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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of
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the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and we
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are back with the part three of the Mike and
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Miller series as part of our Exposed Investigates series. And
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the last time that I left you, the Micah Miller
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case was really heating up. Please had determined and issued
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a statement in conjunction with the medical examiner for Myrtle
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Beach that had determined Mike and Miller's death to be
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a suicide. And in addition, the police issued a report
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of the movements of JP Miller and that wasn't an
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effort to tamp down the massive amount of chatter online
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that he killed Micah Miller. Now they released pictures of
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his vehicle being taken from a license plate reader, nowhere
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near Micah Miller's death scene, if you will. They spoke
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to witnesses who cooborated his attendance at a athletic event
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the evening prior and he was out of town and
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one of those pictures from the license plate cameras even
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showed his vehicle well away from the state park at
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the time. Micah was actually making the alleged suicide golf,
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so JP Miller. He gets an attorney who releases a statement,
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and I have that statement in front of me. I'm
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going to read it to you real quick. It's dated
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May ninth of twenty twenty four and it says clarification
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regarding the passing of Mica Miller. The law Offices of
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Russell B. Long On, behalf of our client, Pastor John
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Paul Miller, issues this press release to clarify the circumstances
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surrounding the tragic passing of Micah Miller. Following the untimely
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death of Michael Miller, unfounded rumors and false accusations began
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circulating on social media and various media outlets suggesting Pastor
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Miller's involvement in her demise. This created a buzz, causing
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local and national media outlets to begin periphilating these falsehoods
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on a mammoth proportion. Our client refutes any report that
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suggests he ever abused his wife. Recent reports claimed that
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Pastor Miller groomed his wife from the age of ten,
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and that could not be further from the truth. She
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moved to Myrtle Beach at the age of fifteen, was
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married to another man at the age of eighteen, and
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divorced at the age of twenty one. It has come
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to light that Micah Miller has struggled with mental illness,
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specifically bipolar disorder, which, when not properly managed, led to
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paranoid episodes in self destructive behavior. Again, Micah suffered from
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mental illness in some reports made by her in the
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recent past or nonsensical. This unfortunate reality underscores the importance
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of destigmatizing mental health issues and ensuring those affected receive
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appropriate support and treatment. We wish to emphasize that after
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a thorough investigation by the Robison County, North Carolina Sheriff's Office,
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it has been conclusively determined that Miss Miller's death was
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the result of a self inflicted gunshot wound. This finding
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completely exonerates Pastor Miller of any wrongdoing. These baseless claims
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and false reporting have caused immense distress and to Pastor
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Miller and his family and needs to stop immediately. We
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hear by demand that all individuals and media outlets cease
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and desist from perpetrating these harmful falsehoods. Any further dissemination
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of defamatory and livest statements will be met with legal action.
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A complete inventory of these defamatory and libelist statements has
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been conducted. Those that have to date violated Pastor Miller's
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right to live in peace and more than the passing
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of his wife, respectively, will be held accountable. Those that
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choose to allow any previously posted or published false statements
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about Pastor Miller to remain in the public domain can
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expect to be served with civil litigation against them individually
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and when appropriate, their media organizations and managerial supervisors can
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expect the same. We all have the right to free speech,
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but not speech which is false and harmful to the
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subject of that speech. Many media outlets have reached out
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to Pastor Miller for comment, and we direct all future
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requests for comment to be directed to Attorney Russell by
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Long and his Myrtle Beach office. We appreciate your cooperation
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in respecting Pastor Miller's right to grieve and mourn his
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wife's passing without undue interference and slander. In its signed
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Russell by Long so jp Miller ramp it up and
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threatening those who he says were slandering him or may
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plan on slandering him in the future. So Michael Miller's
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family now, regardless of what they believe the final outcome
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was as it relates to the cause of death of
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Michael Miller, they certainly, like most of us, if not
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all of us, believe that J. P. Miller was possibly
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complicit in it due to the massive amount of abuse
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he threw her way, allegedly, So they get their own attorney,
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a lady by the name of Gina Ward, and she
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takes to the media regardless of that statement, I just
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read you and she spoke on behalf of the family.
