Murdaugh Murders Podcast - TSP #64 - 'How Selfish And Ungodly’: What JP Miller’s ‘Evidence’ Says About Mica’s Mental Health (Part Two) + Murdaugh Update

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

Investigative reporters Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell continue their look into the Mica Francis case with Part Two of their deep dive into the pile of “evidence” her estranged husband — Myrtle Beach Pastor JP Miller — filed in her probate case.  The evidence was meant to support JP’s claims that he was a good husband and not the cause of Mica’s death this past spring. Instead, Mandy and Liz are finding that the evidence — when pieced together — provides a disturbing look at the early days of the couple’s marriage. From the very beginning, JP seems to have seized on Mica’s alleged bipolar disorder diagnosis and appears to have used it as a way to contain and control Mica.  Also on today’s episode, the Alex Murdaugh Clown Show is coming back to town. This week, jilted Juror 785 and Juror 630 make their television premier as they help Team Murdaugh manipulate the headlines ahead of Alex’s hearing in the state Supreme Court for his conviction murder conviction appeal. We are also very excited for our Cups Up At Coco’s On The Beach September 28th at 5pm. We’ll toast Cups Up to Summer with a little low-key summer beach bash, book signing, and happy hour. Mix, mingle and bring your copy of Blood On Their Hands to get it signed. We’ll share some laughs, and raise a toast to a wildly busy summer. Stay Tuned, Stay Pesky and Stay in the Sunlight...☀️ Join Luna Shark Premium today at Lunashark.Supercast.com. Premium Members also get access to searchable case files, written articles with documents, case photos, episode videos and exclusive live experiences with our hosts on lunasharkmedia.com all in one place. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3BdUtOE. Premium Episode Resources: Cup of Justice 95 Mica Francis Case Episode Playlist Matthew Farwell Federal Indictment In Sandra Birchmore Killing Former Massachusetts Police Officer Arrested in Connection with Murder of Young Woman Mica's List If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. What We're Buying... Hungry Root - https://hungryroot.com/mandy to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies.. Hungry Root is the easiest way to eat healthy. They send you fresh, high-quality groceries, simple, delicious recipes, and essential supplements. CBDistillery - https://cbdistillery.com with code “COJ” for 20% off. No fluff. No fillers. Just pure, effective cannabinoid products. Over 43,000 Verified Reviews. 60-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Free Shipping Over $75. Subscribe & Save Up To 30% Task Rabbit - Use promo code "mandy" at https://www.taskrabbit.com/ for 15% off your task. Task Rabbit connects you with skilled Taskers to help with cleaning, moving, furniture assembly, home repairs, and more. Here's a link to some of our favorite things: https://amzn.to/4cJ0eVn And a special thank you to our other amazing sponsors: Microdose.com, PELOTON, and VUORI. Use promo code "MANDY" for a special offer! *** ALERT: If you ever notice audio errors in the pod, email [e-mail] and we'll send fun merch to the first listener that finds something that needs to be adjusted! *** For current & accurate updates: TrueSunlight.com facebook.com/TrueSunlightPodcast/ Instagram.com/TrueSunlightPod Twitter.com/mandymatney Twitter.com/elizfarrell youtube.com/@LunaSharkMedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In October, we're off to the Midwest with stops at Mizzou, Indiana University Bloomington, and possibly more. Visit our events page, lunasharkmedia.com, slash events, where you can learn about the upcoming in-person and virtual appearances. Learn more at lunasharkmedia.com. In the last few weeks, these episodes on Micah have hit us in increasingly personal and upsetting ways. Our whole team has felt this as we catch ourselves needing more and more mental health breaks

to pause and to cry while piecing together the new evidence and making sense of the larger picture. However, we have been overwhelmed with the feedback on these last few episodes, specifically all of the messages we have received from women who either have experienced coercive control or know someone who has. We see y'all sharing these episodes everywhere

on social media, telling people that these episodes are important for understanding coercive control and finding solutions to fix it. And we just want to start this episode out by saying thank you for listening no matter how tough it gets. Thank you for getting angry and heartbroken over what Micah went through. Thank you to those of y'all who have told us these episodes have motivated you to start advocating for change. We see you. We hear you.

We are so thankful that you are here. You understand how important this topic is no matter how difficult it is to hear sometimes. We got several comments from listeners last week saying that for some reason, episode 63 was the toughest one to listen to out of all of the True Sunlight and Murdoch Murders Podcast episodes. I mentioned this on Twitter and Instagram, how it is unreal that JP's episodes feel more upsetting in a lot of ways than many of the Elick Murdoch, Corey Fleming, and Russell LaFeed episodes.

What they did to people was terrible. So why are the JP Miller episodes hitting us harder? So many women spoke up and collectively said the same thing. It's because women know JP's moves all too well. Most women either know someone who has experienced coercive control or have experienced it themselves. One listener put this perfectly.

She said, quote, You have to survive your own trauma to be triggered. None of us have been murdered. Few of us have been robbed by our lawyers. All of us have been gaslit, made out to be the crazy ones, or controlled by little men like JP. It's not so much, I think, that Ellic Mardoch's crimes were worse, just that JP's are universal to women. Whew! That hit me like a ton of bricks.

But also feels validating, like there is a reason and a purpose for all the rage that we are feeling after hearing what JP did to Micah. We encourage all of you who are left with rage and sadness at the end of these episodes to listen to COJ episode 95 where we talked with Senator Katrina Shealy about how to pass laws to save women like Micah in the future. So, unfortunately, before we get back to JP, we have another update in the Murdoch case. And it is important,

since we are seeing the wheels of the pro-Murdoch PR machine spinning yet again. And we need to let y'all know what exactly is going on. If you don't know by now, our position on the South Carolina Supreme Court's decision to allow Ehrlich to bypass the Court of Appeals in his murder case is, um, okay. And in contrast to what seems like most of the media right now, we just don't see it as a sign that he is any more likely to get a new trial than he was before their decision to take the case. That said, get ready for some serious deja vu because The Clown Show is officially back

in town. Over the past few weeks, we have noticed a resurgence in the pro-Ellic Murdoch trolls. They still believe that he was robbed of a fair trial because of Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill. Which fine, we'll give them this and it's pretty much exactly what Justice Jean Tolle wrote in her opinion denying Ellic a new trial. Becky should not have said anything to any juror about any aspect of the testimony during the trial. So we're all agreed, Becky did some dumb things. But she didn't tamper with the jury, at least not according to the evidence that has been made public.

