Two years after her death made national headlines, Mica Miller’s story is reaching a much wider audience. Death of the Pastor’s Wife, a new three-part Netflix documentary, revisits the life and death of the Myrtle Beach woman and the questions that have followed her estranged husband ever since.
What is Death of the Pastor’s Wife about?
The docuseries examines Mica Miller’s life, her marriage to Solid Rock Church pastor John-Paul Miller, and the circumstances surrounding her 2024 death, per Netflix’s Tudum. It’s directed by Julia Willoughby Nason and Mike Gasparro. Several people close to Mica appear on camera for the first time, and Tudum notes the project incorporates footage that has never been shown publicly.
Who was Mica Miller, and how old was she?
Born in Wichita, Kansas, in March 1994, Mica Miller was 30 when she died. Her family eventually settled in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she graduated from Socastee High School, per Biography.com. Music and ministry shaped much of her upbringing; she sang in church throughout her youth before becoming a worship leader as an adult.
Did Mica Miller have kids, and who was her first husband?
Neither of Mica’s two marriages resulted in children, Biography.com reports. Before John-Paul, she’d married young, at 18, to Jeremy Deas, another member of the Solid Rock Church congregation, per Time magazine. That marriage dissolved, and Mica married John-Paul Miller in November 2017.
How did Mica Miller and John-Paul Miller meet?
Mica’s family had joined Solid Rock Church, where John-Paul served as pastor, and the two grew close over the years that followed, per Time magazine. What became an affair started around 2015, when Mica was 20 and John-Paul 35. Director Julia Willoughby Nason told TIME that the more significant factor wasn’t the age difference on its own, but the fact that Mica had known John-Paul as a religious authority figure since her early teens, an imbalance she said shaped everything that came after. Divorces from their respective spouses followed before Mica and John-Paul married each other.
What happened to Mica Miller?
In April 2024, Mica was found dead at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina; the official cause was suicide, per WMBF News. John-Paul is the reason the case never really closed. Mica had named him directly when she went to police a month before she died, saying she was scared for her own safety, according to Tudum, a detail that’s kept scrutiny of him alive well past the medical examiner’s finding.
Where is John-Paul Miller now, and is he still a pastor?
He’s out of the pulpit. Per Biography.com, John-Paul Miller, 47, has been released from his role at Solid Rock Church and is currently out on bond in South Carolina while his federal case works through the courts.
Was John-Paul Miller charged?
Yes. Federal prosecutors indicted him in December 2025 on cyberstalking and false-statement charges, per WMBF News. One allegation in particular has drawn attention: that he posted an explicit photo of Mica online without her consent, part of what prosecutors describe as a broader harassment campaign dating back to November 2022. The exposure adds up to seven years combined if he’s convicted on both counts. WMBF News reports the trial, once set for September 2026, has already been pushed to October.
Did John-Paul Miller remarry?
He’s married three times total. His first wife was Alison Williams, with whom he has five children; his second was Mica. By 2025, he’d moved on again to Suzie Skinner, a member of his former congregation, tying the knot roughly a year after Mica’s death, per Biography.com.
Death of the Pastor’s Wife is streaming now on Netflix.
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