The FBI is conducting an investigation Friday at the South Carolina home of pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller after his wife Mica Miller went missing six months ago and was found dead.
Local Myrtle Beach news outlets report multiple law enforcement vehicles outside of Miller’s Horry County home on Coldwater Circle in the Azalea Lakes neighborhood.
Pastor John-Paul Miller and Mica Miller
An FBI spokesperson Kevin Wheeler told Newsweek, “I can only confirm our presence there being related to court-authorized law enforcement activity.”
About 25 FBI agents were at the home wearing “Evidence Response Team” uniforms, News13 reports. They reportedly put on gloves and brought bags from a truck while preparing to enter the residence.
Neighbors told the outlet that Miller was not home at the time of the raid.
Mica Miller, 30, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April and was found in a Lumber River State Park in North Carolina. However, her family previously shared their suspicions that JP Miller played a role in her death.
Mica and JP Miller were in the midst of a divorce at the time of her death.
In an affidavit, Mica’s sister, Sierra Francis said that her sister warned family members that “if I end up with a bullet in my head, it was not by me, it was JP.”
Her family claimed Mica Miller kept a journal suggesting she was a victim of abusive coercive control.
JP Miller made headlines this week for appearing to make business moves.
On October 17, he filed court documents with the South Carolina Secretary of State for a new religious incorporation called Living Water Church at Market Common.
The purpose of the nonprofit corporation is charitable, religious, educational, and literary, according to the filing. The business address is listed as JP Miller’s personal residence in Myrtle Beach, SC.
If the new religious corporation is dissolved, the paperwork states its assets would go to St. Delight Pentecostal Church, founded by the mother of JP Miller’s mentor, Chares Randall.
On October 23, JP Miller formally updated the address of his church Solid Rock Ministries to its current location at 803 Howard Avenue in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Since 2006, the business address for Solid Rock had been his residential address for a home he shared with his first wife, Alison.
JP Miller, who “has a heart to ‘Love God and Love People'” started pastoring at Solid Rock in 2016, according to his bio on the church’s website.
Who was Mica Miller?
Mica Miller’s friends said she led the women’s ministry and worship team at Solid Rock. She did not have any children. JP Miller has five kids with his previous wife.
On March 22, about a month before her death, Mica Miller posted a video on Facebook offering advice to anyone who may be in an abusive relationship.
“God hates divorce. But why?” she asked. “According to everybody I’ve asked and the scriptures that I’ve found, it’s because it hurts people. But does abuse hurt people? How do you think God feels about that?”
Mica Miller and John-Paul “JP” Miller
More than a week prior to recording that video, she told a police officer that she was “afraid for her life.” In two incident reports, Mica indicated someone was following her.
JP Miller claimed Mica Miller struggled with her mental health and that he had disagreements with her family on her need to take medication for her alleged suicidal thoughts.
“If a doctor, especially seven doctors, especially nurses, and counselors all say, ‘This woman needs medicine or she’s going to commit suicide,’ you tend to believe them,” he told in July. “Especially, when she comes off her medicine she tries to commit suicide.”
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