Which brings us to the news of the week. And it's concerning the Egg Lady juror, also known as juror 785, Myra Crosby, and juror 630, Mandy Pierce. There, we can now say their names because they have finally put them on the public record. So why did they do that? Well, in part, to sell books. Duh. Remember back in the day when Dick and Jim's story was that the jurors came to speak to

them, and ostensibly not the other way around, to tell them about Becky's behavior because of Becky's book. That it had anchored them, and that that is the origin story of how the Becky jury tampering plot came together. First of all, what irony that one of Dick and Jim's jurors has now written a book. But also, stick a pin in that part about the origin story because I'm going to come back to that. Also, we're going to keep calling them by their juror numbers in addition to their names for consistency. So obviously, the headline game is being played again. It's the same tactic that Team Murdoch used leading up to the Justice Toll hearing in January. They were hoping that some of their overblown rhetoric about

Becky that the media was repeatedly eating up with a spoon would somehow resonate with justice toll or subconsciously seep into her soul to influence her decision. And now they're taking that same tactic with the state Supreme Court justices. You would think the media would be onto their games by now, but no, they're like, give me more distorted facts to publish. On Tuesday, Myra Crosby and Mandy Pierce appeared in the seventh episode of The Fall of the House of Murdock. The episode is titled, and I'm not kidding, from Egg to Zee. Zee being a reference to Jurr 630. The episode is live streaming on Fox Nation right now, and it went live on the very same

day that Myra's book was published. Her book, by the way, is called Juror 785 because enough is enough. A tell-all book on how Juror 785 was wrongfully kicked off the jury at the Alec Murdoch trial. We haven't read it, but if ever there was a title for a disgruntled manifesto of utter nonsense, there it is. Justice Tolle wouldn't allow Juror 785 to testify in Alec's hearing last January no matter how many times and how many different ways Dick and Jim asked for it. So isn't this convenient, right? Juror 785 wrote a book, launched on the same day as her appearance on Fox Nation, the pro-Ellic Murdoch channel that was also complicit in the launch of Ellic's announcement of jury

tampering claims last September. Here we go again. And for no good reason, because here's the thing that the pro-Ellic trolls forget. Juror 785's opinion shouldn't matter here. Not only did Dick and Jim not object to her dismissal, preserving it for the record, she didn't render a verdict. And she wasn't kicked off the jury because of that dumb Facebook post either. She was kicked off for talking about the case outside of the courtroom in violation of Judge Newman's repeated orders not to, which she denies doing, even though we know from the

SLED questionnaires that the other jurors had to tell Juror 785 to stop talking about the trial when they were writing to Moselle on March 1st. So we've got Becky saying that Juror 785 is lying, and Juror 785 is saying that Becky is lying, and also her tenants are lying, and Juror 785 is saying that Becky is lying, and also her tenants are lying, and also the anonymous person who sent the email to Judge Newman is lying. Neither woman is credible, so there. The point is, Juror 785 and the pro-Elec trolls cannot stop talking about the Facebook post

that didn't exist. Or that apparently did exist, but it was from the wrong ex-husband and about another juror. During the trial, a man named Lucas Pierce posted on Facebook, My ex-wife is on the jury. Not a secret. She's apparently telling everyone and is proud of it. I thought the jury wasn't supposed to use social media and talking about the case? Me and her don't talk at all, but Miss Mandy is telling everyone about this case and her feelings. He's already guilty just because he's a man?

Shaking my head. Y'all picked the wrong one. You heard that, right? Miss Mandy. As in Miss Mandy Pierce. As in Jurr 630. Lucas has posted a lot about this, accusing the AG's office, Sled and Becky, of a cover-up, and also accusing his ex-wife

of not being honest about her verdict. He says she was always going to vote guilty and that it's not true to say that Becky changed 630's mind and that she is basically conspiring with the defense team right now. The pro-Ellic trolls have seized on this a few times, contending that this is evidence of Juror 785 being selectively removed because the tip against her was investigated and the

tip about Mandy Pierce does not appear to have been, or at least not with the same publicly announced figure. They say this is proof that Becky was trying to rig the jury. But here's the thing, that alleged conversation about the Facebook page didn't come up with Juror 785, again, Becky denies having the conversation, until after Becky learned of the email to Judge Newman. Becky is alleged to have questioned Juror 785 before 785 went to talk to Judge Newman. But the way they're portraying it, at least on social media and in the Fox Nation show, is as if Becky was doing a check-in during the trial to see where old Myra Crosby's head was at. And that was not the case. Or at least that was never one of the

accusations. The truth seemed to be this. That Judge Newman was notified by the anonymous emailer about Juror 785 and that Becky conflated the Mandy Pierce tip with the emailer tip, thinking they both must be about the same person before realizing they were not. Now was the Mandy Pierce tip ever looked into? Juror 785 was removed the day before deliberation. So it's not clear when anyone understood that the Facebook tip was about Juror 785 was removed the day before deliberation. So it's not clear when anyone understood that the Facebook tip was about juror 630 before the trial was over.

So what do Myra Crosby and Mandy Pierce have to say for themselves? Well, let's talk about attorney Joe McCollough first. He is representing both of the jurors. Myra told Fox News that she sought Joe out because she at first wanted to keep everyone away from her after she was dismissed from the jury. Reminder, Joe McCollough sat in the courtroom

every single day of the jury selection and the trial. He says it was because he was working on a Hollywood screenplay, but several people have questioned whether he was actually there for Team Murdoch as a jury watcher. Oh, and another reminder, Joe McCollough and Dick Harputlian are best buds and weekly lunch pals.

