FBI Searches Home of Pastor John-Paul Miller, Six Months After Wife Mica's Suicide

FBI agents conducted an authorized search of the home of pastor John-Paul Miller last Friday, spending more than half a day on location and making several trips with evidence bags, according to WMBF news. It is unclear whether or not the search was related to the death of his late wife, Mica Miller.

The story of Mica Miller went viral after we shared a video showing her estranged pastor-husband, John-Paul, announcing her death in a strange way following the church service, two weeks after she filed for divorce. At the time, John-Paul preached an entire sermon and then, at the very end, sprung it on the congregation that his wife died last night by killing herself and then told the congregation not to talk about it.

Hours after his wife Mica apparently committed suicide, pastor John-Paul Miller didn't tell his congregation, but instead preached the sunday sermon, yucking it up, cracking jokes and calling himself charming and handsome.

Then at the very end, he springs it on them in less than… pic.twitter.com/PNSe1OHNUZ
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Crucially, Mica filed for divorce two weeks before her death, releasing videos of how she’d been abused and harassed by her husband but was excited about the future. This led to worldwide speculation that he may have been involved in ‘unaliving’ her, but a police investigation concluded that she acted alone.

However, troubling details of their relationship came to light following her death, including him releasing pornographic images of her on a local Facebook group and putting trackers on her vehicle, prompting the belief that he took advantage of her frail mental health and drove her to suicide.

It was later revealed that John-Paul began an affair with Mica, who was his best friend’s wife and once a youth in his church, after she started babysitting his four children. When discovered, his wife Alison filed for divorce. In a sworn affidavit during the divorce proceeding, she would write:

“Our marriage and my husband’s career were less than stable at the time, because at the time my husband’s affair was discovered, he had previously admitted to both me and our congregation, that he had an addiction to prostitution.

He had also confessed to me and other staff members of the church that he had sexual encounters with young females from the church, who were under the age of sixteen.

When the defendant’s affair (with Mica) was discovered, the church leaders demanded that the defendant seek counseling for sexual addiction. When he refused, the majority of our church left the congregation.”