11) ‘The Devil is a Liar’: What JP Miller’s Emails To Mica Reveal About Their Marriage

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Coerced is a lunar shark production made possible by producers Kate Thomas, Grace Hills, and David Moses. Today, we're going to talk about JP Miller and what his own evidence filed with probate courts says about him. Evidence that he thought exonerated him and proved that he was a loving husband who deserve to be the PR of Mike as a state. In our last episode, you heard how JP Miller spent the summer of 2024 building a case for the public. The murderer accounts, the fake reporter, the two A.M. recording. Three days before the settlement was announced, JP swore out a seven-page affidavit in Mike's probate case.

Attached to more than 65 exhibits, texts, emails, and voices that he believed proved that he was a loving husband who deserved control of his weight waves a state.

He filed this all by himself on purpose, aggressively not sealed. What JP's own exhibits actually document is the first six weeks of his marriage to Mike.

“A civil ceremony kept secret, a surgery, a psychiatric hospitalization, a diagnosis, in a three-page email titled our life.”

The JP sent his 24-year-old bride nine days before their church wedding. Read in 2024, JP thought that these documents would get the public on his side. In reading them now, especially with a federal cyber stocking trial weeks away and Mike's story being the most watched series on Netflix, they read like something else entirely. A manual, written in JP's own hand for how coercive control begins. The next passages are from true sunlight podcast episode 63, published in August 2024. So, the probate documents were sickening and difficult to read, but also so incredibly important when it comes to the core of this story which is exposing and identifying abuse.

This is what we're learning about people accused of being coercive controllers. Their alleged abuse isn't just experienced by their targeted victims. Even just reading these primary documents from JP, reading his own words to Mike is difficult. The manipulation is relentless, relentless, and when you're reading it from this helpless position that we're in right now, this position of only knowing about Mike up because of her death, and knowing that there is nothing that any of us can do to save her, it is only more difficult to bear.

Because you are reading JP's words in realizing, "Oh my God, this is the burden that Mike had been carrying on her shoulders every single day of her relationship with this man."

It actually starts 15 years earlier when she was just 15 years old.

“JP told Mike who she was over and over and over, and he told her how she was supposed to be over and over and over.”

And he told her when she fell short of those expectations put on her by him and by God.

And though JP clearly thinks that this probate evidence exonerates him that this is his moment of hallelujah, now everyone will see that I am all but a misunderstood hero.

He would be very mistaken, very mistaken.

“This latest file from probate court references more than 65 exhibits from JP. Remember JP's claim that he had over 350 pieces of evidence showing that he had nothing to do with Mike's death?”

What's 350 minus 65? Does this mean we can expect 285 more pieces of evidence from JP? God help us, it's that's the case. Eight of those probate exhibits remain sealed at the request of the Francis family, but the rest they are aggressively not sealed. At any rate, one of the biggest things we've learned from these files is that, like we said, the alleged coercive control started even earlier, which isn't a big surprise, obviously, Mike herself put it on the record that she believed JP had been grooming her since 2010 when she was about 15 years old and he was about 30.

Real quick, I know JP denies that he ever groomed Mike, he doesn't say it that way, but here's how we see it without even knowing what her relationship with JP looked like from ages 15 to 18. We know that Mike says she worked for the church starting at age 15. We know that when she was 18, JP was the efficient and her marriage to her high school sweetheart. We know that from ages 18 to around 21, Mike was a fixture at JP's house. She was a nanny to his kids and sought counsel from his wife. We know that around age 21, possibly earlier, like a began sexual relationship with JP while both were still married. We know that around age 21, her fair with JP was discovered by the church, and we know that two years later, at around age 23, she married JP.

Think about that. It's a mud slide right into his arms, right? The generous view would be that they were so inexplicably drawn to each other that they ran toward their destiny together, but we already know the ending to that and it is no fairytale. So, did he groom her? We don't know, but it does not look good from where we're sitting. We are highly suspicious of any married man in a position of power who befriends as he put it, a 15-year-old child who idolized him. So, we think this is important context to everything you're about to hear, especially when you take in what the early days of their marriage look like. According to sources, Mike was set to have breast augmentation surgery in late 2017.

We're told that JP insisted that he be the one to take care of Mike up post-op, and that to do that they would need to get secretly married before her surgery so that they wouldn't be living in sin when she moved in with him.

“Mike has said that JP pushed her into getting the surgery. JP contends that Mike was the one who wanted the surgery and that he didn't want her to have it, which sure Jan, now why is this important?”

Because there are a few ways to look at it. The first way is that JP cared so much about Mike that he wanted to open his home to her.

And begin their lives as a couple, ASAP, and as part of his new husbandly duty care for his wife post-op, which, by the way, post-op care for breast implants is typically just a few days. Most patients are able to return to work within five days after their surgeries, meaning it's a little extreme to suggest getting secretly married as a remedy to a recuperation like that. It's not like she was going to need months of care. Except, that's what happened, isn't it? This simple recovery became a complicated one, and it morphed into something else all together.