Joe was also Connor Cook's attorney in the boat crash lawsuit. I have watched Joe in a bunch of Murdoch TV interviews, and I've never once seen him disclose his relationship with Dick when talking about the Murdochs, which seems important, right? He often positioned himself as a neutral party, but would insert all sorts of pro-Murdoch points

into his national interviews that have a lot less weight knowing that he's best buds with Dick. So that said, take the next thing I'm about to say with a grain of salt. In the Fox News doc, Joe is asked how he would respond to the notion that he is the tree shaker here, meaning that he was tasked with going to the jurors to see what he could find that would result in Ellic having a viable appeal for a new trial. Joe was like, I like shaken trees, the tree of fairness. He says Ellic, quote, who may be a murderer, did not get a fair trial. He then gives Martha the origin story of Becky's accusations.

Are you ready for it? He says Jurr 785 contacted him first and then Jurr 630 did, and it became clear to him that there were problems. Side note, we were told that Myra and Mandy P. I'm gonna call her that to take my name back and make it less confusing. Were quite the team in the jury room. The two of them seem to be super close to each other during the trial. And another thing, according to online documents, Mandy Pierce's address appears to be that

of a property owned by Myra's husband. In other words, there appears to be some tenant-landlord relationship here. So Joe claims that he knew that there were problems, but that he couldn't reveal this to the defense. He doesn't say that he didn't reveal it, by the way. He says that he couldn't. I'm not insinuating Joe did anything wrong. I am just pretending to be a lawyer and noting his language.

He says that Team Murdock reached out to him to tell him that they had begun to reach out to jurors and that they understood that he represented one of them. And Joe was like, actually guys, I have two. And that he was talking to other jurors as well. He then said he told Team Murdock that he would contact 785 and 630 to see if the jurors would be willing to talk with Team Murdock.

Interesting, right? He doesn't note the timeline on this, but it's so crafty, especially the point about other jurors talking to him at that time. It makes the problem seem bigger, right? When in reality, it was likely around the time when Dick was tooling around the quote-unquote dirt roads of Colleton County in his Mercedes, wearing an expensive suit, his resting snob face, his tiny sunglasses, and knocking on jurors' doors and telling them that they might have to lawyer up because they're about to get subpoenaed. In this interview Martha asked juror 630 aka juror Z aka

Mandy P if she would ever have come forward about Becky influencing her vote had the lawyers not sought her out and she, probably not. Probably not, she said. I have to repeat that. So, she wasn't planning on telling anyone. Is that because she didn't care? Or maybe nothing in it for her at the time? Her affidavit sure does walk a fine line, right? She doesn't say Becky pressured her to vote guilty. She says that the other jurors did. It's not until after her testimony on the stand with Justice Tolle that she signs another affidavit changing her testimony. Again, to say that both Becky and the jurors influenced her.

We don't want to go on too long about this because there's going to be plenty of time to discuss this turn of events. Tune in for next week's Gulf of Justice, by the way. But it's just so clear that Team Murdoch is once again using the media to puff up their claims so that they can influence the judges. If you don't believe me,

go watch the Fox Nation interview and pay attention to the part where 785 and 630 are asked what evidence stuck out for them, meaning why did you think Ellic wasn't guilty, and listen to their confusing attempts to explain how the evidence didn't add up to them. Finally, I'd like to point out the obvious. Myra Crosby contends that she was targeted by Becky Hill because Becky wanted a guilty verdict and knew she needed to remove Myra to get that. So how would Becky know Myra's opinion on Elec Murdoch's guilt?

How could she possibly know when Judge Newman was pretty clear over and over, he told the jurors, do not talk about this case outside of the courtroom, do not discuss it with other jurors? Myra says she wasn't talking about the case with anyone, so is Becky a mind reader or is this just more evidence of the clown crew retrofitting their facts to fit their narrative so they can manipulate the system into believing that Elick Murdoch was wronged? You know what our answer to that question is. Becky cannot target someone for their views if she doesn't know them.

And she can't know them if, like Myra says, she didn't speak about the case out of turn. Regardless, she gave herself away in the Fox Nation interview. Both 785 and 630 say that Becky effectively tampered with the jury when she told the two of them to pay attention to Ellic's body language and to not let him fool them, something no other juror remembers hearing. Jurors 785 and 630 say that this is the moment when Becky tried to influence their verdict. We already know that juror 630 has contradicted herself a few times on that claim and that her first affidavit indicates that she entered the jury room still having questions about Alex's guilt, meaning Becky's alleged attempt to

influence her was not actually successful. In the show, juror 785 tells Martha McCallum that she did like Becky told her to do and watched Alex's body language when he was on the stand, and that she believed him. So, in summary, there are only two jurors who say Becky tried to tamper with the jury. One never rendered a verdict because she got caught violating the court's order, and the other says she was pressured to vote guilty by the other jurors. And they both have now put on the record that despite Becky's alleged words, they still questioned whether Elick Murdoch was guilty. Does that mean that Becky failed at her alleged mission to tamper with the jury? Or does it mean that neither woman took Becky's words to mean

anything nefarious until doing so made them famous? Okay, no more Murdoch today. We've got to talk about J.P. Miller, his strange ticket debacle involving a lawyer legislator and more horrifying evidence to go through. We'll dive in after a short break and we'll be right back. Now at JoeFresh, get 25% off all children's apparel, only until Monday, September 2nd. Shop smart with one cart and check everything off your back-to-school list all in one place. Now that's some smart shopping. Conditions and exclusions apply.

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good old boyism continues to rear its ugly head in South Carolina. At around 6 45 in the evening of July 27th, which is two days before his settlement with the Francis family, evening of July 27th, which is two days before his settlement with the Francis family. JP was driving on Route 501 through a tiny town called Ainer, which is about 50 minutes northwest of Myrtle Beach and about 10 minutes from that seemingly random gas station that Micah stopped at on the day of her death. So why was JP in Ainer? No clue. But he got a speeding ticket going more than 25 miles per hour over the limit, which was bad news for him. In the year leading up to Micah's death, JP was ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in May 2023, then again for careless operation

of a vehicle in February 2024, and then again in April 2024 for disobeying a stop sign. While all of those charges wouldn't put points on JP's license, the speeding charge would add six points to it. Reporter Beth Braden has been keeping an eye on the ANER charge. Why? Do we think something else is going on there? Not really, but it was always going to be interesting to find out how JP chose to handle it. So the Public Index in South Carolina is a database that's supposed to show every charge that has been

filed against people in the state. Sometimes it will show violations of local ordinances too, depending on the court's policies of individual municipalities. It does not show charges that have been expunged. Those get deleted as if they never existed. Traffic violations though are not subject to expungement. Oddly, when Beth went to look at the public index to see if there were any updates, she noticed that JP's speeding charge from Ainer was not showing up in the public index anymore. That didn't make sense, so she called the town's police chief to get some insight on what was going on.

