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Friends Of Mica Miller: ‘She Was Planning Her Future, Not Her Funeral’

“We didn’t know exactly how deep the abuse ran …”

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38 comments

Dianne Lopp Top fan May 8, 2024 at 3:05 pm

I’ll bet my bottom dollar the “pastor” voted for Trump.

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Anonymous May 8, 2024 at 6:33 pm

You are ignorant!!

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Tom May 8, 2024 at 7:54 pm

I’ll bet my bottom dollar your bottom is constantly “sore” ….

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Dianne Lopp Top fan May 9, 2024 at 1:20 am

Bless your heart, Tom.

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Blake Smith Top fan May 9, 2024 at 8:50 am

I bet she did too. So what now?

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Katie Top fan May 9, 2024 at 9:07 am

That is just a stupid and unnecessary comment, Dianne. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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Donald Trump Presents The Bible May 9, 2024 at 9:44 am

People are mad at you because you told the truth.

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Dianne Lopp Top fan May 9, 2024 at 2:21 pm

Yes—the truth hurts. As I always say, Trump’s supporters are not a reflection of him; he’s a reflection of THEM.

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Randy Bagwell Top fan May 9, 2024 at 2:10 pm

You are lopsided

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Anonymous May 10, 2024 at 1:26 pm

WTH…..What does this article have to do with Trump????

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Ronbo1968 May 10, 2024 at 2:44 pm

Diane Lopsided…you mean he most likely voted for the sexual deviant named Slick Willy and for sure the pedophile Sleepy Joe…I’m not surprised by your comment at all..in fact, I imagine you being so deviant yourself…heck, you support gender dysphoria and most likely refer to pedophiles as ‘MAP’…get some help

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FKJOEBURDEN May 13, 2024 at 8:50 am

What an ignorant statement. A young woman was groomed and targeted by a predator, pretending to be a preacher. He was a sick perverted disturbing person and he will go on to ruin another womans life. And you want to make it about politics. So since you took it there, beastiality, drug use, targeting young girls, that all sounds more in tune with the crooked Biden family. Who I am sure YOU voted for. Dumbass!!!!

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The Day May 13, 2024 at 10:15 am

Noted that you are engaged in harassment. Subpoenas to be executed.

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The Day May 13, 2024 at 10:20 am

Do you have a criminal defense attorney for what comeths?

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Goody3 Top fan May 8, 2024 at 3:57 pm

SO – the church is kaput???? Need to talk to the elders and see about the $$$$….in re Mica’s allegations. Maybe since the leader (can’t bring myself to call him ‘pastor’) has gone underground, some members might loosen up ….??? Wonder where he and his kids are???

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Dianne Lopp Top fan May 9, 2024 at 2:26 pm

Oh yes, you support a man who’ cakes his face in more makeup than Tammy Faye Bakker (to continue with the evangelical theme) on her best day–I bet you think Trump’s a he man wearing that mess–and I’m tilted? Bless your heart.

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The Colonel Top fan May 8, 2024 at 4:51 pm

SHE.KILLED.HERSELF. Continue to remind yourself self of that fact. “JP” appears to be a giant sphincter but that doesn’t change the facts. The fact that she had sought multiple support agreements doesn’t change that fact. The fact that he may (or may nor) have physically or mentally abused her doesn’t change that fact.
All the salacious details are now just so much click bait. How about leaving this alone for a while and revisit it when all of the hyperbolic bovine excreta has interfaced with the ventilation device and come to a rest. Then pick through the mess to garner the facts and then publish a piece on the lessons learned.

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Tom May 8, 2024 at 7:55 pm

Good reply. Yes, he was a dooosh – big wup, the world is full of them.

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CongareeCatfish Top fan May 9, 2024 at 9:40 am

Agreed- good reply. And also, a person within the range of normal mental health doesn’t go off and shoot themselves in the head based on what we are reading here. The cult leader was a two-faced douchebag, yes, but people get away from folks like that all the time – get divorced, move away and start a new life. Flat tires, tracking devices, and some stalky-yet- legal conduct does not equal a psychopathic murderer in development. And I also don’t see how someone can just take their spouse to a mental facility, spew some vapid lies, and then be able to check them into the facility against their will without there being some kind of objective, material evidence of mental instability that is more than just a “he said so” situation. But on the other hand, maybe his actions kinda drove her a bit crazy. There is alot more to this story than we know, it seems. It might be that she, he and most of the church body were a bunch of nutballs. Sometimes the story is not clean – no pure white hats and black shats, but a bunch of shades of grey running around.

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Anonymous May 10, 2024 at 2:40 pm

Did he drive her to do it? Because if he did that is a crime

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Anonymous May 8, 2024 at 6:36 pm

You are ignorant!!

