COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller
COERCED is a true crime podcast investigating the death of Mica Francis Miller, a 30-year-old woman whose body was found in a North Carolina state park in April 2024 after she made a final 911 call. Although initially ruled a suicide, the podcast's team of investigative journalists uncovered evidence of alleged abuse by her husband, a Myrtle Beach pastor. The series is a remastered chronological retelling of over two years of reporting from the True Sunlight Podcast, produced by the award-winning team behind the Murdaugh Murders Podcast.
Episodes
17) United States v. John Paul Miller: The Raid, the Arrest & Indictment
For sixteen episodes, you've heard how every system failed Mica Francis Miller.
In October 2024, more than two dozen FBI agents descended on JP Miller's house on Coldwater Circle with an evidence truck, carrying out computers and boxes while a crowd gathered.
One week later, a mugshot — JP arrested after an altercation with a protester, released on a $776 bond. Then thirteen months o
16) Jane Doe 1 Was 15. Jane Doe 2 Was 14. The Lawsuits Name JP & Wayne Miller in Sexual Abuse Allegations
This episode discusses alleged sexual assault, including of minors. For support in navigating abuse, consider RAINN: 1-800-656-HOPE.
July 1998. A 15-year-old girl at pastor Wayne Miller’s church sits alone when the pastor's son comes in. The rape she alleges happened next stayed buried for 26 years — until the world learned Mica Francis Miller's name.
In 1999, at the same Cathedral Hall Acad
15) Why JP Miller’s Story of Mica’s ‘Previous Suicide Attempt’ Does Not Add Up
When Mica died, JP Miller told the world she had a long history of suicide attempts. In two years of reporting, this is the only alleged attempt a record exists for: March 23, 2018 — four months into their marriage, three months into a diagnosis Mica questioned until the day she died.
Journalist and producer Grace Hills walks us through how Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell reconstructed those months
14) Surveillance Footage Shows Major Discrepancy in Story of Chris Skinner’s Death
On Labor Day 2021... September 6th... 5 years from the publishing of this episode... Chris Skinner — author, motivational speaker, devoted father of twins — was found at the bottom of his neighborhood pool in Myrtle Beach, still in his wheelchair. Police closed the case in two days. The report's narrative runs five sentences. His body was cremated.
Thanks to Beth Braden's FOIA work, we were the
13) What Mica's Medical Records Reveal About Life With JP Miller...
After Mica died, a stack of her alleged medical records surfaced — spanning years of her marriage to JP Miller. Every month is accounted for except one: December 2017. The month a 23-year-old newlywed with no history of depression or mania went in for surgery and came out with a bipolar diagnosis...
Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell walk through what thos
12) ‘How Selfish And Ungodly’: Does JP Miller's Own Evidence Work Against Him?
Eleven days after his church wedding to Mica, JP Miller sent his 23-year-old bride an email. She wanted to come off the psychiatric medication she'd been put on weeks earlier.
Apparently, JP suggested that was "selfish and ungodly" — and if she wouldn't stay on her meds, she couldn't discuss it in his house. He filed that email in court as an exhibit… as evidence of his love…?
Investig
11) ‘The Devil is a Liar’: What JP Miller’s Emails To Mica Reveal About Their Marriage
In July 2024, just three days before settling with Mica's family, JP Miller filed a seven-page affidavit and more than 65 exhibits in probate court — texts, emails and invoices he believed proved he was a loving husband. He filed them himself. Unsealed. On purpose.
Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell walk through documents from their first six weeks of marriage, a civil cere
10) What Led To Mica’s Family Reaching Settlement With JP Miller + Affair Accusations
In July 2024, three months after Mica's death, her family reached a sealed settlement with JP Miller over her estate — and JP walked out of the courthouse smirking like a man who'd won. He hadn't.
In this episode, Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell break down the five things really driving that settlement, including the house JP sold to his church two months after Mica firs
9) Deny, Attack, Reverse: Why JP Miller Accused Mica of Stealing From The Church + Did JP Steal Mica’s Notary?