The chief told Beth that he didn't know why it wasn't showing up in the public index, but that his police department was currently negotiating with JP's lawyer. Negotiating? Weird, right? Because the last we saw, the charge had been adjudicated. He was tried in absentia and fined $440. So how is he allowed to negotiate a charge that a judge already sentenced him for? Well the police chief referred Beth to JP's attorney for further questions. The attorney? A man named Val Guest. Oh wait, sorry, I got his name wrong. JP's attorney is South Carolina House of Representatives member Thomas Duval Guest, aka Val Guest, a lawyer-legislator. I know. Can you believe it? So, Val's name popped up in JP's divorce filings with

Allison Williams in 2016, but that was before ol' Val was elected to the state house. We're going to talk more about JP's menu of attorneys in a future episode, but we just wanted to share all that with you because we were floored when we saw it. While Val is the representative of an Horry County district on the coast, he's not the representative of Aynor. That would be another lawyer-legislator named Jeff Johnson. I'm telling you, they're everywhere. Anyway, this is all just to say of course the charge disappeared from the public index. Of course there's a weird answer about why. And of course it turns out that JP is being represented by a lawyer

legislator who is trying to help him escape accountability. It's become textbook in South Carolina. It's such a pattern. You know how they say, where there's smoke, there's fire? Well, Mandy and I have learned that where there's a man in a high profile case trying to escape accountability, there's going to be a slew of traffic tickets in his name every time. Okay, so let's talk about that probate case. Like we said last week, JP provided a seven page affidavit in the case, along with around 65 individual exhibits. Let's just call those pieces of evidence like he did in one of his early

TikTok videos when he bizarrely promised he would be revealing hundreds of pieces of evidence to prove he didn't have anything to do with Micah's death. His basic argument in the affidavit is this, I was the best thing that ever happened to Micah, Micah's family is the worst, and that's why I deserve to be her personal representative for her estate. But as you all saw last week, in actuality the exhibits seem to prove the opposite. In fact, the exhibits show us how JP's goal seemed to be to control Micah right out of the gate. Today we want to start with an email that JP sent to Micah just 11 days after their church wedding.

As a quick refresher, Micah and JP were privately married on November 7, 2017. According to Micah's family and other sources, JP wanted Micah to get breast implants and insisted that they get quietly married so that she could move in with him and he could take care of her after the operation without having to worry about quote unquote living in sin. Post-op care for breast augmentation is about one to two weeks depending on the person by the way. So again this seems to be a bit over the top, raising the question of whether JP wanted to hasten their marriage so Micah would have to rely solely on him during her recovery, so that she would be weakened and incapacitated during what turned out to be orientation to

marriage with JP Miller. We all know at this point that JP seems to view marriage as something that elevates the capital H husband and subjugates the wife. He views it as a contract that obligated Micah to serve him according to his interpretation of how God wanted her to behave in their marriage. Right down to allegedly telling her

that if she didn't perform to his sexual standards, that he was allowed to go outside their marriage to meet his needs. JP denies all of this, by the way, and he says that it was Micah who wanted the implants before their big church wedding. Micah, who again was just 23 years old at the time, had her surgery on December 1st.

According to court records and interviews, Micah appears to have experienced post-anesthetic psychosis, which is something that typically resolves itself within a few hours or days. According to JP, this surgery caused Micah to be diagnosed with, he says, bipolar and schizophrenia. It is important to note that in the 150 pages of documents, JP did not provide one single piece of evidence that shows actual proof of this sudden diagnosis.

Again, there are a handful of exhibits that remain sealed at the request of Micah's family. It is not clear if those records would prove what JP is saying about Micah's diagnoses. We do, however, know that the unsealed exhibits we have seen make JP look even worse. We also know that a handful of random pages that appear to be from Micah's medical records were posted on TikTok Tuesday. We're not going to go into those today though, except to say that they don't shed a lot of light on Micah's alleged diagnoses either. Nor do they shed light on the timeline

surrounding them. All of them, however, note that she was not suicidal. More than that, we have spoken to two different clinicians about bipolar diagnoses, and they both confirmed exactly what we thought. This diagnosis isn't one made on the fly. It's usually a diagnosis that comes after a clinician can see a few months of a patient's behavior and mood swings including mania and depression.

Which, speaking of, one of our sources pointed something out that is very important. Notice that JP never seems to talk about depressive episodes that Micah experienced, specifically He only ever references her alleged manic episodes, which again, we think is code for, Micah is not worshiping me. That said, JP seems to have hopped to it when Micah's behavior, according to him, changed after the surgery. And depending on how you interpret the evidence, it seems that he's not really a man.

He's not a man. He's a man. He's a man. He's a man. He's a man. He's a man. He's a man. He's a man. J.P. seems to have hopped to it when Micah's behavior, according to him, changed after the surgery. And depending on how you interpret the evidence, it either seems like he was simply a scared and ill-equipped husband trying to do his best with his wife's new diagnosis, or, and I think you know where we stand on this, he overreacted to Micah's medical scare, perhaps because Micah

was showing signs of free will and he did not like that. Or worse, and this is just a theory by the way, perhaps this was a calculated effort on his part to break Micah down so that he could build her back up and to a wife who would never question him and more importantly, never leave him. So in between Micah's surgery and their church wedding on December 31, 2017, it looks like their lives were in chaos. Micah had her surgery and then two weeks later, according to JP and a recent interview, one of Micah's implants hardened, which is an indication that she had a pretty serious infection.

Around mid-month, JP brought Micah to the hospital and she was hospitalized for psychosis, according to JP. Again, he has provided no paperwork that we have seen that shows the reason that she was hospitalized that December. Instead, we have his references to that hospitalization around that time. In his affidavit JP, in an attempt to show the court that he was a loving husband who deserves to be in charge of Micah's estate, said he began attending support groups for people with family members who have mental illness. And as evidence of this, he included an email from March 6, 2018 that was sent to Micah. It's not clear from who because it's redacted. The email included a forwarded

message from February with details about this monthly meeting. Now, we are all for support groups. We both fully and personally know that mental illnesses can have profound effects on spouses and other family members. So there's no judgment there. But we do have to ask a question, a couple of them. Was this a fact-finding mission for JP? Was it a place to learn the lingo and hear stories? Did he go to these meetings to gather examples?

