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At first this would possibly appear to be a person sharing the worst information he might have gotten along with his group. 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 saying the loss of life of his estranged second spouse, Mica Miller. He mentioned, apparently fairly matter-of-factly:
“I bought a name late final night time, 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 instructed them to not discuss in regards to the announcement anymore throughout the church. Bizarre. Additionally bizarre? He was exceptionally fast to label his ex’s shockingly sudden loss of life a suicide. He even added that “she wasn’t nicely mentally”:
“Y’all pray for me and my youngsters and everyone. You all knew she wasn’t nicely mentally and she or he wanted medication that was onerous to get to her. I’m positive there shall be extra particulars to return, however preserve her household in your prayers.”
In contrast to all his different sermons, this one isn’t obtainable to observe on the Stable Rock YouTube web page anymore — nevertheless it’s the web, and somebody bought a duplicate anyway. See for your self (under):
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 might assist her by way of it and take her to the physician, and we bought by way of it and the whole lot was positive. She even gave just a few testimonies right here at church that we’ve got on video. She battled suicide however God took care of her and bought her by way of it.”
He additionally instructed the outlet:
“She was in all probability the best spouse anybody might ask for. She was extremely affirming. We spent each night time 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 loss of life of the 30-year-old, saying:
“Officers are within the strategy of gathering data from folks in South and North Carolina as a part of their investigation into how Miller died.”
No official reason for loss of life 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 loss of life, saying she was discovered with a gunshot wound to the pinnacle 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 have got this Pastor simply telling anybody who will pay attention how his spouse positively died by suicide. If police weren’t positive but, wouldn’t you assume a partner would wish to wait and be 100% positive, too?? Why would a husband be so forthcoming about such a private matter anyway? Appears a bit of odd, proper?
Odder nonetheless? In all his speak about spending each night time 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 pictures of him left on her Fb, apparently having deleted the whole lot earlier than March. And but he was the one who wrote her obituary. An obituary with traces about what 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 the very best preacher on this planet (even when it wasn’t true). She additionally instructed him he was the funniest preacher on this planet (despite the fact that 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 instructed WPDE:
“This needs to be at the least appeared into deeply. There’s bought to be some accountability right here.”
He made a degree of claiming “it’s not simply so simple as psychological well being points.” So what the heck is he speaking about??
Effectively, Mica herself began referring to “abuse” in posts made shortly earlier than her loss of life. In truth, there are ONLY posts from shortly earlier than her loss of life. As talked about, she appears to have wiped the whole lot earlier than mid-March! However round that point she posted a video during which she talks about “going by way of abuse and damage.” She additionally talks about “leaving a harmful state of affairs”:
See that hashtag? #AbuseAwareness? One thing was happening! She additionally posted simply three weeks earlier than her loss of life:
“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 saying Mica’s loss of life, 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 ladies claiming to be former members of the Stable Rock church and associates of Mica personally who’re accusing her ex — the pastor — of grooming, of stalking, of bodily and psychological abuse. We are able to’t confirm any of it, clearly, nevertheless it’s stunning stuff. And if we have been the cops investigating the case, we positively can be reaching out to speak to those folks. 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 case you or somebody you already know is considering suicide, assist is on the market. Think about contacting the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline at 988, by calling, texting, or chatting, or go to 988lifeline.org.
In case you or somebody you already know is experiencing home violence, assist is on the market. Think about 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.]