Over the course of the previous two years, he had, according to court records and police records, gotten caught having an affair with Micah, allegedly admitted to molesting King girls at church, and allegedly using sex workers while married to his first wife.

“His first wife filed for divorce, and the court found him in contempt for not paying child support and alimony.”

He hounded his first wife repeatedly to get back together. He fell out of a tree, allegedly up there carving his ex-wife's initials into it.

He had the police called on him several times for allegedly harassing, and stalking his first wife, and over custody disputes. He was found crying and squeaking like mini-mouse, lying, crawled up in the field position in the grass by his first wife's house saying he wanted to go be with Jesus. Something he says was a result of mixing his medications. And he had lost the vast majority of his congregation. I.E. most of his revenue stream. JP seemed stunned that his first wife had actually left him this time. That she'd finally had enough, and he was greatly affected by this.

Let's not forget that police report show that he moved into a house across the way from his first wife, and would surveil her home from there allegedly, even allegedly, shining a green laser into her windows. Even allegedly trying to poison a tree that blocked his full view of her house. And yet, this man's word continued to be trusted. It is enough to make you want to rip paper into confetti with your bare hands. Okay, let's put ourselves in JP's mindset in 2017. He had just built his church back up, and the new congregation loved Micah.

Is it possible that he entered into this marriage with Micah, with a fear that he could lose everything again? Is it possible that he knew his behavior as a husband was probably going to be egregious, that he'd struggle to be faithful to a wife? Did he feel pressured to marry Micah because it would legitimize him in front of his flock?

And did he go into the second marriage in abject fear that she could leave him at any time, and possibly would, that she wouldn't put up with his antics?

“These are all speculative questions, obviously, but they're important ones to consider because a pathologically insecure man who is afraid to lose a woman who is too good for him, tends to try and trap her, right?”

We have plenty of stories of that happening throughout history. I mean, good word. The foundation of the women's rights movement is really about freedom to live, right? Freedom to earn and spend money, freedom to pursue any career, freedom to buy property, freedom to divorce. It's fundamentally about having agency, and not having to rely on a man or be trapped by one, ever. Oh, and how about our entire legal system?

There are so many examples of laws that seem to have been created by Peter, Peter, a pumpkin eater. You know him, right? Had a wife and couldn't keep her? He put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well.

“So, did JB Miller trying to put Mike on a pumpkin shell?”

Did he use what should have been, and likely was, a transient health scare in late 2017, to handcuff her? Did he exaggerate her behavior to fit a narrative? Did he fill her head with ideas that she was sicker than she thought? And then use that to real her in, whenever he felt like she had stepped outside his tight emotional boundaries. Let's take a look at what his own filings have to say about this. Remember, JB once claimed that he had 350 pieces of evidence proving that he had nothing to do with Mike's death.

What we found when we actually read the first batch of JB's evidence was proving the opposite of what he intended.

And that pattern matters beyond this podcast. This fall a federal jury will be asked to weigh in on JB's own statements against the record. Prosecutors have already alleged that he lied to investigators once. So, let's do what the jury will do. Next, Liz and I look at JB's affidavit paragraph by paragraph, starting with his very first claim about who Mike was.

just three days before his settlement with a Francis family was announced. He says this, quote, "Mikea grew up in an unstable home with about ten step parents total.

“She lived with people unrelated to her for many years of her life before turning 18 due to problems with her mother."”

As evidence of this, he provided a screenshot of a single text message from Mikea and his response to it. There is no date attached to these messages, but it looks like Mikea wrote, quote, "I am very, very, very lucky to have found a female that I'm okay with considering my issues with women,

basically being molested by my own mother."

So, yes, we both have deep issues with the same sex. I was willing to compromise and go without you. You've given no compromise.

“So, one, we have no idea what Mikea meant by molestation there, especially because she qualified it with a word, basically.”

We have found no records that Mikea's mother was ever charged with anything resembling this accusation from JP. We know from sources that Mikea had issues with her mother throughout her life.

But, according to multiple posts on social media over the years, it appears that they had periods where there was not a strange man.

That said, this is not evidence of his assertion that Mikea grew up in chaos, but it is evidence of JP trying to exert control over Mikea, because it appears Mikea is telling JP that she's trying to see a male doctor, and he's been making that difficult on her. She's making a point to say, "Listen, I was lucky to have found one female doctor, and I'm trying to work with you here. I want to see the male doctor, and you can come with me, but you're not making this easy." In text, JP responds to Mikea, "Find your man."

