienced that specific abuse. The list is pretty extensive, though. And honestly, I could probably do an entire video just highlighting the different things that are listed in it. So I'm not going to go over every single page with you in today's episode. But I do want to cover some of the really hard-hitting entries as we're going through some of the categories, though. Try to imagine even for a second being in Micah's shoes. Maybe some of you have been. Maybe some of you don't even have to imagine because you've lived it. But one thing is clear to me, this is abuse and the way that JP was treating her prior to her death, it was despicable. Again, though, I do want to mention, even though this is in a document, everything is alleged. Now, let's start with isolation from family and friends. The document reads, "JP cut her off from her family and friends, taking her contact list by confiscating her cell phone and hiding it from her, telling her that her family is using her are not good people and she should disassociate with them. For bidding her to spend time with friends or questioning her incessantly about it so that the harassment outweighs the benefit of having the friendships." The list also documented the way that he deprived her of her basic needs. It writes, "JP would not let her sleep, keeping her up at night and pulling the covers off of her every single time she dozed off, throwing her clothes on the front lawn of their home, waking her up and screaming at her incessantly to the point that she had to leave to go to sleep in her car just to get some peace and rest." The next line item, stocking and tracking her wearabouts. JP hired private investigators to follow and track her and put multiple GPS tracking devices on her car. After they separated, he would follow or find her by GPS tracker and then he would drive by very slowly to make sure that she saw him. He would walk into any place that she was and he would go up to the table or the area to either make a comment or stand afar just so she could see that he was present. The next line item is how he humiliated, degraded, and dehumanized her. JP forced her to submit to humiliating sexual acts that disgusted and hurt her. He would tell her that she was mentally ill and have her hospitalized against her will. He put her down for having quote ideas or getting quote inspired by outside influences, telling her or others that she fell for anything that she wasn't smart. JP uploaded a semi-nude photo of his wife to the internet and then later apologized in an email and attempted to minimize the damage by stating quote, "It was only up for an hour." The next line item, rape. 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 that she watch him and sexual acts with other people and forced her to sit still so that 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 another man. The next line item, spiritual abuse. JP knew how much she adored and loved Jesus and the teachings in the Bible and that she wanted to be a good Christian. So he used it against her. When she wanted to divorce, he told her that God hates divorce and that it was a sin. When he would do terrible, terrible things to her, he would tell her that God said that she cannot judge him and as a good Christian she is to forgive him and even more so as his wife. Another line item, physical abuse, without marks. JP finger punched her in the throat. He held her up against the wall by her throat, slapped a drink out of her hand and while in public together, he snatched her plate of food from her and threw it and another line item, medical abuse. JP declared her bipolar, forced her to take lithium, a prescription of his own. Monitored whether she complied with taking the pills and forcefully gave her steroid testosterone shots in her arms, thighs and buttets. JP would make her swallow pills in his presence and if he thought that she did not take them, She would cut them up and put them in her food. or drink, this of his own admission. I mean, all of these things are horrible. Each on its own independently is awful and is certainly abuse. But layering these together, and again, this isn't even all of the list. This is only a fraction of it. It is awful what Micah was allegedly subjected to. And again, I say allegedly only because it has not been proven in a court of law. However, she herself had confided these allegations to those closest to her. And all the while, while Micah was struggling literally fighting for her life while still being alive, JP was there in the pulpit, giving sermons, acting like he was holier than now above everyone else, giving sermons like these. I will not lift a finger against, everybody say it with me. The Lord's anointed. You know, this is the boss, this ruining his life and doing horrible things to him. And he says, I can't touch you. I can't touch you because you're in a position that God put you in. That position means you have authority over me. And I am not allowed to harm you in any way. Honor your authority. There's no place we can go on earth where God will not put us under some type of authority. And it's there to bring humility to our life to see how well we can obey. And we will never get to the next level in life if we