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COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller

On April 27, 2024, 30-year-old Mica Francis Miller — wife of Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller — walked a mile into a North Carolina state park and made a 911 call that would be the last time the world heard her voice. Within days, her death was ruled a suicide — a ruling that would have ended the story for most true crime journalists. We aren"t most true crime journalists. And Mica"s story is anything but typical. COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller is a LUNASHARK®

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17) United States v. John Paul Miller: The Raid, the...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/09

For sixteen episodes, you've heard how every system failed Mica Francis Miller.In October 2024, more than two dozen FBI agents descended on JP Miller's house on Coldwater Circle with an evidence truck, carrying out computers and boxes while a crowd gathered. One week later, a mugshot — JP arrested after an altercation with a protester, released on a $776 bond. Then thirteen months of silence, until a Wednesday in December 2025: a federal grand jury indicted John Paul Miller for cyberstalking Mica

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16) Jane Doe 1 Was 15. Jane Doe 2 Was 14. The...

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2026/09/08

This episode discusses alleged sexual assault, including of minors. For support in navigating abuse, consider RAINN: 1-800-656-HOPE.July 1998. A 15-year-old girl at pastor Wayne Miller’s church sits alone when the pastor's son comes in. The rape she alleges happened next stayed buried for 26 years — until the world learned Mica Francis Miller's name. In 1999, at the same Cathedral Hall Academy — the Millers' school in a repurposed bowling alley — a 14-year-old student says JP Miller sexually

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15) Why JP Miller’s Story of Mica’s ‘Previous Suicide...

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2026/09/07

When Mica died, JP Miller told the world she had a long history of suicide attempts. In two years of reporting, this is the only alleged attempt a record exists for: March 23, 2018 — four months into their marriage, three months into a diagnosis Mica questioned until the day she died. Journalist and producer Grace Hills walks us through how Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell reconstructed those months through Mica's records: the medication side effects no one weighed, including akathisia — a condition

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48:15

14) Surveillance Footage Shows Major Discrepancy in...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/06

On Labor Day 2021... September 6th... 5 years from the publishing of this episode... Chris Skinner — author, motivational speaker, devoted father of twins — was found at the bottom of his neighborhood pool in Myrtle Beach, still in his wheelchair. Police closed the case in two days. The report's narrative runs five sentences. His body was cremated.Thanks to Beth Braden's FOIA work, we were the first outlet to obtain the 911 call and the surveillance and dash cam footage — and after meticulously

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54:16

13) What Mica's Medical Records Reveal About Life...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/05

After Mica died, a stack of her alleged medical records surfaced — spanning years of her marriage to JP Miller. Every month is accounted for except one: December 2017. The month a 23-year-old newlywed with no history of depression or mania went in for surgery and came out with a bipolar diagnosis...Investigative JournalistsMandy Matneyand⁠Liz Farrellwalk through what those records actually document — a patient asking when she could return to work, a doctor writing about Mica and JP as "they," and

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68:46

12) ‘How Selfish And Ungodly’: Does JP Miller's Own...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/04

Eleven days after his church wedding to Mica, JP Miller sent his 23-year-old bride an email. She wanted to come off the psychiatric medication she'd been put on weeks earlier.Apparently, JP suggested that was "selfish and ungodly" — and if she wouldn't stay on her meds, she couldn't discuss it in his house. He filed that email in court as an exhibit… as evidence of his love…? Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell put JP's emails next to Mica's own alleged medical records —

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11) ‘The Devil is a Liar’: What JP Miller’s Emails To...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/03

In July 2024, just three days before settling with Mica's family, JP Miller filed a seven-page affidavit and more than 65 exhibits in probate court — texts, emails and invoices he believed proved he was a loving husband. He filed them himself. Unsealed. On purpose.Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell walk through documents from their first six weeks of marriage, a civil ceremony kept secret so his 23-year-old bride could move in "without living in sin" before her surgery,

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10) What Led To Mica’s Family Reaching Settlement...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/02

In July 2024, three months after Mica's death, her family reached a sealed settlement with JP Miller over her estate — and JP walked out of the courthouse smirking like a man who'd won. He hadn't.In this episode, Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell break down the five things really driving that settlement, including the house JP sold to his church two months after Mica first filed for divorce. Then we're exploring the strange PR machinery that appeared in the weeks before

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50:04

9) Deny, Attack, Reverse: Why JP Miller Accused Mica...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/09/01

In February 2024, Mica Francis Miller was slipping out of JP Miller's reach — so he allegedly did what psychologists call DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Twice, JP's church reported Mica to police for theft. The amount? $159.00 — from a charity account funded entirely by Mica's own money. A judge refused to sign a warrant. But the accusation weighed on Mica, who told friends she feared JP would pin the church's financial anomalies on her.In this episode, Investigative