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medmondsm Top fan May 8, 2024 at 8:44 pm

I’m not sure what to think of the church board members who were okay with the fact that their pastor admitted that he was “texting” with the daughter of church members WHILE he was still married. By the way, how old is this “daughter of church members”? And they were obviously okay that he and his estranged wife were going to “see other people” WHILE THEY WERE STILL MARRIED. And what happened to the first wife with whom he shared “multiple children”? Good Lord – the whole damn church must be drunk sheep!

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The Colonel Top fan May 8, 2024 at 8:48 pm

Cult of personality. At extremes, you get David Koresh, this guy is more of a Jim Bakker.

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medmondsm Top fan May 8, 2024 at 9:18 pm

Drink the Kool-Aid, Baby!

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Mammon Bless Us All May 9, 2024 at 10:27 am

“this guy is more of a Jim Bakker.”

JP Survival Buckets should be hitting the shelf soon.

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Dianne Lopp Top fan May 9, 2024 at 10:35 am

And Donald Trump, Colonel–Trumpsters compare their Orange idol, an adulterer and a constant liar, favorably to Jesus Christ and think he’s God’s messenger—I bet this congregation bought the sixty dollar Bibles and passed out Maga hats with the collection plate.

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Anonymous May 10, 2024 at 2:41 pm

You need help. Seriously.

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Brenda May 15, 2024 at 1:11 pm

Well if you’re against Trump who talks about God’s love all the time as well as the “ONLY” US President in history that actually participated in The Walk For Life Event while being our President to fight for and save the precious lives of unborn babies and has all these bogus investigations that aren’t even actually crimes that he committed, then he was fake impeached twice for things that the so-called now president actually did do like in reference the the first fake impeachment. Then the fact that the Democrats had the audacity to impeach a man who was already out of office when for the 2nd fake impeachment of President Trump is for the president sitting in the White House not for somebody who is no longer sitting in the White House such a bull crap. But plus I have issues with anybody who says things have been proven to me false without Merit no proof against former president Donald Trump and not even care about the in your face things that then now so-called embarrassment of a president Joe Biden between his horrifically racial remarks throughout his time in a government position between how very touchy feely he is with women and teenage girls and young children, the fact that his daughter Ashley Biden admitted that that was her diary that was taken in that those were her words admitted it and talk about sharing with her and that those showers are also with Ashley Biden referred to as inappropriate and she said she’s over sexualized as a kid and pretty sure it’s because her dad molested her. I don’t think any president or any person for that fact in this world is without fault or without sin nobody’s done everything right and nobody’s perfect however none of us are the judge as much as I can say I don’t like things that President Joe Biden has been in the past or is doing currently he’s still not somebody I’m able to judge because I’m not God just like former president Donald Trump when he was first running the first time before meeting with Billy Graham and stuff he talked in ways that I really didn’t like he didn’t talk like a man who cherished my loving savior but after meeting with Reverend Billy Graham and Franklin Graham and being prayed over by them he got closer and closer with God where you could actually see and hear it and all I can say is for how so many people on the left are demonizing this man over such false bull crap and stuff that aren’t even a crime and they’re only doing it cuz they don’t want him to run cuz the idea of another Trump presidency for some reason scares these crazy people when before the pandemic happened America was driving the best it ever has in my whole lifetime Joe Biden is the worst and most embarrassing president in the history of the United States presidents I used to hold that title for former President Obama and then a long time holding that title for former President Jimmy Carter but by then without a doubt be everybody hands down on being the most embarrassing and most horrible president in US history I’m just saying.

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Anonymous May 8, 2024 at 9:39 pm

Ol JP needs to be fully investigated, man behind it all no doubt, don’t take a genius to read and figure that out!

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Anonymous May 8, 2024 at 11:29 pm

I’ve been through most of what Mica went through with her husband – so I can vouch for the complete believability of what sounds bizarre and just not believable. I can vouch for the unspeakable humiliation, shame, confusion due to the element of faith, desiring to be “in line with scripture as a wife” and obedient to the husband in all ways, etc. It’s endless how the process of humiliation, defilement breaks down a human spirit. And, keep silence. These men are flawed, but they have a power, a charisma that most others, not all, believe. A husband who defiles his wife in these ways – crushes her spiriit, crushes her hope – but what saved me, and what saved Mica – was faith in the one, true, God, Savior – of the Bible. Perhaps it didn’t save Mica in the temporal body, but, it saved her for eternity. I had something Mica didn’t have – these men will not allow you to live when you know too much – too much about their secrets. But – if you can pay them off with enough money and give them their prestige and ensure that they can play the victim – you might be able to slip out and get far enough away to escape. I had more than a little bit of money in a trust fund, and, I gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse. He got to play the victim and he got enough money to carry him for the rest of his life. Mica didn’t have those options available. He most definitely killed her. Not sure how he pulled it off – but, he most certainly did. The mentality of obedience runs very deep – it is possible Mica obeyed, hoping for an intervention by the Hand of God so she would mysteriously live or the trigger wouldn’t be pulled. But, she also knew if her temporal life ended, she would still live. She had a valid and true knowing, believing, assurance of Who had savied her soul. Yes – I know most people who hear about Mica will believe the rhetoric of her husband. They and the church don’t know about these men. Maybe that’s a good thing? They are depraved, ill, sick. I’m sure Mica tried every resource, every way of prayer, and there simply is no rationale for understanding the type of depravity that these men crave.