Go talk to him, and if you like him, I'll come along and listen, even though it brings me anxiety, stress, pain, and in quotes. Then he redacted several words there. He goes on, quote, "But I'm going to do it because you fought so hard to have that even when I told you what the result would be. If you really wanted a man, and we're not okay with a woman, we could come up with other options, but the only reason you want a man." Then he redacted the rest. It is not clear when these texts were sent because there is no data attached, but the takeaway is this.

Did you notice the manipulation? In our opinions, the subtext is this. Yes, you can do the thing you want to do, but just know that you're hurting me when you do it,

“and I'm allowing you to do this thing even though I've already told you so on how it's going to end. So you should plan on me, throwing that in your face later on.”

Also, I'm going to gaslight you by saying that you are not being honest about your motivations here. Did you notice the phrasing of "Find Your Man"? Isn't it wild how manipulation can be contained in so few syllables? JP doesn't say, "Go and find a male doctor." He makes it personal and attaches meaning to it by saying "You're a man." He says it to escalate things. And for our listeners in Ireland, I promise you, "Find Your Man" means something very different in this case, especially when it's a husband saying it to a wife who appears to be doing something that does not please him.

It's a trip wire where there didn't need to be one. It's another egg shell for Micah to tip toe around. So this was JP's big proof that Micah came from a chaotic upbringing. A single text with a vague reference, absent any context, that's actually about his own insecurities in Micah seeking a male doctor. Right out of the gate, JP seems to be serving us a big old backfire. It's so sad that he doesn't seem to know that women can go see whatever doctor they want to go see without the permission of their husbands, and that it's supportive partner.

Doesn't make that hard on them. A supportive partner says, "Great, do you want me to come as moral support?" Not you wanting to see this doctor causes me anxiety, stress, and pain. I mean, grow up in paragraph two of his affidavit.

JP goes on to say that Micah and he married at the end of 2017. Like we said, their first marriage was on November 17 in a civil ceremony.

Their church ceremony was on December 31st, which will both post links to their wedding videos on social media so that you can see it through this new lens with this new information.

They're seemed to be attention there that we originally described to the fact that they were paramores now getting married in the church that they're a fair, narrowly destroyed.

“But when we watch them again, with the context of everything that was going on at that time, in his affidavit, JP says that on December 1st, 2017,”

Micah decided to have an elective surgery. In the exhibits he's provided an invoice for a plastic surgeon's office, but to be more accurate, and again, according to JP's own evidence, the decision on the surgery occurred back in September before they were married. The surgery cost around $5,300. A deposit was made on September 29th and the balance was paid on November 29th. The surgery was scheduled for December 1st. On November 29th, Micah signed her surgical release form, Micah Francis, not Micah Miller.

JP goes on to say, "When she awoke, the doctor's informed me that she was having a psychotic episode.

Micah began writing "Undercipherable emails" on December 15th, 2017. I know. That was a whip-lash pairing of two sentences.

Does JP provide evidence that doctors told him she was having a psychotic episode? No. Instead, we have one so-called "Indecisurable email" which we'll get to.

“I just first want to reiterate that Micah's family says that the surgery changed Micah.”

And this is when JP began telling them that she was mentally ill. It appears that Micah was suffering from post and aesthetic psychosis. According to JP, again, he's provided no actual evidence of this. And this is something that came last hours or days, but usually disappears. This is when JP says doctors diagnosed her as bipolar and schizophrenia, by the way. Again, to this day, he has not provided any concrete evidence that she was diagnosed as schizophrenic in December 2017.

Additionally, there are multiple inconsistencies in his own recounting of that December 1st through December 31st timeline when you put all the pieces together. In his July 15th interview, a TikTok user flow daddy.

“JP said that two things happened after this augmentation surgery that he totally didn't push Micah into getting.”

One is what we talked about. The post and aesthetic psychosis he says that she had. JP says in the interview that Micah began speaking in tongues. Two is that a few weeks after the surgery, one of Micah's breasts hardened. JP says that he wanted to sue the doctor, but that this doctor's practice had shut down from lawsuits immediately before he could do anything. Okay, back to the avidavid and the undcipherable December 15th email.

The JP says that Micah sent which JP included in his exhibits. So the email is actually from someone else. JP refers to this person as a friend. The sinner's name is redacted. We don't know for sure. But we have been told that it appears to be from Trisha Ross, who is JP's right-hand woman at Solidrock. Now, mind you. In December 2017, 23-year-old Micah Francis, 23 years old.

Is about to marry a 38-year-old pastor in her second marriage. She is planning her wedding.

And it's going to be at a church that he runs in the church that fell apart when news of their affair came out two years earlier. That is a lock for a 23-year-old woman to be dealing with. On top of that, turns out she married an alleged coercive controller. Add to that. She just had major plastic surgery. And, according to JP's own words, two weeks later, which would be December 15th, the same day of this strange email.