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And here's what that sounded like.
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That she was brainwashed by this man. He abused her
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in every possible way that there is. Financially, he abused
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her by taking away things phones, access to money, took
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away her car, those types of things to try to
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gain control of her. Every time she tried to leave him,
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he would harass and stalk her to the point that
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she just felt like she had to give up and
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go back. And he abused her not only emotionally financially,
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he abused her religiously in terms of her religion and
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her relationship with God.
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So then the very next day, the Daily Mail drops
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a bombshell when an article is released with the headline reading, quote,
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Michah Miller's pastor husband accused by ex wife of committing
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sex acts with their children and being addicted to prostitutes.
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So what's all this about? Well, the Daily Mail got
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their hands on documents from JP Miller's divorce back in
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twenty seventeen and they put out an article and the
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claims are extremely disturbing. Here's how it reads. The first
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wife of Michah Miller's pastor husband accused him of committing
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sex acts with children under sixteen and having an addiction
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to prostitutes and explosive divorce papers unearthed by Dailymail dot com.
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JP Miller also started an affair with Micah, who at
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the time was the couple's babysitter and the wife of
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best friend Jeremy Deese. His ex Allison said in an
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affidavit from twenty seventeen, referring to events two years earlier, quote,
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our marriage and my husband's career were less than stable
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at the time because at the time my husband's affair
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was discovered, he had previously admitted to both me and
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our congregation that he had an addiction to prostitution. Allison
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wrote this in the affidavit to support her bid for alimanny.
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She went on to say he had also confessed to
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me and other staff members of the church that he
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had sexual encounters with young females from the church who
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were under the age of sixteen. When the defendant affair
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was discovered, the church leaders demanded that the defendancy counseling
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for sexual addiction. She added, when he refused, the majority
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of our church left the congregation. Public records show that
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Miller married his first wife in February of two thousand,
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and the pair started Solid Rock Ministries together shortly afterwards.
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She filed for divorce in twenty fifteen, with paper stating
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that Miller moved out of the family home on June
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twenty ninth of that year, the very same day that
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Micah left her marital home. In an affidavit dated June
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twenty seventeen, Miller's first wife said, our separation was a
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result of my discovering that the defendant was having an
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affair with the praise and worship leader in our church,
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who was also the weekly babysitter of our four children
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and the wife of his best friend. His marital misconduct
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not only destroyed my marriage, but also caused me to
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lose my church, family, and income, alomost severely damaging the
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relationship between the defendant and our children. The documents added
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that Miller allegedly confessed to his then wife and members
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of the church that he had sexual encounters with young
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females from the church who were under the age of sixteen.
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Allison's affidavit went on to say, I agreed to work
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with the defendant to reach an agreement on resolving the
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issues of our marriage and not seek an adultery divorce
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as an attempt to prevent him from having further damage
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in his career as a church pastor. Sources close to
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Micah's ex husband, Jeremy, who filed on the grounds that
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the marriage was quote forever broken, told dailymail dot Com
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that Miller was methodical in his betrayal of his wife
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and best friend. Micah's death had been ruled a suicide
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by officials, but those close to her are struggling to
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believe she would take her own life, with her family
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setting up a Justice for Micah campaign. The affair allegedly
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came to light after Miller and Micah were caught in
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a sexual act in twenty fifteen. One source said he
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had a way of taking over someone else's mind. Micah
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and Jeremy would spend a lot of time at the
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Miller household rehearsing the music for the church. It seemed
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kind of suspicious that they were always hanging out, always together.
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He always had them around. It was like JP did
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it underhandedly to subliminally get into her mind. Once everyone
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found out that he lied to our faces, we confronted him,
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and he sat there and denied it to our faces
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that he was just friends with Micah, and that was it.