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Nancy Bryson Top fan May 9, 2024 at 9:43 am

Other than stating that I am so terribly distressed to read what you wrote and to learn what you endured and how you gave up your money to get rid of this insect of a man as you have described him, I don’t know what to say. Likewise for Mica and I hope she is getting justice now in the life which follows this one. It certainly must be true that the NT mandate for wives to obey their husbands has qualifications.

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Diane May 9, 2024 at 12:13 am

Yes and the world is full of the dead wives of these

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Fitscommentator95 Top fan May 9, 2024 at 11:44 am

JP is a sleazeball. He needs to be investigated. While I am not convinced her killer Mica, I do believe that he either 1) drover her to kill herself or 2) hired someone to do it and make it look like a suicide. There are alot of instances from him that just do not pass the smell test.

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Fitscommentator95 Top fan May 9, 2024 at 11:45 am

*he killed

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CongareeCatfish Top fan May 9, 2024 at 2:38 pm

Did you not read the write-up at all? She was literally captured on the gun shop’s video camera – alone- buying the gun that was found in her possession along with the receipt for the purchase of said gun,with a time stamp on it matching the time of her gun purchase. You have ZERO evidentiary basis to believe the husband hired someone to do it and a huge mountain of hard evidence that shows otherwise. Please don’t ever go into police detective work…you’ll end up framing an innocent man.

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Shay Carlson May 10, 2024 at 12:35 am

She definitely killed herself, but I can understand why people have a hard time believing that, even with all of the evidence. I don’t think you have to be so hostile towards someone who is sharing their opinion. Buying a gun, driving to a state park, calling 911 to ask if they can trace her phone because she’s preparing to kill herself & she wants her family to know where her body is, with a flat affect & eerily calm demeanor….and then shooting herself at the edge of a lake so that the gun & her body disappear into the water seems incredibly unnecessarily complex, especially because she wanted her body to be found. Given this set of circumstances, of course people are trying to make sense of it….it doesn’t make sense. Mica found 3 different tracking devices on her personal vehicle, she’d been threatened by her husband, and she flat out told people that she wouldn’t kill herself & she feared JP would kill her. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to wonder if maybe she bought that gun for protection after receiving a barrage of threats, and that whoever was putting trackers on her car, &/or was following her, knew she bought a gun. The cops hadn’t done anything to protect her, maybe she felt like she needed to protect herself. Maybe she made that 911 call with someone holding her gun to her head. And maybe she tried to make a run for it, and was chased…maybe she ended up at the water, with no place to hide, was shot, and the gun tossed in the water with her body. It’s a good way of destroying evidence. And if she really did find multiple trackers on her car, and JP really did gain access to her electronics & her passwords after he had her 5150’d, and he was serious about his threats, then he had the tools to do it. It would be super elaborate & it would depend on a bunch of variables that HAD to go his way, but it’s not impossible. We know for sure that the 911 call came from her phone, but do we know for sure if that really was her voice? She could have been dead & in the water before that call was made.

Like you said, there’s ZERO evidence (you said “evidentiary basis” but “zero evidentiary basis” sounds weird) that her husband was physically involved in her death. The evidence overwhelmingly supports suicide. But we’re not cops. We’re just people trying to make sense of a death that is beyond tragic, and hard to understand. We’re all just sharing our opinions. No one is going to be framed in the comments section of this article. And you don’t have to worry, because you don’t just fill out an application to be a detective….you start with the academy and you build from there. There are tests and everything. By the time Fitscommentator95 becomes a detective they’ll definitely have learned the rules surrounding “evidentiary basis” and not framing “an innocent man.” For now though, we’re just chatting so relax.

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jpwasaperv May 13, 2024 at 5:18 pm

theory—the 911 call was spoofed, HE was NOT with his alibi, but instead, his alibi was in the truck making sure it was seen, his phone pinging in these locations, while HE spoofed the 911 call, DROVE his possibly already dead wife to the park, fired the shot and placed her body in the water. got out of there to meet up with his alibi and wait to be notified her body had been found.

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BCFL Top fan May 13, 2024 at 8:57 pm

Agree, and, it makes sense. The Miller family has a long standing prestigious presence in both SC and NC areas, and southern LE protocol favors man’s autonomy over his household. I know a good bit more than I ever wanted to know about the far reaching strings of control inherent in the umbrella of authority. Mica had broken not only JP’s rules, but the church rules. I know outsiders simply cannot comprehend how a group of people could possibly justify helping a “pastor” discipline his wife in such a way, but, to them, it’s the “right” thing to do. They have their own rules. And, it does appear that law enforcement might have members who agree with these doctrines as well.

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