JP is referring to in the avidavid, one of her breasts hardened to resemble a bowling ball. Which means that Micah appears to have had a very serious infection. Postsurgical infections can result in fever and high fevers can cause hallucinations. This isn't even accounting for the pain medication she was likely on. In the email, JP's friend, likely Trisha, tells him that we really have to help Micah.

"I told her before you too can work on things. She has to get well by seeing a psychiatrist." In quotes, "She says Micah needs help ASAP and quote, "I would consider this a manic episode. I am worried about her because if her mind, thoughts and energy continues like this, she is going to crash so hard. I thought listening would help her, but the mania is at a point it cannot be controlled.

So we know from sources that Trisha had met with Micah around this time and told people that Micah went on for hours and was making no sense.

“Again, it is not 100% clear that this is an email from Trisha, but it does track with other reporting that we've done.”

Did you notice the part where the person said "before you too can work on things?" Work on things? They're newlyweds. They haven't even had their actual wedding ceremony yet. But whoa, it's not only a sign that there were problems from the get-go. It shows that JP was involving other people in their five week marriage and in Micah's private health issues with a person who was not family, by the way.

In our opinions, this is just more evidence of how JP catastrophizes things when it comes to Micah.

A single undated text about Micah trying to see a doctor of her own choosing. That was JP's proof of her chaotic upbringing. Keep that instinct in mind because it runs straight into the next set of exhibits. GPs text about Micah's medication. And we'll be right back. What a British lawyer is so cruel to her, a family name, a country, a family. And if you're the Duke of Hellstead, a little bit of a period between the two of us.

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“Where are the two of us from Athens? And where do we find ourselves in the same room?”

Of course, in Europe, Sarium is in the house with the highest room in the world. Many thousand friends were waiting for them with a brother and brother-in-law in the house. The VL Rosario D.E. They're discussing Micah's lithium dosage with a man named Derek. Not a man that you'll find on any medical license that we could match.

Two things to hold on to while you listen.

“First, these texts are from December 2022.”

Weeks after the big blowup incident, and inside the exact window when federal prosecutors now alleged that JP's campaign against Micah began.

And second, Micah's list accused JP of medical abuse, of declaring her bipolar, of forcing his own lithium prescription on her.

JP filed those texts to prove that he was managing his wife's care. Listen to what they actually show. In the affidavit, JP goes on to say that after the December 15 email the doctor, he doesn't give a name, put Micah in a mental hospital. He provides no exhibit to prove this. Then he says that Micah was discharged and then re-emitted because her sisters allegedly convinced her not to take her prescribed medication. Again, he provides no exhibit. No admission or discharge forms, no prescription history, no text between Micah and her sisters.

Then he says, quote, "The doctors then prescribed lithium, a lands of pain, limotra gene, cerequil, and other medications over the years, but lithium has been the best and most consistent." He sites three pieces of evidence to support this. One of them has been sealed. One of the exhibits is a string of texts with a guy named Derek with no explanation as to who Derek is. On December 20, 2022, Derek texted JP and said, "He just got off the phone with someone named Dr. Lynn. And she recommended starting Micah on 300 milligrams of lithium twice per day, with a follow-up office visit in two weeks."

So, this is after Micah was hospitalized at Wakuma in November 2022. Reminder. JP had to be stopped by the police because Micah's sister, you know, sister who didn't care about Micah's health according to JP, had brought Micah to the hospital and that's not what JP apparently wanted. The hospital and EMT said Micah appeared to be drugged, and JP was trying to drive away with Micah before police stopped him. On the day she was discharged, Micah appears to have signed a health care, power of attorney giving JP decision-making power over her medical care.

So, this is a few weeks after that. Derek insists text to JP by saying that they can come pick up a lab order after JP and Micah get back from "the trip."

And Derek writes back that this dosage of lithium they're prescribing for Micah is the lowest treatment to host, and it might need to be increased depending on her lithium levels. According to these texts, Micah was also on SIPREXO, which is a drug used to treat bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, and Micah had been taking 450 milligrams of lithium once a day for the past five years.

“So, since 2017, which let's talk about that. A drug that can be used to treat both bipolar and schizophrenia.”

Is it possible that JP saw the drug's applications and calmed on to the words schizophrenia? Is it possible that he then cultivated that word and used it with new doctors and new hospitals telling them that this was part of Micah's diagnosis? And then it just sort of stuck? Not sure, but those are questions worth asking. Again, we have no idea who Derek is, there is a family practitioner in Mertal Beach, whose first name is Derek, but we don't know if that's him. So, if you have any ideas about who JP was texting, please feel free to email us.

The third piece of evidence he's given is an email from Allegedly Micah. I say Allegedly Micah because this email includes the word "so" with 5 O's, which might seem familiar if you remember Micah's obituary, where it said that Micah was so close to her family. That's so adding a bit of sarcasm. And obviously, it is believed that JP wrote that obituary. Anyway, this email was written in February 2018, and the name of the recipient has been redacted, but the subject line says, "Hello, doctor, please read with an old school frowny face emoji."