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The source added the majority of the church left the
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congregation after that, and we were shocked when we saw
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him with Micah and that they had gotten engaged. They
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got married, and it destroyed a lot of people's lives.
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He had a wrap around his little finger. She would jump,
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even when she was married to Jeremy. He did it
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in such a sneaky way. And she was just a
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very sweet person. He's a very good talker and good
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about getting people to do things for him. But I
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saw red flags. Jeremy and Micah had just bought a house,
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and it tore the whole thing apart. At first, Jeremy
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carried on going to church because he just loved God
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and wanted to support the cause, but eventually he stopped going.
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Documents also show a bitter battle between Miller and his
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first wife over alimanny payments and child support following their
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The couple initially signed a final divorce agreement, which ruled
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that Miller would pay twelve hundred dollars in child support
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and one thy one hundred dollars in alimaney. Miller assured
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his ex wife that she and the children would have
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the means to live in the marital home until the
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youngest of their four children turned eighteen. He only made
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one payment before saying he could no longer afford the
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court ordered amount. Bizarrely, he claimed he had fallen out
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of a tree and broke his legs while trying for
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reconciliation with Allison. He ended up appearing in court in
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a wheelchair. The couple made an agreement to temporarily drop
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the child support payments to nine hundred dollars a month
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when Miller argued he should not have to pay alimoney
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because of an error in the divorce paperwork, and after
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a five month legal battle was launched in November of
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twenty sixteen. Miller eventually paid thirty three hundred dollars in
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alimony in twenty seventeen. That's the whole year of twenty seventeen, y'all. However,
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his ex wife accused him of manipulating his income from
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the church, claiming it's hard to understand how he suddenly
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is making less money now with every aspect of the
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ministry having improved. Allison has also accused him of buying
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a boat a motorcycle in a golf court, adding I
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do not understand how he can have these things but
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not afore being able to pay alimony. Allison said she
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had to borrow fifteen thousand dollars from her father because
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Miller had been failing to pay the agreed amounts. Miller
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responded in the filing by saying he gave her everything
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in the hope that they would reconcile, Claiming he had
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no money and no place to stay. He added that
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his ex wife allegedly screamed and cussed in front of
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the parishioners and harassed him when dropping off the children.
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Miller claimed her boyfriend threatened him several times. He rebated
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claims that he was earning more than ever in twenty seventeen,
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saying the stress of finances is unbearable, claiming to have
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borrowed twenty thousand dollars from friend. The matter was ultimately resolved,
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with Miller agreeing to pay alimony in child support to
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his ex wife. When approached by the Dailymail dot Com,
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Miller's ex wife declined to comment, saying she was hunkered
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down and staying quiet for the protection of her children.
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Court records also hinted the issues within the marriage, with
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Micah's first filing for divorce back in October of twenty
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twenty three, before withdrawing the filing on February twelfth. Later
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that same month, Miller filed against his ex wife for
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separate support and maintenance in emotion, withdrawn on March eleventh,
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But on April fifteenth, just twelve days before Micah was
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found dead, Michah filed once more, and, according to friends,
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also sought a no contact order against her husband. Police
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released images and audio of Miller leading up to her
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death amid conjecture about the circumstances. The speculation was partly
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fueled by a bizarre video Miller's husband casually in forming
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his congregation of her death at the end of the service,
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and I played that for you guys last week. He
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said her passing was self induced. However, evidence released by
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Robinson County, North Carolina Sheriff's office as part of their
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investigation conclusively shows Miller plotting to end her life. Weeks
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before death, she had shared a video speaking about abuse
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within her marriage as claims emerged that she was being
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harassed and was afraid for her life. And I played
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you that club, she said, quote today, my heart's a
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little heavy. I've had a lot of women that have
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reached out to me about situations of abuse. And I
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just want to tell you what a lot of people
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have told me lately, because I think I forgot. But
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you are the bride of Christ before anyone else's male
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or female. It doesn't matter what gender you are. Abuse
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is abuse, and I mean totally disturbing jet right there,
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and it does not end there. A video is also released.