South Carolina pastor charged with cyberstalking following ex-wife’s suicide

A South Carolina pastor has been indicted on two charges after his wife committed suicide back in 2024.

John Paul Miller, 46, of Myrtle Beach, has been charged with two counts of cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators following an investigation into his wife’s death.

Mica Miller was found dead at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina, just an hour away from Myrtle Beach.

The indictment alleges that Miller sent unsolicited and harassing messages to his estranged wife just before her death.

Miller allegedly posted an intimate image of his ex-wife online without her knowledge or consent.

The pastor placed tracking devices on her vehicle and, in one instance, contacted her 50 times within one day.

Miller is also said to have caused his ex-wife distress by meddling with her finances, her daily activities, and causing damage to her tires.

While Miller claimed to law enforcement that he had no involvement in the destruction of his ex-wife’s vehicle, it was later found that he had purchased a tire deflation device and had sent messages regarding her vehicle.

If found guilty, Miller faces five years in prison for cyberstalking and a further two years in prison for lying to authorities. Miller could also face a $250,000 fine.

A death that shook the internet

The death of the former South Carolina pastor’s wife, Mica Miller, took the internet by storm, sparking numerous YouTube video essays and investigations into her suicide.

This came after a video of the South Carolina pastor giving an unusual sermon, and another video of the pastor went viral online.

One of the videos shows Miller incapacitated on the floor being approached by officers.

Miller claims in a high-pitched voice that he had switched his medication, which “makes me go crazy.”

In a bizarre sermon, Miller announces to his congregation that his wife, Mica Miller, had passed away.

“Ya’ll knew that she wasn’t well mentally,” Miller said to his congregation, “and that she needed her medicine, which was hard to get to her.”

Mica Miller placed a 911 call from the national park moments before she committed suicide.

The case shook the internet because of claims that Mica had made before her death, that she experienced violence and harm at the hands of her husband, according to ABC11.

Following Mica’s death, a bill was set in motion in South Carolina, known informally as “Mica’s Law.”

This bill looked at making coercive control an offense, which means any “act or pattern of assault, threats, humiliation, manipulation, intimidation, or other abuse, including emotional abuse, that is used to harm, punish, or frighten another person by fraudulent representations.”

A list of different behaviors, ranging from depriving a person of their basic needs to threats to reveal or publish private information, is included in the bill.

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