“Allegedly Micah tells the doctor that she read their review on bipolar medication. That she was recently diagnosed with bipolar 1, which lets talk about that real quick, bipolar 1 means that a person has had at least one manic episode in their life.”

A manic episode being a disruptive period in which someone is experiencing an elevated or irritable mood and high energy. It's usually associated with out of character behavior. With this, comes depression. That's how Micah didn't use the word schizophrenia when she was talking about her diagnosis. Even though JP says, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia directly after her breast augmentation surgery. According to several sources online, people with bipolar 1 can live normal lives. And you likely know someone who has it because about three out of every 100 people have this diagnosis. Allegedly Micah tells this unknown doctor that she had a manic episode and was hospitalized where she had been put on 600 milligrams of lithium, but because her body wasn't metabolizing it properly, they had reduced her dose to 300 milligrams.

Lately, she says, "I am so depressed and they can't figure out what to do." Any advice she asks, "I'm crying as I write this email as I have no clue how to help myself because I'm so depressed."

I feel like there's no hope for a normal life. Please comment back with anything that can help my situation. So again, this is less than three months after her initial issue. According to her family, Micah was normal and healthy before her December 1st, 2017 surgery. And in three months' time, she was already, if we're to believe, she wrote the email, "Feeling desperate." In his affidavit, JP goes on to say that Micah has been diagnosed "many times" and that the most consistent diagnoses were schizophrenia and bipolar 2 was severe staccosis.

As evidence of this, he included three exhibits. One remained sealed. The other two are a collection of bills. One exhibit includes three bills from South Strand Medical Center for unspecified services.

The other is from Grand Strand Behavioral Health. Again, for unspecified services, the bills are dated January 1st, 2023, January 16th, 2023, January 19th, 2023 and March 10, 2024.

“And they total up to more than $5,000. Now again, where did schizophrenia and bipolar 2 was severe staccosis come from? Is it contained in one of the sealed pieces of evidence?”

Because these bills tell us absolutely nothing except that Micah was an American woman with medical debt. JP didn't go on to say that Micah's medical records reside at four different hospitals, which JP was fighting for control of Micah's state and fighting the public perception that he contributed to her death.

But we don't believe the picture that JP has been trying to paint here. Because it feels like the things he considered to be signs of Micah's mental illness were actually signs that Micah was not acting according to his rules. But his expectations.

“Who was Derek? Well, two years later, we still don't know. And that's the point. Micah's health care ran through channels that JP controlled on timelines that JP set documented and texts that JP kept.”

But nothing in those files shows you the machinery of control like what comes next. Twenty-one days after Micah's surgery. Nine days before their church wedding.

Days after a bipolar diagnosis that her family says came out of nowhere. At 8.33 pm on December 22nd, 2017, JP sent his new wife a three-page email titled "Our Life." A content note before we play this. This is manipulation in its purest form, and it might be triggering for anyone who has experienced abuse. David will read as JP.

“Okay, let's talk about what else happened in December 2017 in the days between Micah's surgery and her church wedding.”

So just 21 days after her surgery and soon after this alleged mental health incident.

And just nine days before their church wedding, JP decided to quote unquote "help Micah." He wrote in his affidavit that on this day in December, quote, "Well, Micah was back in the mental institute. I gathered from professionals on how to take care of her. I emailed her about the details of the event because she wasn't in her right mind." And quote, "Think about this." She had, according to JP's own evidence, just been diagnosed with bipolar one. Bipolar is a disorder that can often be managed with medication and/or therapy.

According to accounts from our family, Micah had been a healthy young woman before this surgery.

And yet JP appears to have decided that this was his own personal, Chernobyl. It was an opportunity for him to hammer Micah in an opportunity for him to assert himself as the ultimate authority over her life. According to the exhibit, JP sent this email titled "Our Life" to Micah at 833 p.m. on December 22, 2017. The email is 3 pages long and divided into 5 sections, one our future, two the past 10 days, three help for the real world and five the truth. To us, this email reads like a manifesto to Micah, who he is already legally married to.

To convince her that she is bipolar and that this is dire, to put on the record that he is a loving and supporting husband,

“to gently remind her how little control she has over her own life right now, and that she should get used to all of this because this is how her life is going to be like now.”

That is how it reads to us, but we're going to go through this letter and y'all can decide for yourselves, context is key here. Again, a reminder, this is triggering content for anyone who has ever experienced abuse. Here is David reading as JP. Hey, baby, this has probably been the most difficult time of my life. I don't know what I'm emailing you for other than to help explain in words what has happened and how I feel and how much I love you. One, our future.