can't honor the authority that God's putting our life right now. And you can keep running from the authority and go to a different job and a different this and a different that sooner or later you're going to have to learn to honor and humble yourself under an authority. You may not agree. This is really, really big, okay? You may not agree with that authority. You might not like the way the president does things. You might not like the way your boss does things. You might not like the way your husband who's head of the household does things. You might not like it, but that's not the point. The point is is that God allowed that person to be in that position. God allowed that person to be put in that place. God called you to that authority and he expects you to obey with a good attitude. Even if they're wrong, you should learn how to submit and keep on going with a good attitude. When we dishonor the authority God put in our lives, we're actually dishonoring God. The husband's job is to really hear God for the direction of the household and to bring the wife into agreement with that. The wife should always honor and respect her husband. Now that he might not be good in every area, but he's got a position in that household. He has a position that God allowed him to be in, that you chose for him to be in. You chose him. He's got a position there. The reason a lot of you don't have miracles in your home is because you don't honor the head of the household. It was obvious that a lot of these sermons were about Micah. And like Micah's list described, she was a religious person who loved Jesus and wanted to be a good child of God. At some point, Micah even started making Facebook videos describing her situation, but not as obviously as JP was doing in his sermons. And let's just do a quick comparison side by side of the way that they would talk about each other. And again, I say each other very loosely since Micah wasn't saying JP's name or putting him on blast the way that, you know, I wish that she had done. Hey everybody, I just want to let you know that I'm alive and well and life's been kind of crazy a couple past weeks, months, years. I've kind of had to keep my circle really small for the past couple weeks just because I'm going through a lot and it's hard it. I just wanted to share that my my heart and my prayer is that the church would stay strong that y'all would stick together. So those were some of Micah's videos updating her friends and family who hadn't seen her or heard from her saying that she was okay and trying to move on with her life. And here's JP's response in front of the entire congregation. In my life, they went to Africa, had a wonderful trip, amazing trip. And she came back with the idea to start a school in Africa. And six weeks goes, it goes in the hospital, gets out and just leaves, just completely leaves me, leaves everything, drains the bank account and goes, guess what, while you're talking bad about me out there, I'm building a school in Africa for over a hundred kids to be able to be fed. I'm just doing that. I'm doing the work. Now listen, so while 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. Now if for some reason you aren't convinced about the abuse that Micah experienced, here's something that might sway you. JP's first wife has been pretty vocal since Micah's death. She believes Micah and everything that she went through, which think about it. She has every reason to not like Micah. Micah was the other woman. She was the one who she treated like a daughter but was having an affair with JP. She could blame Micah for ending her marriage or for breaking apart her family. Of course, yes, it does take two to tango and JP was more than willing, but you understand what I mean. She has no reason to advocate for Micah. But instead of that, and instead of hating her and slandering her or not believing her, she believes Micah. Once while talking about what it was like to be married to JP, she even said, I was married to JP for 16 years. Although my story and what I lived through with JP was different in some ways, many of the details shared with me by Micah are so similar to my own experiences with JP, so much so that I know that she was being truthful. In the exparte court document that I read to you earlier, the snippets out of earlier, she even wrote the things that she personally saw, saying, "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, just like psychological warfare. It kind of reminds me a little bit of Ruby Frankie when I heard hinges off the door. No privacy, taking doors off the hinges, putting up horrible things, just slapping them up on every wall so that she's constantly looking at these things, reading these things about herself, not being able to even close a door to have a moment of privacy, it is psychological torture." And Ali said that there were even times when Micah would call her, needing her advice on how to escape JP. They would even pray together, sharing this strange bond with one another after being traumatized by the same man. And as we know, unfortunately, Micah never got away from JP. She filed for divorce, and two days later, she was dead. Micah's lawyer has also been very public about the abuse