Sorry, we're assuming he went to these meetings to gather examples? Sorry, we're assuming he went to these meetings because, again, as evidence of going to these meetings, he included an email advertisement rather than an affidavit from a group leader who witnessed him being there. If he went to these meetings, was he going to help Micah or was he going because it further allowed him to catastrophize her health while appearing to be the desperate husband victimized by his crazy wife? In the affidavit, he goes on to say that, quote, once again, I wrote her an email about the events happening while she was in the hospital. This email was from January 11th, 2018, which again is five weeks after her surgery and less than two weeks after their church wedding. So was she hospitalized once or twice? The timeline is kind of murky, right?

How many times was she hospitalized from December 1st, 2017 through January 11th, 2018? Because JP talks about it a lot in that short amount of time. Or is he talking about the same incident from mid-December? The same single incident stemming from her post-op complications? This is important because we've seen, in our opinion, JP cause and then weaponize Mica's hospitalizations against her as evidenced by the February involuntary hospitalization that arose because according to Micah she had a panic attack. You remember how JP

continued to bring up her hospitalization to Secretary of State Mark Hammond and to various dispatchers on 9-1-1. In this email, JP got straight to the point. Micah wasn't taking her lithium and he was angry with her about this. When it comes to bipolar disorder, there is not an immediate perfect solution according to sources in the medical field that we've spoken to. It can take time to understand how the disorder is manifesting and to get the right dosage and combination of medication. January 11th was about a month or so after Micah's apparent diagnosis.

In his affidavit, JP writes that he gathered wisdom from professionals on how to care for Micah when she was in the hospital on December 22nd, 2017. I need you all to listen carefully to this email that he sent on January 11th, to these first few paragraphs of JP's email and ask yourself, why would a husband ever want his allegedly recently diagnosed wife to be on lithium this much? Keep in mind, one of Micah's family's key accusations against JP has been that he would drug Micah, including allegedly giving her his own lithium. Also, how could JP be drawing any conclusions about what Michael was like when she was and wasn't on lithium when it had just been

a few weeks? According to our sources, by the way, lithium is a rare drug to be prescribed to bipolar patients, especially so early on, and it takes weeks, even months, for lithium to do its thing. We're told that when bipolar patients push back about not wanting to take their medications, licensed clinicians will typically work with the patient to build trust in the hopes that they will want to take medication, and they'll maybe prescribe them something different. In other words, it's fairly common and not the end of the world like JP is making it out to be.

Now here's David with the email. Hey babe, every day you talk about how much you want to alter your medicine, come off your lithium or change the doses, without approval from your doctor or psychiatrist. This is much more of a serious conversation than what you think it is. To be very honest, it actually angers me at how selfish and ungodly the desire for you to come off your medication actually is. You claim that you now have the knowledge to be able to handle yourself without medication or a lower dosage, when in fact you must not have the control to handle yourself on the medication if you

actually believe that you're better off without it or a lesser dosage. If you were in your right mind, if you were operating in the mind of Christ right now, and you had doctors, nurses, friends, family, spouse, co-workers, all tell you that you should stay on your medication and you still want to come off, then something isn't right. Earlier today I finally gave in and I am willing to let you do whatever you want to in this area, just like I did with the dog that I agreed for you to get, even though I am the one who has to take care of him. But as your husband, Capital H, and as the one who suffered just as much

as you through all this, I believe I have a right to share my heart. I hope to appeal to your integrity, your intelligence, and to your relationship with Jesus and His Word. Ah, speaking of Micah's relationship with Jesus, this letter is proof of JP weaponizing Micah's beliefs against her. As her pastor and her husband, JP conflates what Jesus wants with what He actually wants. And here, He is saying point blank, Jesus will be mad at you if you don't take your lithium.

Imagine hearing that from a man who you considered to be your spiritual advisor since you were 15 years old. And think about how confusing that would be at 23 right after you married that man. Also, notice that he dog shamed her there. I mean, first, shut up, JP. Micah was still recovering at this point from the breast surgery in December that you allegedly wanted her to get.

And not only that she's had complications from that surgery, medical issues, and allegedly new diagnosis of a mental illness, she just got divorced and married twice and she is 23 years old at this point. But second, can we talk about the part of the email that gives him away? He wasn't just writing this to Micah or for Micah. He was writing it for future readers. He was documenting things.

That line about the dogs reads like a poorly written action movie where they try to cram in the hero's backstory in an awkward dialogue. Anyway, JP clearly missed the sickness and in health part of his own vows which he said less than two weeks before this email is sent, and which he said twice in the past two months. But think about this, bipolar was a brand new diagnosis for Micah, again, allegedly. Like our sources have said, it doesn't seem likely

that she would have been diagnosed so quickly. And despite the recent nature of the diagnosis, JP's email reads as if they have been married for years and he has finally decided that it's time to confront his spouse for the toll her years-long illness was taking on them as a couple. He doesn't seem like a newlywed at all. It should take years for this type of disappointment and resentment to build up. And yet here he is a mere days since she was diagnosed. It honestly reads like an attempt to tame Micah. Now, I need all of us to take a collective deep breath before listening to this next part because it is one of the

most infuriating things I have ever read as a journalist. And again, how can JP make any of these conclusions at this point? Here is David with JP's letter. Pros and cons of Being on Medication 1. When you're off your medication or not on your medication, it costs us a lot of emotional hardship and pain. 2. When you were off your medication or not on your medication, we suffered a lot financially. 3. When you were off your medication or not on your medication, you were unaware of what reality was and what was, quote, really going on, regardless of what you thought. In other words, you were deceived.

4. When you are off your medication, you are unable to function in the workplace. Five, when you're off your medication, you are unable to determine what is normal and what is abnormal. Six, when off your medication, you can't function in the area of your calling, singing, leading worship. Seven, when off your medication, you don't sleep properly. Eight, when off your medication, you don't sleep properly.