Let me say first that many doctors and nurses and caseworkers and friends with experience and being in relationship with someone who is bipolar have all been preparing me for what could be the worst case scenario. One of your nurses even told me, quote, you may only see the wife who you married once every several months. Her personality disorder could regularly become someone who you don't even know and quote, they have warned me about making sure you take your medicine. They warned me about your water intake and helping you get proper sleep and how I may have to watch you and take care of you the rest of your life.

What they mean is that it is difficult to love someone who doesn't love you back in the same way that they did before they had the psychotic episode.

They tell me that there's a chance that I would have to hold back secrets and intimate things that I would normally share with you in fear that you could repeat it in irrational settings or in public. They told me about cases where people have ran outside naked or where the bipolar patient thinks that their spouse is crazy. There have been so many different scenarios that I have been warned about.

“I honestly can't even begin to express the weight of all that we both may have to bear in our future because of this vicious attack from the enemy.”

The devil is a liar. Okay, we need to pause because as hard as it is to stomach this man's words, it is also important that we look at what he is doing here to manipulate micah so that we can identify similar patterns of abuse in our own lives.

Notice how important it is for him to communicate to micah how her mental illness affects his life and how ultimately she needs to know that she is the burden in this relationship.

“This is the controlling part of coercive control. In order for an abuser to gain control over their partner, they have to ensure that the power dynamics of the relationship are unequal.”

For a richards, as a world-renowned expert on coercive control, who you can hear on episodes 62 and 86 of cup of justice defines controlling behaviors as a range of acts designed to make a person's subordinate and/or dependent by isolating them from sources of support.

And their resources and capacities for personal gain depriving them of the means needed for independence, resistance and escape in regulating their everyday behavior.

So I'm so glad you're spotlighting coercive control, with micah's case and unfortunately it's too late for micah and many women across the world because we know that coercive control does correlate significantly with suicide, with homicide and with familiar side.

“And when I first started to realize that actually there was something much more insidious than what we understand when we use the term domestic abuse, I was reviewing lots of murders of women and some suicides as well as murders of children.”

And I was understanding that actually often women become in trapped. It's not just about a physical act that happens, it's about the psychological and the emotional entrapments, but also wider society that keeps her in trapped. The gender inequality and it was when I was working at New Scotland Yard that I became aware of it from reviewing lots of the murders and realizing it was much more like the spiders web that kept her woman in trapped and that she, people would say well she kept going back Laura, she kept going back to him and I would look at the reasons for why she would go back and I would see that on average it would be about seven times.

She would love that individual but she wanted the abuse to stop but it was all the other things that kept her in trapped. I either the abuse got worse when she left and that people would tell her to go back that she wouldn't have her own financial independence that the children would also keep her in trapped. So actually I started to realize there was something far more insidious at play. You'll be right back. Just on Netflix.

Laura Richards defines coercive behavior as a continuing act or the pattern of acts of assault threats humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm punish or frighten the victim.

“Continuing patterns of acts used to humiliate and intimidate and frighten the victim. Remember that in this part of the letter.”

JP is saying things that I'm sure terrified Micah. He is saying one, you are going to have to depend on me for the rest of your life. Two, if you question me ever, your opinion doesn't matter because you are now bipolar. Three, you will always be the burden and you will always only do to the suffering that your illness has caused me. In the next paragraph, he continues to drive fear and to Micah when he says quote or if things got so tough that if you were in a place to where I could only visit you one hour a week for the rest of our life, which is what one of the nurses said could possibly happen and quote.

“Laura Richards defines coercive control as quote, a strategic pattern of behavior designed to exploit control and create dependency and dominate.”

I want you to also keep that in mind while you are listening to the rest of this letter, some of which we will paraphrase to keep you all from puking. The next few paragraphs of section one show what Laura Richards calls love bombing an effective tactic of coercive control used by the abuser to entrap their partner through fake charm. He says quote, "I want you to know I will always be true to you. I will always love you. I will always take care of you. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how much a cost, no matter how much counseling I need, no matter what you want or what you think or what you are, I will always love you.

I will always bite my very best to honor you for the rest of my life. Now, the next section is titled The Last 10 Days, which takes us back to December 12.

“Micah had breast augmentation surgery December 1st, so December 12 would be around the time that GP claims Micah had her post surgery infection, which could have caused her a fever and/or hallucinations. Here is David reading S.J.P.”

This has been hell. It's almost impossible to explain to you in a way where you would understand the pain, because the sickness that is attacking you is in the area of your mental consciousness. I hope you can follow this, because you weren't able to rationalize what is rational. No amount of rationalism would help, smiley face. What I mean is, all of the pain, fear, difficulty, exhaustion, dealing with your family, doctors, nurses, caseworkers, your boss, lawyers, etc.

Is something that you may never understand, and I want to share everything with you, the triumphs and the tragedies.