that Micah was going through, and also some of the things that she was confiding to her in just prior to her death. Lawyers usually have a duty of confidentiality even to the grave, but I have the permission to speak about those things through Sierra who's the special administrator of the estate. So she has assumed the shoes of Micah and speaks for her. So she's given me permission to talk about most of these things, some know. But basically, Micah was telling me a lot of horrendous things, things that shocked my conscience, and I've been doing this for almost 20 years. Abuse? Yes. Every kind that you can imagine and even kinds that you can't imagine as a normal rational human being. And to see this absolutely beautiful 20, or she just turned 30, but she lived all of her 20s with this man. And she had such a beautiful spirit and aura about her that you immediately knew that she was, you sense, that she had a good heart, was a good woman. And she wanted to just be the best Christian woman there, but was. And she was having such a hard time reconciling between what God's teachings say about forgiveness and to pray for our enemies and so forth. And her duty as a wife, she felt spiritually. She struggled with these things because on one point, it's God says that as a wife, I need to be supportive of my husband. I need to be obedient. And I'm trying to do that. And at the same time, God is telling me that I need to forgive someone who's abusing me. So she had a difficult time reconciling, you know, that where am I supposed to forgive my husband for abusing me for doing these terrible things to me? Like I said earlier, that was just a summary of what Micah went through. And again, if you haven't watched any of my previous episodes or listened to them on this case, I highly recommend checking those out. And for years, despite everything that Micah said that she was going through, JP just continued living his life with seemingly no real consequences. However, after Micah died, something changed because suddenly she wasn't the only woman whose story people were listening to now. So fast forward to more recently. 2025 was a rough year for JP. On February 25, 2025, someone with the pseudonym Jane Doe number one filed a lawsuit against JP and also his dad who now goes by only Wayne Miller. The lawsuit was for negligence, gross negligence and recklessness, civil conspiracy, assault and battery, and violation of the South Carolina unfair Trade Practices Act. Now, let me read this to you because it is pretty wild. The lawsuit writes that JP and Wayne built their reputations in the Myrtle Beach area community and beyond. men of faith, dedicated to spreading God's Word and training future church leaders. But this image was a lie. Behind their religious facade, John Paul Miller and Reginald Wayne Wilson engaged in sexual abuse and predatory conduct, often targeting minors. They used their positions of power to manipulate and exploit vulnerable victims while concealing their actions from the public. And the actual incident that occurred is described in much more detail. By 2023, J.P. Miller had positioned himself as a high-ranking pastor of a large congregation, presenting himself as a spiritual leader while continuing to engage in predatory behavior. In 2023, the plaintiff encountered J.P. Miller in person in Myrtle Beach, while accompanied by a friend. Despite being in a public setting, J.P. leaned into Jane Doe number one as if to hug her, and instead shoved his hand down her pants, touching her genitals without consent. plaintiff immediately recoiled and tried to brush it off and moved his hand because she didn't think that her friend noticed and she was scared. About 30 minutes later, Jane Doe number one and J.P. had a heated argument about him using his title of pastor and using scripture to justify sexual misconduct. In response, J.P. cited scripture, telling the plaintiff, "No man is without sin and temptation. God understands that." plaintiff was left reeling from the encounter, experiencing a long delayed spiral of self-doubt and depression caused by this fresh assault on her by J.P. This sexual assault by J.P. triggered repressed memories from the plaintiff of things which occurred at an earlier time. One later reflection, and trying to remember previous events, the plaintiff realized that J.P. had assaulted her almost 20 years before. Jane Doe number one was sexually assaulted at the age of 15 in 1998 by J.P. Miller. At the time, she did not fully comprehend the nature of what had happened to her or the extent of the harm that it caused. The trauma was deeply buried, and for decades, she had no conscious recollection of the assault. The plaintiff lost her memory before she turned 18, likely within a few months or a year of the occurrence of the 1998 assault. It was not until she experienced another sexual assault in 2023 by J.P. Miller that the suppressed memories of the 1998 incident resurfaced. Through therapy and reflection following the more recent assault, Jane Doe came to understand the profound impact of the earlier abuse, as well as its connection to the psychological and emotional struggles that she had endured throughout her life. The lawsuit goes on to say that