What Mica Miller’s Friend Says She Feared From JP

Tony Brueski (0:00)

This is The Big Breakdown, a long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the HiddenKillers Podcast and True Crime Today. This is HiddenKillers with Tony Brueski.

Tony Brueski (0:19)

If you're just catching up with the death of a pastor's wife, watching it on Netflix and learning about the JP Miller and Mica Miller story for the first time, well, welcome. We've been following this case now for a few years, and I'll be more than happy to get you caught up. If you're also going, yeah, you know, it's just a lot that doesn't add up here. You're right. A lot does not add up here. Some things in this case, I will say, might be simpler than more conspiratorial thinking, but there's a lot that doesn't add up here. Before we get into this, JP Miller has always maintained his innocence. He's never been charged with the murder of Mica Miller, and we're not accusing him of it. I want to be clear on that. But yeah, there's just a lot. It's a lot of weird behavior and a lot of things. And we're going to lay it all out here and just let it simmer. Let you decide what you think might be going on with this case. Mica Miller left her apartment on April 27 to 24 dressed for work. She had packed a sandwich in her car, packed a sandwich in her car, ready to go for the day. The day before, she had signed separation papers from her husband, Pastor JP Miller of SolidRockChurch and MyrtleBeach, and talked to her divorce attorney about starting over. Her attorney Regina Ward says Mica was on top of the world and 100% ready 90 minutes after leaving her apartment for the second time that morning. Mica walked into Dick's Pawn Shop in MyrtleBeach and bought a six-hour, nine-millimeter handgun. She'd never owned one. She'd never fired one. Two and a half hours after that, Robeson County authorities say she used it on herself at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina. The ruling was S, the sandwich, by the way. Still in the car.

The sandwich she made for the day, still in the car.

Somehow, out of nowhere.

Time to go get a gun and end it.

JP Miller was not at the park. His vehicle was confirmed on Highway 17 in Horry County, South Carolina at 222 that afternoon, 32 minutes before the 911 call. He's not charged with causing Mica's death. He's charged with Cyberstalking her for 18 months before it.

I wonder what might have led Mica to do this.

What follows is every fact that makes the official story harder to accept. Harder to accept does not mean wrong. It doesn't mean it's a lie or not the truth.

It just means there are some difficult pieces here. And they deserve further examination. Mica's body was found in the Lumber River, roughly 100 feet from the gun. Two spent casings were recovered at the scene along with one live round. No traditional autopsy was performed because why would you want to do that? The North Carolina Medical Examiner produced a report with a diagram but not a full examination. Mica's father says there were scratches on her body and a bullet hole in a nearby tree. Every one of those details has an official explanation. A crime scene investigator who reviewed the case says the river explains the distance. Water moving at four miles per hour can carry a body in seconds. It can. The extra casing, he says, was likely a test shot. The ME stated the wound was not in the back of the head as had been speculated. Stack them together. Body a hundred feet from the gun, unexplained casing, no full autopsy. A father who says the injuries don't match and the question isn't whether each explanation holds alone, it's whether they all hold it once. A man named Johnny Jacobs was fishing at the park that afternoon. He told investigators he heard faint crying off in the distance and then a gunshot. Three boaters nearby heard the shot, none of them heard the crying. Jacobs found Mica's belongings, her fanny pack, phone, glasses and a small Bible about twenty yards into the woods, two feet from the water.

After the case went public, Jacobs came under severe social media harassment. He told people he had accidentally burned $1300 in cash, mistaking it for trash. On March 14th, 25, 10 months later, a driver from Chester, Virginia blew through a stop sign at 55 miles per hour and hit Jacobs' truck two miles from his home. Jacobs died.

The other driver was charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle. The collision report documents clear weather and unobstructed intersection. The driver who ran the sign. The conspiracy theories about Jacobs' death are wrong. The report, the charges and the circumstances point to what they say it was. A traffic fatality. But it is a little weird, I know.