My hope is that you can look back and say, "I can't believe I showed the nurses and doctor and security guard my boobs." I can't believe I would sing everything is opposite when you believe in God every five minutes. I can't believe I was more concerned with my makeup than I was getting out of that facility, and many, many, many more things that the old Micah would have understood. I want you to see that this was the scariest thing of our entire lives. Again, JP is reminding Micah how much of a burden she is to him, and he is suddenly reminding her that she owes him.

For the inconvenience that she has caused him, he really wants her to know how much this caused him. Again, this email is just a tiny digital footprint of their relationship that JP believes shows that he was a great husband, imagine what their day-to-day off the record communications were like. If this is how he spoke to his wife on the record in the newlywed phase, back to the December 2017 email, JP hints that Micah might have gaps in her memory from this time, and he makes sure to remind her of some of the embarrassing things he did, and then it gets weirder.

A black sheriff pulled up in a van, and they had me escort you into a metal box all alone.

I watched this van drive off with my wife, and all I could do was sit in the ER waiting room and cry for two hours. They then told me that I could only see you for two hours every Saturday. This has all been documented in group texts with your family.

“What was he talking about? Why did they go to an ER in Conway when they live much closer to Grand Strand, a bigger and better known hospital? And why did he say black sheriff like an African American deputy? Why is that relevant?”

Had him escort Micah into a metal box all alone? What does he mean in ambulance? Why are there no records of this incident? And why is he mentioning that this is documented in group texts with her family?

Does that mean that Micah was already doubting his accounts of reality? The bigger question is did any of this actually happen to Micah?

And if it did, she did have this very serious mental health incident involving police, then how on earth was she able to buy a gun a few years later? Okay, guys, we're still in section two, believe it or not.

“And it's still getting weirder. He goes on to shame her even more.”

I called lawyers, doctors, friends, etc. And the more I try to get you back to normal, the happier you were at that facility. The pain of hearing you say that you enjoyed where you were and you wanted to stay there for months rather than come home was the most painful thing I've ever heard. Can you fathom that pain? I'm not telling you this for you to feel bad, not at all. I'm telling you this because I want to share everything with you. I want so badly for you to look back and say, "Wow, that was crazy!" I want us to laugh of this one day. Finally, I was working with Redacted Dame to get all of this taken care of, but you informed her about how much money you make, how the church pays our house, etc.

“When sending her our 2016 financials and November 2017 is all she needs. I guess I'm just saying, I hate feeling like we aren't on the same team.”

I want to be on your team and I want you on my team. I want you next to me in everything I do. I love you, Mike Miller. Can you fathom that pain? Yeah, I'm sure Mike could, and sadly she will never be able to laugh about this because what happened to her in December 2017 was the first dominant of following a series of events that led to her death. Lastly, in this never ending section of this never ending email, JP tells Mike that he had been working with a person named Redacted on finances, perhaps taxes, and that Mike had told this person too much information about how the church pays for our house.

And he's saying this because he quote "wants them to be on the same team." It sounds like, and who knows, maybe I'm stretching here, but it sounds like JP is telling Mike that she's already spelling too many secrets when it comes to their finances, and that means she's crazy, and he's been medicated ASAP for the sake of their marriage. Section 3 is titled "Help." And thank goodness, it is much shorter. He tells Mike that they need a "help" team and their lives, and then suggests a couple whose names are redacted because they have experience with someone in their family with bipolar disorder.

Notice the last few sentences of this paragraph.

Item 3, "Help." I don't want to be the one who always corrects you. I don't want to spend the rest of our life telling you if something sounds irrational or unhealthy.

So, I would like for us to use redacted couple name. They have someone in their family who suffers from bipolar. In fact, redacted name had to spend most of his childhood, making sure that his mother took her medicine or else she would do very, very embarrassing things.

He says the word embarrassing multiple times in this letter, like he wanted to make sure that she felt deep shame for what she didn't remember.

The next section of this letter, which again, is an exhibit that J.P. included in an attempt to show the core and/or maybe show the world that he was a good husband. This next section is titled The Real World, where he mansplains the movie a beautiful mind to Micah.

“And basically says your mind doesn't work now, so you have to listen to me. And by the way, it is the devil who is doing this to you. And as the man, I'll make the devil pay for this. Here is just a part of that. So y'all get the gist.”

Item 4, The Real World. I can't imagine thinking the sky is blue and having everyone around me tell me it is pink. To me, that's a fair analogy to describe your pain and confusion.

Everything in you and all you feel and know and fathom is telling you that the sky is blue. And then you have myself and these strangers who are called doctors telling you the sky is pink. I am so sorry for all of this. I am so sorry that you have had to go through this of all the sicknesses or issues that the enemy could attack us with. This is more severe than I would have concocted on my scariest day.

“To attack your mind is not something I take lightly. The devil will pay for this. I will not allow him to win in any way.”

