Embattled Myrtle Beach ‘Pastor’ John Paul-Miller has been indicted by federal authorities of making false statements to investigators and cyberstalking, according to Fits News, which reports:
Details of those charges have yet to be released by federal authorities, although sources familiar with the situation indicated prosecutors in the office of U.S. attorney Bryan Stirling were preparing to publicly announce the indictments this week.
Miller will reportedly not be apprehended by authorities, but will instead be issued a summons for his appearance in federal court on the charges he is facing. A date for Miller’s initial court appearance has not been set, although sources familiar with the docket indicated it would be scheduled “within the next couple (of) weeks.”
The story of John-Paul Miller and his wife, Mica Miller, went viral in May 2024 after we shared a video showing him 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.
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, prompting the belief that he took advantage of her frail mental health and drove her to suicide, including by allegedly posting nude pictures of her on a Facebook group and tracking her vehicle.
Since then, he’s been separately accused of sexual abuse of a minor by two women who have filed lawsuits against him, along with having his home raided by the FBI in November.
Speculation about John-Paul Miller’s affair emerged when he was spotted laughing and having drinks alone with parishioner Suzie Skinner four days after Mica’s death. Skinner’s own husband allegedly committed suicide a few years earlier after discovering his wife having an affair with Paul-Miller, in a case that is still open by the FBI.
Following the death of Mica, Alison Williams, John-Paul’s first ex-wife, filed for sole custody of the children, citing in part the affair he had with Suzie in 2021 that she confronted both of them about and that she said was an open secret, causing embarrassment to their children.
Williams divorced Miller in 2015 after discovering he had been having an affair with Mica Miller, who joined his church in her teens, and who he married in 2018.
In an April 2025 interview with Crime and Cask, John-Paul Miller confirmed that he was now dating Suzie Skinner but insisted they didn’t start their relationship until January 2025.
This telling of events conflicts with Suzie’s own testimony in one of Miller’s sexual assault cases, however, where Skinner admitted she’d had an adulterous affair with him.
This past summer, John-Paul Miller and Suzie Skinner got married.