J.P. was 19 years old at the time of the assault in 1998, and that it happened at church. Now J.P. was actually employed by the church as both a youth leader and a musician. J.P.'s dad was also the head pastor at that same church. Now again, the woman in this lawsuit was 15 years old at the time of this assault. So just a warning, because the details in this lawsuit, they might be triggering for some people. The lawsuit details this assault by saying, "J.P. called out plaintiff's name and initiated a seemingly innocent conversation, inquiring about a mutual friend's recent absence from church." Without warning, J.P. forced plaintiff inside his father's office, shutting the door behind him. J.P. immediately became aggressive, physically overpowering the plaintiff and forcing her against the wall. Despite plaintiff's struggles and verbal pleas for him to stop, J.P. ignored her and forcibly moved her out of the office, down the hallway, and to a door that led outside to a grassy side yard of the church. That's where J.P.'s truck was parked. J.P. then forced Jane Doe #1 into his truck, and that is where he raped her. I mean, the act itself is so vile. But the fact that it was allegedly done in a place that is supposed to be a safe haven for people? A church, his dad's office, then right off site, the church grounds, it's sickening. Then, the second lawsuit came right after the first on March 5, 2025. The plaintiff in that case is referred to as Jane Doe #2. Now this incident involving J.P. and, in turn, his dad was from 1998, just one year after the alleged incident from Jane Doe #1. Now this incident did not take place in the church. However, it did take place somewhere that he and his dad did have control over. This time, it was at the Cathedral Hall Academy, a school that was run by both Reginald and J.P. And again, the lawsuit describes both of these men as essentially frauds, saying, "The school was run by Pastor Wayne Miller and his son John Paul Miller, who portray themselves as development of God, offering a faith-based education in a nurturing environment. Instead, plaintiff walked into a nightmare. Cathedral Hall Academy was not a school, it was a trap." The suit alleges that the school was problematic for many reasons. Apparently, there weren't any actual certified teachers, meaning that there was no real coursework or structure to things that these kids were supposed to be learning about. Most of the staff was allegedly either friends, old colleagues, church members, or friends of Reginald's. Again, with no credentials, other than knowing Reginald himself. But that wasn't even the most problematic part. It was a place where people very easily were turned into victims. The incident involving Jane Doe #2 went as follows. One morning in 1999, after chapel service, plaintiff was asked to hold the door as students left the church building. In the last student exited, she found herself alone with John Paul Miller, who was seated at the piano playing softly. John Paul Miller then asked Jane Doe #2 if she wanted to play the piano. At 14, Jane Doe #2 was trusting and saw no reason to decline. As Jane Doe #2 turned to leave, JP pulled her into a hug. She barely had time to react before JP's hands moved down her back, passed her waist, under her clothing, and touching her bare butt, and it didn't end there. The suit continues by saying, unsure of what to do, Jane Doe #2 told a teacher. But instead of receiving help, she was sent to Reginald's office. When she arrived, JP was already there. Reginald demanded that she repeat her accusation with his son standing beside him. Jane Doe #2's voice wavered, and she told the truth. Old did not ask for details, he did not care. He shouted at her, "You will not lie about my son." Then came her punishment. She was forced to write the words, "I will not lie about John Paul Miller 5,000 times." Now I have a lot of problems with that. #1 She goes to a trusted adult to try to tell them what had just happened. That adult tells Reginald who's in charge, which maybe that is the right move. But then before even speaking with her privately, of course it's an act of intimidation that she enters the room, and JP is right alongside him. Not only that, that would be intimidating, even if it was like a principle unrelated, but the fact that it was a father and son duo, of course that's intimidating at 14 years old. Then, still having the courage to speak her truth, they reprimand her, yell at her, say she's a liar, and force her to write 5,000 times, "I will not lie about JP Miller." It is awful, and it just goes to show equal bad behavior, right? Like father like son, Apple doesn't fall far, all the stupid analogies you want to pull out. Now, as horrific as both of these situations and stories are, nothing has come from it. The two lawsuits were filed in conjunction with an affidavit that was submitted to the court as part of JP's custody case against Ali. Despite both of those suits being from over a year ago though, JP has never been charged with any type of sexual misconduct, which is infuriating. However, 2025 was a big year for JP in more ways than one, not just these lawsuits, because just months after these two lawsuits came out, he and his