8. When off your medication, you think that you are learning other languages and musical instruments, when in reality you were wasting time on things that didn't line up with your real life. 9. When off your medication, you are totally fine with being in a mental facility. 10. When off your medication, you draw things and talk about things that nobody understands and that are pointless to your destiny and you communicated those things in ways that were unhealthy. Okay, so that was a lot and I can feel the collective female rage building up.

So let's pause again for a second and take a moment to scream all of the curse words that we need to. Okay, we needed that. Now let's dissect what is really happening here. The timeline is the most important piece of this, which brings us to a very important lesson in all of this. When being gaslit, focus on the facts that you know to be true.

According to JP's own timeline, Micah only began showing signs of having a quote unquote psychotic episode after her December 1st, 2017 surgery. This email was sent about 40 days after her surgery. So within those 40 days, according to JP, doctors, who JP doesn't ever name, diagnosed Micah with bipolar

and told her that lithium was the best medicine for her. Micah allegedly went to a mental facility an unclear number of times, but it seems like it was only once, and again, we don't have any evidence of that stay. Then JP and Micah had their church wedding, enduring all that, as she was recovering from major surgery, mind you.

JP and or doctors that he speaks of, were able to take enough day-to-day data that concluded, for the rest of Micah's life she would need lithium and JP to function. Think about that for a minute. Think about all of the medications that you have been on in your life and how hard it is to determine if that medication is working. Think about all of the other factors that contribute to your mood, quality of sleep, ability to concentrate and be productive at work, etc. etc. The context is the surgery and the stress, and the stress of your new husband trying really hard to convince you that you are bipolar and will need lithium and him for the rest

of your life. But if JP is to be believed, Micah was one step away from being sent away like Rosemary Kennedy. I want you to think about what David just read again. And I want you to replace when you were off your medicine with when you don't listen to JP. And watch the truth appear. When you were not listening to JP, we suffered a lot financially. It cost a lot of emotional hardship.

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We suffer financially. Then the manipulation goes deeper. In JP's own email that he submitted himself to support his argument that he was a good husband who deserved to be in control of Micah's estate, he's telling his new wife that without medicine, her opinions, thoughts, and feelings are not valid. Notice he said that Micah was totally fine

being in a mental facility? Well, maybe the mental facility was a relief compared to living with JP. Maybe she wanted to hear directly from professionals about what was happening to her. And again, was she even really in a mental facility or was she in the hospital? He makes it sound so ominous. Or was Micah maybe admitted to the hospital through the ER for the infection she had and placed her on the mental health floor because of the so-called mania she was experiencing, which sounds a lot like delirium caused by an infection and pain medication.

Oh, also, in this diabolical list of JPs, he gets downright hurtful and insulting. When off medication, quote, you draw things and talk about things that nobody understands and that are pointless to your destiny, and you communicated those things in ways that were unhealthy, and quote, you think that you are learning other languages and musical instruments when in reality you are wasting time on things that didn't line up with your real life. It sounds like maybe at this time, 23-year-old Micah was discovering that there was more to life than JP and his church, and JP didn't like that she was thinking beyond him. Because let's not forget, just a year earlier, JP's church had brought in a prophet, and

that prophet told Micah she was destined for great things, including that she too would be a prophet. The God would speak to her and through her to help others. It's so incredibly diminishing for him to then circle back on her when she starts to explore what that might look like. Does it mean improving her musical skills to reach people through song? Could it mean learning new languages to reach more people? Are these the ideas that came out of her head when she was not guarded because

of the pain medication? Okay. Deep breaths y'all because this letter gets worse. Next he goes into the pros of being on medication. Here's David again. One. When you are on your medication, you gain weight. This can be controlled by being more disciplined in the area or what you eat rather than focusing on how much you eat. Two. When you are on your your medication you feel lethargic.

This can also be helped by what you eat. But in actuality, it may be a side effect of the medication and we may have to deal with this like Jacob did with his limp. I have to pause here because what the heck is this man talking about? And how dare JP comment on his wife's weight one month after breast surgery when you aren't even supposed to work out for at least four to six weeks? How dare he comment on her weight ever,

but especially as she just started a new medication. I want to remind you that weight came up after Micah's death too, when JP said that Micah had allegedly lost 40 pounds in the month leading up to her death and no one seemed to think that that was a problem. He told one interviewer that he never cared about her weight, he just wanted her to be healthy. In the meantime, he sure does seem like he weaponized comments about her body no matter what size she was. Because in this email, it sounds like Micah

was not convinced that she needed lithium long term. And maybe she thought that she could get him off her back if she said the medicine is making me gain weight. Maybe she was thinking shallow JP Miller would be more concerned about having a heavier wife than a drugged one. And maybe that would make him listen to her about trying other options. Nope, not JP. Because again, it was another thing that he could use against her.

Another thing that he could criticize her about. You heard how JP mansplained to Micah how weight gain works. That this simply meant that she should try harder and work out more and eat healthier. Meaning gaining weight would be a sign of her failing. Okay, back to the email. JP then launches into a sermon about Jacob, Paul the Apostle, Moses, David, and Noah. He wrote, quote, Noah was called to save humanity, but he had no friends.

Which in the context of coercive control, seems like he's laying down the foundation for isolation, one of the key components of this type of abuse. Here is David with JP's letter again. God blessed Jacob tremendously, but he had to live with a limp. Paul the apostle had an amazing influence and anointing, but he had a thorn in his flesh. Moses was called to lead millions, but he had a stutter that God didn't heal. David had prestige, power, wealth,

but he battled depression. Noah was called to save humanity, but he had no friends. Sometimes God allows us to have a limp. A limp is something that reminds us how much we need to rely on Jesus. A limp doesn't prevent us from living a blessed life, but it does keep us humble

and reminds us of our weakness without daily time with Jesus. We all have a limp. It may not be the same as yours, but we all have a limp. It may not be the same as yours, but we all have one." That was confusing because even though Mandy nor I are pastors, we do know that Moses, David, and Noah were definitely in the Old Testament, so we're not sure how Jesus could have helped them with their limps when he didn't exist yet, but anyway, maybe that's what they teach at JP's Father's Bible College.