In February 2024, Mica Francis Miller was slipping out of JP Miller's reach — so he allegedly did what psychologists call DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Twice, JP's church reported Mica to police for theft. The amount? $159.00 — from a charity account funded entirely by Mica's own money. A judge refused to sign a warrant. But the accusation weighed on Mica, who told friends she
8) The Law That Could Have Saved Mica Francis Miller + The Abuse Alleged In Mica’s List
Mica Francis Miller did what victims are told to do, and the law had no name for what was being done to her.
In this episode of COERCED, you'll learn more about Mica's List: five pages of alleged abuse, drawn from her own journals, that her family's attorney Regina Ward read into the record at a Myrtle Beach press conference. Sleep deprivation. Forced medication. Locks changed, accounts h
7) How Horry County Police And Robeson County Medical Examiner’s Office Failed Mica Francis Miller
Mica Francis Miller did everything we tell victims to do. She documented. She called 911. She filed report after report… Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell walk through the record Mica built while she was alive, and the one the state built after she died.
In this episode of the COERCED Drop Feed™ built from True Sunlight Podcast reporting, you'll hear Mica’s own voice: calm
6) JP Miller Accused Of Assault & Abuse + What His Ex-Wife Said
John-Paul Miller's decades of alleged behavior are finally being brought into the light. Remastered from True Sunlight Podcast reporting by Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, this episode covers Miller's 1999 conviction for hitting a woman with his truck twice, and the 2019 pardon hearing where JP minimized the assault and misrepresented his own family and church.
JP's first divorce, from wife Aliso
5) Like Father Like Son... Divorce Documents of JP Miller’s Parents Show Pattern
Mica Francis Miller's father-in-law, pastor Wayne Miller, and his 2001 divorce from JP Miller's mother Susan reveal a chilling blueprint for what would later happen to Mica herself. In this episode, remastered from True Sunlight Podcast reporting by Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, court filings from Wayne and Susan’s divorce show a pattern of coercive control, financial punishment, and church-backed
4) Bathhouses and Bible College… The Troubling Past of JP's Felon Father Rev. Wayne Miller
John-Paul Miller didn't invent his playbook — he inherited it. In this episode, remastered from True Sunlight Podcast reporting, Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell trace the rise of JP's father, televangelist Wayne Miller: the 1970s "Good Morning Jesus" broadcast empire, a 500-acre compound called Gloryland, and 1987 allegations that he made sexual advances on his bible college students.
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3) The Terrifying 2022 Incident That Changed Everything For JP And Mica Miller
On the evening of November 16, 2022, Mica Francis Miller's sister called 911 from her home in Gaffney, South Carolina. Her husband, Pastor John-Paul Miller, had texted that he was "armed and ready" and on his way. Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, remastered from their original True Sunlight Podcast reporting, walk through that night's 911 calls and JP's texts to Mica, swinging from guilt to scripture
2) Red Flags & Receipts... Mica’s Best Friend Charlotte Exposes JP Miller’s Texts
In 2017, Mica Francis Miller met Charlotte Korn at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach — the same year, it turns out, Mica had secretly married her pastor, John-Paul Miller. Charlotte didn't know it yet, but she would spend the next 7 years watching her closest friend try to survive that marriage.
This episode is remastered from our original reporting on the True Sunlight Podcast — where Mandy Ma
1) What Happened To Mica Miller? Unraveling Evidence Of Abuse She Left Behind
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On April 27, 2024, Mica Francis Miller — a 30-year-old Myrtle Beach woman in the middle of divorcing her pastor husband, John-Paul Miller — called 911 from a state park in Robeson County, North Carolina. It would be the last time the world heard her voice. Ten day
Trailer For COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller
COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller is a LUNASHARK® DROP-FEED™ from the award-winning team behind the Murdaugh Murders Podcast — investigative journalists Mandy Matney, Liz Farrell and Beth Braden — along with producers Kate Thomas, Grace Hills and David Moses. It’s a remastered, chronological retelling of more than 2 years of original reporting from the True Sunlight Pod
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