As Mica Miller’s household continues to advocate for a extra strong investigation into her loss of life, her sisters have zeroed in on her pastor husband John-Paul Miller, 44, who’s been seen carrying her diamond necklace in public.
John-Paul, also referred to as JP, informed NewsNation’s Wealthy McHugh over textual content that the necklace was the truth is Mica’s and that ‘the hospital gave it to me once I noticed her physique,’ including, ‘I instantly put it on, to really feel near her. She beloved that necklace.’
A pastor on the at Stable Rock Ministries in Myrtle Seashore, South Carolina, John-Paul additionally confirmed that the necklace he was carrying in a latest ABC15 interview was Mica’s.
In an interview with NewsNation, Mica’s sister Destinee Barrientos did not purchase John-Paul’s reasoning for donning the pendant.
‘In our opinion, it is not one thing that’s to really feel near her, it is extra of a trophy. It’s extra of primarily virtually one thing to nonetheless cling over her. She was making an attempt to get away, and so I feel it is a ultimate piece of her not with the ability to get away,’ Barrientos stated.
Mica’s sister Destinee Barrientos, left, says her John-Paul is carrying her favourite diamond necklace now as ‘a trophy’ and never ‘to really feel near her.’
Mica Miller, left, and John-Paul Miller, proper, are pictured carrying the identical necklace. Mica is seen in Ring doorbell footage the day of her loss of life carrying what John-Paul stated was her favourite necklace
Mica, 30, had filed for separation from John-Paul days earlier than she was discovered lifeless of what the health worker stated was a self-inflicted gunshot wound at North Carolina’s Lumber River State Park on April 27.
And that wasn’t the one time Mica had filed for divorce from her husband, whom she met when she was simply 14 years previous as a member of his youth church group. She additionally filed in October 2023 citing adultery however withdrew it in February 2024.
This proof of Mica wanting to separate up, plus John-Paul’s cavalier angle following her loss of life – together with going out on a date with a brand new girl 4 days after Mica’s suicide – has led the household and passionate followers of the case to reject the official story and push for solutions.
The newest troubling clue was identified by Mica’s different sister Anna Francis, who stated Mica’s physique had unexplained bruising on her arms.
‘There have been positively bruises on Mica’s arms that the health worker had no recollection of, and I did ask him personally is there any likelihood {that a} physique would have bruises on it from [being] collected from the water or somebody touching her after inspecting her?’ Francis requested.
The health worker informed her no, Francis stated to NewsNation, explaining {that a} physique can’t bruise after the center stops beating.
Mica (proper) died by suicide on April 27, after citing alleged adulterous conduct on the a part of her pastor husband
Mica’s sister Anna Francis stated she noticed bruises on Mica’s arms after her loss of life. The health worker informed her that bruises can’t seem after somebody’s coronary heart stops beating
‘So our household, as a substitute of grieving her on the funeral house, we had to enter battle mode, investigation mode, and do the job ourselves as a result of Robeson County was neglecting to do a correct investigation,’ Francis stated.
‘They made a reasonably PowerPoint that lined up completely each cause why she would have carried out this herself, they usually did not examine the opposite facet in any respect.’
The Robeson County Sheriff’s Workplace, which has been in control of the investigation of Mica’s loss of life, has been coordinating with the FBI and federal attorneys.
Whereas the FBI hasn’t commented, it’s understood that Mica stored a day by day journal detailing her battle and abusive marriage previous to her loss of life.
One occasion of probably abusive conduct got here to gentle by way of disturbing texts John-Paul despatched threatening Mica’s household 18 months earlier than his and Mica’s marriage broke down.
On the time, he texted his sister-in-law Sierra that he was coming to her house ‘armed’ and ‘prepared,’ DailyMail.com reported.
Mica Miller’s sister Sierra (left) shared a sequence of disturbing texts from her estranged husband throughout an altercation between the couple in 2022
Messages present Miller despatched a textual content to Sierra saying he was on her strategy to her home, the place Mica was staying in November 2022
The uncertainty round Mica’s loss of life has prompted dozens of buddies and residents to go protest exterior Stable Rock church this Sunday.
One protester informed NewsNation that the group could be demonstrating exterior the church each Sunday ’till we discover justice for Mica.’
Lately launched surveillance footage of Mica making a routine cease in to a gasoline station mere hours earlier than she was discovered lifeless solely raises extra questions for the household.
Mica’s father, Michael Francis, commented on the video, saying his daughter’s conduct did not mirror that of somebody who would wish to hurt themselves.
‘I imagine that it was all staged. I imagine that the entire thing was premeditated,’ Mica’s father, Michael Francis informed NewsNation in late Could when the footage was publicized.
The uncertainty round Mica’s loss of life has prompted dozens of buddies and residents to go protest exterior Stable Rock church this Sunday, the place John-Paul nonetheless preaches
One protester informed NewsNation that the group will probably be staging marches exterior the church each Sunday ’till we discover justice for Mica’
Within the video of her exterior of the gasoline station, Mica is seen pulling her black sedan as much as a pump earlier than she steps out of the automotive, opens up her gasoline tank and walks inside.
Contained in the store, she is seen strolling throughout the shop earlier than she stands close to a row of fridges, seems to be round, buys an vitality drink and heads again exterior.
Mica, wearing all black, then waits round for her tank to refill, and in some unspecified time in the future she opens the motive force facet door, grabs her drink and takes a sip, earlier than closing it and watching the nozzle.
As soon as her tank is full, Mica removes the gasoline deal with from her automotive and drives away.
The proprietor of the distant gasoline station informed NewsNation that when he noticed Mica that day, he did not discover something out of the abnormal.
‘Nothing, nothing particular. Nothing, you understand, like, simply common, common day, common factor,’ the supervisor stated.
Not solely that, Angela Clark, a buddy of Mica’s who was one of many final to speak to her, confirmed her texts with Mica the night time earlier than she died.
Mica Miller was seen in surveillance footage at a distant gasoline station simply earlier than she was discovered lifeless in a lake in Lumber River State Park on April 27
She pulled her automotive as much as a gasoline pump, walked within the retailer, purchased an vitality drink and walked out earlier than filling up her tank and driving away
Clark stated that Mica had texted her concerning the plans for that weekend’s Sunday service and requested for assist with automotive funds.
‘This isn’t any individual that is prepared to finish their life, that is any individual who was planning for the weekend, you understand and getting her automotive fee made,’ Clark stated.
Mica did nonetheless submit a video to Fb a number of weeks earlier than her loss of life talking about abuse inside marriage and providing help to ‘ANYONE scuffling with leaving a harmful state of affairs as a result of they assume God will probably be ‘mad’ at them.’
‘God hates divorce, however why? In accordance with all people that I’ve requested and the scriptures I’ve seen it is as a result of it hurts individuals. However does abuse damage individuals. How do you assume God feels about that?’ Mica added.
Within the wake of accusations of abuse and grooming younger women together with Mica, Stable Rock church hasn’t been capable of appeal to as many parishioners, with one latest service solely having 30 attendees.
John-Paul was launched from his ministerial duties on the church in early Could.
Regardless of all that, Stable Rock Ministries is sitting on $5.59 million price of actual property and a $430,000 four-seater aircraft that is supposedly used for missionary work.
The intense scrutiny on John-Paul started when he surprised his congregants throughout a service the day after Mica died, asserting her ‘self-induced’ loss of life and including that she was ‘mentally unwell.’