JP continues, this time deploying shame as a manipulation tactic. Here's David. It seems to be very selfish to want to come off of your medicine when examining the points above. Sacrificing your passions, job, relationships, influence with non-believers slash co-workers, finances, and our time and energy to get you back on medicine. Because you don't like feeling lethargic and because you don't want to exercise self-control and discipline over what you eat throughout the day.

So basically, you are so deceived that you are willing to bypass what every person in your life says is best and do what YOU want to do because you don't like the way you feel. Wouldn't the best thing we can do would be to 1. Spend more time in prayer every day asking for Jesus to help 2. Stay on your medication until altered by your doctor 3. Eat healthy snacks all through the day when you feel the munchies. Carrots, water, vegetables, try oatmeal, etc. Well, here he says the quiet part out loud. It is selfish of you, Micah, to disobey your husband. JP tells her that everything in her life will fall apart if she goes off this newly prescribed medicine or allegedly newly prescribed because, again, there's no real official documentation that

seems to show exactly what Micah's diagnosis was at this time or exactly what medication she was supposed to be on and when she was first prescribed it. And then, okay, the audacity of his advice. Turn to Jesus, aka he means himself. Stay on your medicine and eat oatmeal. Try veggie trays. I don't know about you all, but there's something extra aggravating

about JP giving Mike a weight loss suggestions here. He's treating her like a petulant child and he's totally setting her up to be the problem here. It's you, it's your lack of discipline that's the problem, not the medication. Then JP continues. The very definition of being deceived is whenever authority, loved one, and spiritual overseer tells us one thing and we totally believe another.

This is how atheists go to hell. Capital H. Alright, whoa. So, actually, surprise, that isn't the definition of deceive. Merriam-Webster defines it as, cause to accept is true or valid, what is false or invalid. In order to be deceived, you have to be convinced that something that is false is actually true. Meanwhile, J.P.'s definition of Micah being deceived, and let's face it, what he really means by that word is that she's stupid and naive for not believing him, he never includes anything

about the truth, which matters a whole lot. Remember last episode when we told you about his offensive five-part email? Remember the part where he said, I can't imagine thinking that the sky is blue and having everyone around me tell me it's pink. That is his definition of Micah being deceived. He's telling Micah, the sky is pink and she believes it's still blue. And he's saying that her thinking it's blue is a sign that she's sick. When in reality and absent any other context, like rain and sunsets and clouds, the sky is in fact blue. It is blue. Also, in our opinion, he is again weaponizing

Micah's faith here to warn her against forming her own beliefs, ones that differ from his and then equating it to being atheist and going to hell, which for her as a Christian would really resonate. Now, Micah underwent a hellish 30 days at this point. And again, this is according to JP's own words. Imagine how you'd feel if your husband spoke to you this way after you had just endured so much physical and mental trauma, along with wedding planning. Okay, so let's wrap up this email from atheist Toll. email from atheist hell. At the end of my email I have added two things. First, scripture and biblical points that prove a humble person will receive the instruction of much wiser people who are in authority. Your doctors, nurses, father,

husband, boss, co-workers, church family, friends, all want you to stay medicated. Not to hurt you, but to help you and because they believe it is best for you. Second, the email I received from, name redacted, on the day that you had been taken to the ER. A quick reminder, this is an email from December 15th, 2017 that we believe was sent to JP from his right-hand woman, Trisha Ross, and it contained nearly four pages

of a seemingly nonsensical text message from Micah to, again, who we think to be Trisha. This text did seem bizarre, but when you break it down and add context, it seems like Micah was still tethered to reality. At this same time is when, according to JP's TikTok interview, Micah became sick with what appears to have been

a severe infection from her surgery. Also, notice that he says had to be taken to the ER. This is what we were saying earlier. Was Micah hospitalized because of a mental break with reality? Or was she brought to the ER because of this infection and hospitalized because of that? And what if it was there where they put her on medicine for bipolar? It is not clear, but here is what JP has to say about the bizarre text message. He wants Micah to read it. After you have read this email in its entirety, if you still want to change your medication or stop taking it, I will

love you the entire time. I am willing to go through the emotional pain, the financial burden, the relational distress, the time consumption, and the lack of integrity. All so you can stop feeling lethargic and have your way under two conditions. One, we tell your father and we tell Name Redacted, I don't want to involve Name Redacted as she has too much going on in her life. I want to fill your father in because I believe you trust his judgment.

And I would want to tell Name Redacted so that I have someone I can lean on if you have to be hospitalized again. Two, if you have to be hospitalized, I don't want it to be my decision. I would want it to be your dad's and you can promise me that you will not hold it against me. So that was a real master class in manipulation, wasn't it? It's not if you want to do this thing, I'll accept it. It's if you want to keep hurting me, if you want to keep being a bad person, if you want to destroy everything, I'll accept it.

He's not telling her do this or else. Oh no, he's crafty. He phrased it all in a way that allows him to say, I left the decision up to Micah. I didn't force her to do anything. But in the meantime, his emails make it very clear that if she were to choose her way over his, that there would be tension in her marriage. There would be consequences for her. You can already see that in the short time since she was allegedly diagnosed, right?

We've spent two episodes now talking about a single month of Micah's life, and you can see how much JP has jam-packed over these few weeks with his full court catastrophizing. Bottom line, the way he goes about all of this is villainously artful because again and we have to keep saying this they are newly married this is a new alleged diagnosis this is new medication and Micah is 23 he's given her no space for her to learn and adjust to living with him he's given no time for her body and mind to heal from what just happened, which let's all pause once again

about her chief concern here, according to this email. She doesn't like how lethargic the medication is making her feel. And by the way, if a patient taking lithium experiences extreme lethargy, that could be considered an adverse effect of the medication. Meaning, was this a sign that Micah simply needed her meds to be adjusted? Was it a sign that Micah was worried that she was being overdrugged? Or maybe a sign that she was BEING drugged?