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8) The Law That Could Have Saved Mica Francis Miller...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/31

Mica Francis Miller did what victims are told to do, and the law had no name for what was being done to her. In this episode of COERCED, you'll learn more about Mica's List: five pages of alleged abuse, drawn from her own journals, that her family's attorney Regina Ward read into the record at a Myrtle Beach press conference. Sleep deprivation. Forced medication. Locks changed, accounts hijacked, sermons weaponized. Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell dive into the

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7) How Horry County Police And Robeson County Medical...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/31

Mica Francis Miller did everything we tell victims to do. She documented. She called 911. She filed report after report… Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell walk through the record Mica built while she was alive, and the one the state built after she died. In this episode of COERCED built from True Sunlight Podcast reporting, you'll hear Mica’s own voice: calm and clear from a hospital bed in February 2024, telling police her estranged pastor husband has seized her phone,

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6) JP Miller Accused Of Assault & Abuse + What His...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

John-Paul Miller's decades of alleged behavior are finally being brought into the light. Remastered from True Sunlight Podcast reporting by Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, this episode covers Miller's 1999 conviction for hitting a woman with his truck twice, and the 2019 pardon hearing where JP minimized the assault and misrepresented his own family and church. JP's first divorce, from wife Alison Williams in 2015, followed his affair with Mica Francis Miller becoming public. Alison's affidavit

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5) Like Father Like Son... Divorce Documents of JP...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

Mica Francis Miller's father-in-law, pastor Wayne Miller, and his 2001 divorce from JP Miller's mother Susan reveal a chilling blueprint for what would later happen to Mica herself. In this episode, remastered from True Sunlight Podcast reporting by Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, court filings from Wayne and Susan’s divorce show a pattern of coercive control, financial punishment, and church-backed retaliation against a pastor's wife trying to leave. Susan accused Wayne of violence and control; he

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4) Bathhouses and Bible College… The Troubling Past...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

John-Paul Miller didn't invent his playbook — he inherited it. In this episode, remastered from True Sunlight Podcast reporting, Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell trace the rise of JP's father, televangelist Wayne Miller: the 1970s "Good Morning Jesus" broadcast empire, a 500-acre compound called Gloryland, and 1987 allegations that he made sexual advances on his bible college students. Wayne claimed a "credentials committee" cleared him of wrongdoing. Mandy and Liz found that committee's paperwork,

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3) The Terrifying 2022 Incident That Changed...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

On the evening of November 16, 2022, Mica Francis Miller's sister called 911 from her home in Gaffney, South Carolina. Her husband, Pastor John-Paul Miller, had texted that he was "armed and ready" and on his way. Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, remastered from their original True Sunlight Podcast reporting, walk through that night's 911 calls and JP's texts to Mica, swinging from guilt to scripture to threats. Twelve days later, Mica was hospitalized at Waccamaw Center for Mental Health — not by

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2) Red Flags & Receipts... Mica’s Best Friend...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

In 2017, Mica Francis Miller met Charlotte Korn at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach — the same year, it turns out, Mica had secretly married her pastor, John-Paul Miller. Charlotte didn't know it yet, but she would spend the next 7 years watching her closest friend try to survive that marriage. This episode is remastered from our original reporting on the True Sunlight Podcast — where Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell first sat down with Charlotte to trace the full scope of Mica's story. Charlotte

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1) What Happened To Mica Miller? Unraveling Evidence...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

Listen To Current Coverage On The ⁠True Sunlight Podcast⁠ or⁠⁠ ⁠Ad-Free from LUNASHARK Premium on Patreon or Supercast⁠⁠⁠ On April 27, 2024, Mica Francis Miller — a 30-year-old Myrtle Beach woman in the middle of divorcing her pastor husband, John-Paul Miller — called 911 from a state park in Robeson County, North Carolina. It would be the last time the world heard her voice. Ten days later, her death was ruled a suicide. But Mica's story is anything but typical — and she left behind a trail of

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Trailer For COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica...

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller ·

2026/08/28

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller is a⁠⁠ ⁠LUNASHARK® ⁠⁠⁠DROP-FEED from the award-winning team behind the Murdaugh Murders Podcast — investigative journalists Mandy Matney, Liz Farrell and Beth Braden — along with producers Kate Thomas, Grace Hills and David Moses. It’s a remastered, chronological retelling of more than 2 years of original reporting from the⁠⁠ ⁠True Sunlight Podcast⁠⁠⁠, built for listeners who want to follow one case. On April 27, 2024, 30-year-old Mica Miller —

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