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At first this would possibly look like a person sharing the worst information he may have gotten together with his neighborhood. However each new element makes this story a lot sketchier…
John-Paul Miller is a pastor on the Stable Rock Church in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina. He shocked his flock final Sunday, April 28 by asserting the demise of his estranged second spouse, Mica Miller. He mentioned, apparently fairly matter-of-factly:
“I received a name late final evening, my spouse has handed away. It was self-induced and it was up in North Carolina.”
He then gave everybody particulars about her memorial service and advised them to not speak concerning the announcement anymore inside the church. Bizarre. Additionally bizarre? He was exceptionally fast to label his ex’s shockingly sudden demise a suicide. He even added that “she wasn’t properly mentally”:
“Y’all pray for me and my youngsters and everyone. You all knew she wasn’t properly mentally and she or he wanted drugs that was arduous to get to her. I’m positive there will likely be extra particulars to come back, however hold her household in your prayers.”
Not like all his different sermons, this one isn’t out there to look at on the Stable Rock YouTube web page anymore — however it’s the web, and somebody received a duplicate anyway. See for your self (beneath):
He additionally spoke to native outlet WPDE, telling them the identical — simply actually speaking surprisingly candidly about her suicide, and her previous struggles with it:
“She had struggled with suicide earlier than. Every time we’d assist her by it and take her to the physician, and we received by it and all the things was high-quality. She even gave just a few testimonies right here at church that we’ve on video. She battled suicide however God took care of her and received her by it.”
He additionally advised the outlet:
“She was in all probability the best spouse anybody may ask for. She was extremely affirming. We spent each evening collectively for hours simply speaking and speaking and speaking.”
Terrible information… besides… Proper now the general public solely has his phrase this was a suicide. Robeson County Sheriff’s Workplace Main Damien McLean would solely inform the native ABC affiliate that there was an investigation into the demise of the 30-year-old, saying:
“Officers are within the means of gathering data from individuals in South and North Carolina as a part of their investigation into how Miller died.”
No official explanation for demise has been launched.
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Native NC outlet The Robesonian was the primary to report any precise particulars of Mica’s April 27 demise, saying she was discovered with a gunshot wound to the top at Lumber River State Park in Lumberton (about an hour and a half north of Myrtle Seaside). However they’ve since taken down their article! Everybody else was citing them for these deets. Why did they take that down? Did the cops inform them it’s too quickly?
In the meantime right here you’ve this Pastor simply telling anybody who will pay attention how his spouse undoubtedly died by suicide. If police weren’t positive but, wouldn’t you assume a partner would need to wait and be 100% positive, too?? Why would a husband be so forthcoming about such a private matter anyway? Appears slightly odd, proper?
Odder nonetheless? In all his discuss spending each evening collectively speaking with Mica, he didn’t point out she’d filed for divorce from him simply weeks earlier. Yeah. Clearly their marriage was not as lovey-dovey as he makes out. And she or he has zero images of him left on her Fb, apparently having deleted all the things earlier than March. And but he was the one who wrote her obituary. An obituary with strains about what an excellent spouse she was to him:
“She actually served Jesus and her husband with all of her coronary heart. She would reward her husband after each church service telling him he was one of the best preacher on the planet (even when it wasn’t true). She additionally advised him he was the funniest preacher on the planet (though that wasn’t true both).”
Man, this man actually made her obit all about himself. Ugh. This all simply appears so sus to us! No marvel her family members are asking for a full investigation! Her good friend Kenn Younger advised WPDE:
“This needs to be not less than regarded into deeply. There’s received to be some accountability right here.”
He made some extent of claiming “it’s not simply so simple as psychological well being points.” So what the heck is he speaking about??
Properly, Mica herself began referring to “abuse” in posts made shortly earlier than her demise. In reality, there are ONLY posts from shortly earlier than her demise. As talked about, she appears to have wiped all the things earlier than mid-March! However round that point she posted a video during which she talks about “going by abuse and harm.” She additionally talks about “leaving a harmful state of affairs”:
See that hashtag? #AbuseAwareness? One thing was occurring! She additionally posted simply three weeks earlier than her demise:
“When horrible horrible TERRIBLE issues occur to you… (yall know what I’m speaking about 😉 RPF: resting peace face #stillblessed #Godisgood”
She wrote that she was “nonetheless blessed”? And at peace? Hmm.
And in her personal publish asserting Mica’s demise, her sister made positive to say she “didn’t deserve the abuse she endured.” Whoa.
That leads us to what we’ve seen on social media that we can’t confirm. We’ve seen a number of girls claiming to be former members of the Stable Rock church and mates of Mica personally who’re accusing her ex — the pastor — of grooming, of stalking, of bodily and psychological abuse. We will’t confirm any of it, clearly, however it’s surprising stuff. And if we had been the cops investigating the case, we undoubtedly could be reaching out to speak to those individuals. Learn for your self HERE and HERE and HERE if you wish to dig deeper. However keep in mind to maintain a wholesome sense of skepticism as these allegations haven’t been vetted.
We simply hope the reality is discovered — and Mica will get all of the justice she deserves.
In the event you or somebody you realize is considering suicide, assist is offered. Take into account contacting the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org.
In the event you or somebody you realize is experiencing home violence, assist is offered. Take into account calling the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or textual content START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/.
[Image via Solid Rock Church/YouTube/Mica Miller/Facebook.]