The final section of this December 22nd 2017 email is mostly full of the same fluff and ironically called the truth. The truth is I am scared. I feel all alone. I feel like I'm fighting a battle in which I'm the only soldier and my co-capton has left me. I am worried about the future. I am worried about my kids. I am worried about our finances. I am worried and concerned deeply about us. I have prayed like never before. I have cried like never before. I want to say I've stood strong in the faith. But the truth is I don't know if you are going to be okay. I don't know if I'm going to have my real wife back.

I don't know how to even explain to you all my concerns. I feel like somehow I deserve this. I can't help but think that this is my lot in life.

“And I will have to live for the next 50-60 years with the burden of making sure you take your medicine or don't do anything that you would regret when you are in a sane mood or mindset. These fears have consumed me lately.”

There is that word again, burden. He is crystal clear with her. Micah is the burden in this relationship. JP is the hero. And Micah should be very afraid about what is going to happen to her. However, he goes on to say but good news. I'm not going to leave you. He said he is going to make her life great. And will spend the rest of his life fighting for her. He ends a letter saying I am your husband and your best friend and I will always be that for you. For better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health till death do as part. I give you this promise, your husband, JP.

More on that after a quick commercial break, we will be right back. What a British lawyer is so cruel, a family name, a country, a family. And if you are the Duke of Hellstead, a little bit of an empire under the influence of the country. But even though it is now just the empire of the Waxen, it is a little bit of Italy. There is only one heart. Italy is a wonderful business partner, the German, the German. The German. The German. Two now. Only on Netflix. So, even though they are legal, marriage occurred a month earlier. Just a few days after JP sent this email, Micah and JP were publicly married in a formal ceremony in front of friends and family at Solid Rock.

Withing carefully to their boughs.

But we shall be that.

“Okay, so I promised to always strive to continuously YouTube this.”

I promised to always support the enthusiastic personality, the promise to remain faithful, loyal and encouraging

team. And I promised to strive to look in the white rice. Love the church and gain self-love. Unfortunately, as evidenced in JP's own emails and text messages provided in Probe documents, many of these vows would soon be broken.

“The first couple of Solid Rock began their marriage on shaky grounds. As picture perfect as JP and Micah looked in black and white, celebrating their relationship in front of their loved ones on December 31, 2017,”

very few people would know that Micah had recently undergone surgery, suffered serious complications from that surgery, and was struggling with a very recent bipolar diagnosis, and the medication her husband, so badly wanted her to be on.

Now, that explosive email that we just shared from December 2017 was only the 10th of approximately 65 pieces of evidence JP shared in the shocking at the day that, and it gets worse.

So, much worse. Just a few days after their ceremony, JP wrote Micah a shocking and scathing email where he point blank says to Micah, "It actually engers me at how selfish and ungodly the desire for you to come off your medication actually is."

“That is followed by an entire essay of JP pleading with Micah to take lithium, the medicine that she was just prescribed according to his own timeline just a month before.”

These pieces of evidence that JP dumped in the Probe file tell us more about what actually went on between Micah and JP in the years leading up to her death.

JP even included an email that he suspiciously sent Micah within the hour that please say that she died on April 27, 2024, which we will talk about next week. A dark detailed and insidious picture of Micah's marriage to JP is emerging from these documents, and we will not look away until we see accountability. On the day of her wedding to JP, Micah's fate had already been sealed. Every step Micah took toward the altar with a step closer to her own grave. Every day of her marriage meant another shovel full of dirt coming her way, and every time Micah managed to dig her way out and started to see the light again.

There was JP standing and waiting for her. Ironically, the evidence JP provided in the Probe file, the evidence that he thought would exonerate him, could actually end up helping the FBI and its investigation. Which, according to our sources, is still very much active and includes a wide scope well beyond solid rocks church financials. We see you, JP, clearer than we have ever seen you before, and we believe that the FBI sees you too. Our life. That is what JP titled it. But go back through those three pages and count how many sentences are actually about Micah's life, her health, her fears, her future.

It is a letter about his burden, his emotional needs, his warnings from unnamed professionals, sent to a 24-year-old, three weeks post surgery, newly diagnosed and secretly married to her pastor, who she met when she was a teenager. That email was exhibit number 10 of 65, and JP filed it believing that it made him look good. That's what makes these probate documents so important and so chilling.

We have so much more to cover on this case. We have more from the probate documents, believe it or not. Like the email where JP calls Micah's desire to come off her medication selfish and ungodly.

Then we have the emails and records at the center of the medical abuse allegations, who was prescribing, who was monitoring, and who doctor shady is. Then we will get to the death of Chris Kiner, and more on what led up to Micah's alleged suicide attempt.

“Then the knock on JP Miller's door, and the FBI suddenly enters the chat, until then, stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight.”

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What a British shark is so rare, a family name, a country, a family, and when you are the Duke of Hellstead, a little bit of an empire and with it, even though it was a war, now only the empire is in vain.

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