now third wife, Susie Skinner, got married during a private ceremony on the beach. Now, JP and Susie have ties going back years, alleging that an affair between the two of them started back in potentially 2021. Now given how he and Micah got together during his first marriage, it's really no shock to imagine him getting with Susie during his and Micah's rocky marriage as well. Then JP moved to a new church, a church that he's still preaching at to this day, mind you. Which I'll touch on more on that in a second here. But on November 2nd, 2025, JP gave yet another sermon that has been clipped and pulled apart. This one is a little bit different though, because he's asking his new congregation for prayers and help spiritually. I've been asking y'all to pray for me each week. This is a very, very, very important week of my life this week and next week it could be kind of a almost a life or death situation and so I'm asking for 12 people in this room, 12 faithful tithers because I want to make sure your heart is there in the kingdom. Who are willing to fast something every day this week for me and you can fast a television, social media, a cussing, negative words, food, a solid food, whatever you go cigarettes, whatever you need to fast. But I'm asking you fast for me this week and that you pray out loud once in the morning And once at night, at least, it's on the 56th, it's on the 56th. And so if 12 people can do that because I want to know who you are, I'm going to ask my wife to just write down your names So I can text you during the week or know who I can text to pray for me or maybe even invite you over to my house this week So you just walk through honey. Just walk through the aisles. I'm just I'm just get all their names I want to make sure that I know that we know so I need you to pray out loud out loud. I need you to pray Psalm 56 at least and I'm asking you fast because the Bible says there's certain things They can only be accomplished through prayer and fasting. It was almost as if J.P. knew something else that everyone else didn't Some people were actually really confused about it, but they weren't about to pry for information However, if they didn't have to because a little over a month later in December of 2025 J.P. was indicted on federal charges of cyber-stocking and lying to police Both of these charges are in relation to Micah. The cyber-stocking charges alleged that J.P. cyber-stocked Micah from November 2022 until the very day she died The charges also accused J.P. of interfering and lying to police in October of 2024 as well as lying about how frequently he contacted Micah on March 11th 2024 and about slashing the tires on her car Which again, all of that is in my original deep dive if you have not listened You definitely need to because it really just goes through everything he did to Micah that Unfortunately resulted in her taking her own life now with all of this He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and he was released on a $100,000 bond Now it's super important to note that J.P. has not been charged with anything actually pertaining to Micah's death Even though her family and many people online believe that Micah did not take her own life However, investigators are not budging on her cause or manner of death They're obviously not looking for the person who killed her because they don't believe that's what happened They believe she took her own life Wow Things have really changed since the last time we spoke. What's the reaction please from Micah's family to these charges against John Paul? Yes, as far as Micah's family they have at this time Want to remain private. They're not making any public comments at this time Specifically about the charges or anything related to it at this time so they're maintaining their privacy on that You know fair enough and they they have hired you to represent them in a public way Like this morning to speak about this case and take us back you know Micah right she was Working with you on her divorce which never was finalized right Right she had retained me to actually file a separate maintenance and support action So I knew her first as a client and then of course, you know The things that we were collecting or that she was giving to me to prepare for that to ultimate divorce action Are the things that she collected protected and kept and turned over to me That was actually ended up being used to I think first of all to get a warrant to search his house And obviously second of all to get this indictment now moving forward to 26 JP is still out on bond. He hasn't seen his day in court yet and honestly We might not be seeing that day for a while as amazing as it is that Micah and her case have been so heavily publicized It's also going to make it very difficult to find an impartial jury Let's move on to a Netflix documentary a lot of people are talking about called death of the pastor's wife It's highlighting the tragic death of Micah Miller. She was found dead in a state park It was ruled as suicide But there have been suspicions surrounding her husband who has a pastor don Paul Miller He's set to return to court next month on charges of cyber stalking and lying to police What do you see happening