In other words, was something else going on here because JP's behavior? It was 100 miles per hour, full speed ahead here and acting like this alleged diagnosis was a full on crisis. And he came in hot with those emails to Micah, repeatedly gilting her, shaming her, reprimanding, lecturing her. So we have to ask the question, did JP prefer Micah when she was lethargic? Did he like it that her light was being dimmed by this medication? Did that feel less threatening to him? Did it feel like she would never leave him if she were too tired to do that? Anyway, JP then goes on to say that if Micah reads the text message and he's referring

to the email that was sent to him containing her rambling text message, and if she decides to stay on the medication, he will help her. I am willing to pray with you more than we do. He will help her. no matter what. But regardless of what you choose, I no longer want this as a discussion in our house. Either stay the course or come off the meds. But it is unhealthy and scary for me to be put in a position to constantly worry whether or not you're going to have to leave our house and family and go stay in a mental facility again. I love you, JP. Again, the way he speaks to her, as if Micah has had this alleged diagnosis for a long time,

and as if it has been a pattern of her going on and off medication and creating chaos in their lives. By all appearances from his own evidence, this would be the first time. And again, this diagnosis is questionable. Frankly, it seems to me like Micah might have decided to go off the medications because likely,

from her point of view as a 23-year-old, she saw the issue as being directly connected to her surgery. She likely saw it as a transient issue and that she would go back to how she was before the surgery. JP's emails would be patronizing and offensive even if Micah were to learn that she was profoundly manic

during this time period. Even if his claims about how she was acting could ever be legitimized. But it's always going to go back to this. JP had himself a young, very young, impressionable woman who worshipped him the way he wanted to be worshipped. Like he was a hero from the Marvel series, and then he married her, and she became human to him.

He saw that she had free will. He saw that she had hopes, dreams, and opinions of her own, ones that differed from his. And maybe this scared him. Maybe he didn't want to lose Micah the way that he lost Allison. So maybe, and again, this is just our opinion here. Maybe, when he saw that mental illness was on the table for her, when he saw what she was like when she was very lethargic, too tired to be her actual self, maybe he liked that version better. Maybe that is the version that JP wanted to maintain.

JP's reaction when Micah wanted to go off the medicine to perhaps see how she felt is really hard to understand given the context of the surgery and its complications. Sometimes, JP's writing seems very performative. Maybe that is a function of being a preacher and thinking that everyone is your audience at all times. Or maybe, like we said earlier, it's a sign that he was aware there might be future readers. That he was getting things on the record. A habit he might have learned during his first divorce.

J.P. drew a very clear line in the sand with Micah. learned during his first divorce. JP drew a very clear line in the sand with Micah. You take your meds and life with me will be easy. You go off your meds and I will hold it against you every day and in every way. In his affidavit, JP then goes on to say that he emailed his coach with an update on Micah, explaining that he would need to take care of her for every day of the rest of her life. He doesn't say what kind of coach, is it his spiritual coach or is that his fragile male way of referring to his therapist? This message to his coach remains sealed, but again, it would be

yet another piece of so-called evidence that is representing nothing more than JP's perspective on Micah's health. Who cares what he said to his coach? Oh, except this part. Does it sound like a normal reaction to you that within days of Micah's alleged diagnosis, a diagnosis that we now know to have been made with unusual speed, that this man had already decided that she was an invalid? Does that make any sense? According to a source in the mental health field who spoke to Lunashark Media, it really doesn't. Telling the husband of a patient who has been newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder that this diagnosis now means he is going to have to provide care for his 23-year-old wife for the next 50 plus years does not seem like something a doctor would do,

especially this early on in the diagnosis. But definitely seems like something Jay P wanted those around him to believe. It definitely seems like something he wanted Micah to believe. But the real question here is why? Why would JP Miller the pastor so badly want his wife to believe that she was bipolar? Why would he take this much effort to try to convince his wife that she was not only bipolar but that she needed to take lithium to make herself tolerable to her husband.

Where is all the paperwork showing which doctors made this diagnosis and prescribed medication to Micah? Where did JP first hear of lithium, and how come he never mentions in any of these documents that he himself took 900 milligrams a day like he admitted in this sermon in October 2023 around the time that Micah first filed for divorce. So for the past four weeks, I've had the most horrible battle and horrible time of my entire life.

I've never ever, ever, ever, not even close, been through what I'm going through right now in life. Not even close, horrible. I mean, horrible so bad, I'm seeing a psychiatrist every week, I'm on 900 milligrams of lithium, I'm seeing a counselor every week, I'm going to inner healing,

I'm going to deliverance three times a week with pastors in the area, I'm doing everything I can just to be able to get out of bed. I'm so depressed, I wanna die, I'm battling suicidal thoughts, I have unforgiveness, hatred, demons coming out of me. Horrible. It's wild to think about it. If a few months later, JP was the one who ended up shot to death in a river 100 feet from two spent casings and 100 feet from the weapon. Would law enforcement use this sermon to justify his death as a suicide like they did to Micah?

If it was JP, would they say something isn't right here? Would they say just because someone has mentioned having suicidal thoughts or mental health problems does not automatically mean it's suicide. Would they have bothered to do an autopsy if it was JP? Maybe they would have taken the time to track down every person who communicated with him leading up to his death. Maybe they would have done a full toxicology

to see what drugs that he was on at the time of his death. It's frustrating because I think if JP was the one who was found dead, this entire investigation would have looked different from the get-go. But it wasn't JP. It was 30-year-old Micah Francis who lost her life on April 27th. Micah, who was failed by Myrtle Beach Police, Horry County Police, Robeson County Sheriff's Office, and certain yet to be named medical professionals. They all failed Micah too.

And it is now up to all of us to make sure that she gets justice. On Wednesday, as we were finishing up the script feeling a little hopeless, our team got an alert in a case that we have been following. More than three years after the death of pregnant 23-year-old Sandra Burchmore, and two years after her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, former Massachusetts detective Matthew Farwell was arrested by the FBI and charged with the federal crime of killing a witness or victim. Court documents alleged that Farwell got Birchmore pregnant, strangled her, and then staged the scene to make it look like Sandra took her own life. Like Micah's family, Sandra's family rejected this ruling

that she died by suicide and they have been fighting on her behalf ever since 2021 to get accountability. Finally, they got some accountability on August 28th, 2024. While these charges do not mean that the system is fixed or close to it, it gives us a lot of hope for Micah's case that is still being investigated by the FBI according to our sources and the FBI being the same agency that investigated and ultimately arrested Officer Farwell. It gives us a whole lot of hope for the FBI to solve an equally complex case here in South

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