here could he be charged in her death down the line Right now it doesn't seem to be that the feds or anything the state itself has enough evidence to charge him with her death Uh the problem that they've got right now at least he has is that this is now a netflix Series that everybody in the country seems to be as you mentioned talking about it watching it And that makes it very difficult to find jurors to judge his case fairly without having some bias now it can cut both ways It can also help him in the sense that it gives his attorneys more of a dear more question of those jurors to make sure they get the exact right people They want on that bit on that drary panel if this case does go to trial and JP does get found guilty He's facing up to seven years of prison and a $250,000 fine However for the time being JP doesn't seem all that concerned He's still showing up to his Sunday church services at mercy church in Myrtle Beach Not to be confused with mercy Baptist church in Conway South Carolina A church that has actually come to the press begging for the backlash to stop Hermes, I don't know what your goal is on earth, but this is my goal to fulfill my purpose My goal is not to make money. My goal is not to be famous. My goal is not to Accomplish my dreams My goal is to fulfill the purpose that God has for me. It is the only way. I'm going to be able to die Um with the smile on my face Knowing that I fulfilled what God had for me the the the beginning of the series started with this description I'm going to I'm going to read you the inscripture But the beginning scripture was this first Samuel 1612 the Lord told Samuel David will be keen arise Annoying him. That sounds like a great purpose, right? How many of you are at career day at school? In our booths there was like a team of little booths You know, there was a real estate booth and there was like an electric and plumbing booth and there was a booth King over Israel. Which line would you want to get in? The King of Israel line, right? That's the one I'm not, you know, I'd like a trial for this position It's you like something I'd be good at Um, it involves telling people what to do check Uh, it involves wearing the crown on my head and I can do it now How these people can sit and listen to JP every Sunday and in good conscious believe what he's saying that is beyond me I'm not buying that they don't know about him his past his reputation and surely have seen the Netflix stock and that it's been gossiped within the church, right? I mean, there's also protests that are happening every single Sunday outside of the church that have been ongoing As far as Michael is concerned, I mean what you got to see on film, that's who she was It wasn't like she came to church and put on a costume of a pastor's life and a smile When we would see her out in public or drop the dogs off after grooming. That's who Michael was What happened at Lumber River State Park as far as the fishermen and what he found and the Pretty much the lack of an investigation the circumstances at the river brought up a lot of questions with You know heard the ammunition the position of the weapon and the body and all that it didn't make sense It's a call I think one of the most disturbing things about this whole deep dive is seeing everything that this man has been accused of From the miners who trusted him to the multiple women whose lives he made a living hell And yet the only thing that he might ever get in trouble for is cyber stocking and lying to the police There is nothing worse than a truly awful horrific person being able to continue on in life with little to no repercussions And so far that is what has been happening with JP Miller And as much as I hate to say it that really might be how things end up I mean look at his dad Reginald his scandals go back decades and even though he did end up getting arrested I would hardly say that his day-to-day life has truly been affected Same for JP at least for now What's even more unfortunate apparently the Miller family legacy of terrible behavior didn't just end with JP He also has an older son named Logan Hardy from a previous relationship before his first marriage And there isn't much information out there about Logan or his upbringing But there is one thing about him that did become very public his 2024 arrest for first degree domestic violence So I guess the saying is true the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree So that's where we're at at the moment with pastor John Paul Miller the con artist the alleged sex offender the abuser I mean I could go on and on all day long, but you get the point So this really was my expose of the dirt bad sleaze ass hat loser creep weasel fuckface John Paul Miller I hope that justice is coming for you. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Will he ever be held accountable? Will he face justice? What is going to happen and have you watch the documentary and have you listen to my deep dive on Micah story Because that really is what has catapulted this monster to the forefront So I will be watching this closely and I will let you know what happens and where we go from here Thank you so much for tuning in and until the next one stay safe. Bye