Murdaugh Murders Podcast - TSP #90 - JP And Wayne Miller’s Churchy-Business Kingdom Crumbles With Jane Doe No. 2’s Abuse Allegations In New Lawsuit

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

This week, investigative journalists — Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell — broke news that a second Jane Doe case had been filed against Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller, accusing him of sexually abusing a 14-year-old student at Cathedral Hall Academy (formerly known as Grand Strand Academy), a school owned JP’s father Wayne Miller, who is named as a co-defendant in the case.  In 1999, when JP Miller was 20 years old he allegedly molested the child after inviting her to play piano with him alone in the church sanctuary. The girl told a teacher about what JP allegedly did and instead of the school offering the child help, she was forced to write “I will not lie about JP Miller” 5,000 times.  Mandy and Liz break down the latest allegations against the Millers and share text messages between JP, his ex-wife and Mica from 2022 or before that addresses the child sexual abuse allegations against JP.  Also on the show, part one of the history of the Millers’ alleged scheme to use their school as a staging ground for abuse. Plus an update on the Justice for Mica protesters and JP’s frivolous lawsuits against them. Let's dive in... 🥽🦈  Premium Links and Resources Mandy & David on Set - Mandy’s Instagram, March 4, 2025 Go follow Erin Lee Carr & Michael D. Fuller on Instagram! “Bible college founder’s guilty pleas illustrate dramatic fall from grace” - The Sun News, Sept 3, 2014 “The History of the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base’s Transformation” - Visit Myrtle Beach Mica’s List & Mica’s Law Referenced Episodes: COJ 120 Premium Resources Jane Doe No. 1 Lawsuit & Liz Farrell’s LUNASHARK Article Jane Doe No. 2 Lawsuit & Beth Braden’s LUNASHARK Article Susan & Wayne Miller’s Divorce Documents - 2001 to 2009 Allison William’s Emergency Custody Motion - May 28, 2024 Stay Tuned, Stay Pesky and Stay in the Sunlight...☀️ 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. Premium Members also get access to ad-free listening, 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. Check out our LUNASHARK Merch 👕 What We're Buying... Chewy - chewy.com/mandy - Chewy has everything you need to keep your pet happy and healthy. And right now you can save $20 on your first order and get free shipping by going to chewy.com/mandy. Here's a link to some of our favorite things: https://amzn.to/4cJ0eVn *** 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: bsky.app/profile/mandy-matney.com | bsky.app/profile/elizfarrell.com TrueSunlight.com facebook.com/TrueSunlightPodcast/ Instagram.com/TrueSunlightPod Twitter.com/mandymatney Twitter.com/elizfarrell youtube.com/@LunaSharkMedia tiktok.com/@lunasharkmedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And I know that neither JP nor Wayne have ever faced anything like the heat and sunlight that is coming their way from these lawsuits. And I love that for them. My name is Mandi Matney. This is True Sunlight, a podcast exposing crime and corruption previously known as the Murdoch Murders Podcast. True Sunlight is a Lunashark production written with journalist Liz Farrell. Hello and happy Thursday.

Well, we haven't been this busy or this energized in a long time, and I want to take a moment to tell you about something that has been giving me a lot of hope right now. Earlier this week, we visited the set of the Murdoch Murders Hulu show based off of our reporting during the Murdoch Murders podcast era. I got choked up and breathless as I walked around and thought about how I am just one of a handful of journalists who, within a few years, went from a small town news reporter to an executive producer on a major scripted series based on my own reporting. My jaw was on the floor as I looked around at literally hundreds of busy crew members, buzzing between the lights, camera, and action. I've never experienced

art in slow motion like that and it was beautiful and the perfect way to start the week. I love that now I get to wear my executive producer hat on some days and witness before my own eyes just how much hard work pays off and I equally love that I get to use that motivation in the stories that we are working on right now. It's a reminder, again, that accuracy over access journalism pays off, that ethical reporting pays off, that peskiness pays off. I'm grateful for every single one of you

who have made this a reality. We wouldn't be here without our loyal listeners who stuck with us from the very beginning when we were at our kitchen table. Right now, I need a t-shirt that says ask me about our Hulu show because guys, I just can't stop thinking about it. And I've never been so excited and so proud to be a part of something like this.

The only thing that sucks about this amount of excitement raging inside me is that I can only share so much information with y'all, because it's not up to me. But I am allowed to generate hype, and y'all know me enough to trust me when I say that this project will be well worth the anticipation. And I know I'm biased, but I believe this is going to be one of the best Hollywood productions in history, based on a true crime story and podcast. This weekend, I was honored to go to dinner with the brilliant actress

slash author slash director who is playing me in the Hulu show. And while I can't say her name yet, I can tell y'all a few things. One is that so many of you are going to squeal in excitement like I did when this is announced. Two, I've been a fan of this actress' work for decades and weirdly, get this, she listened to the podcast before she heard about this project. Crazy. Number three, the actress who is playing me is a mental health advocate who has a strong moral compass and is going to be the perfect pesky reporter for this project.

Number four, we both agreed that this project is important not only for inspiring young women to be pesky and stand up to the good old boys, but also to honor the many victims in this story in a way that hasn't been done before. And number five, I just have to say this, she is a big deal. Okay, okay, I don't mean to tease, but I just want to let y'all know that we are so proud of this project that is set to air on Hulu later this year, and we cannot wait to share more. I wanna give a huge shout out to co-creators, Erin Lee Carr and Michael D. Fuller, who have been hustling so hard this week,

now that the show is filming in Atlanta, and I mean it when I say, y'all are the dream team. It is so rare to find people in the industry who we trust in the way that we trust Michael and Aaron to tell this story. So many people have contributed to bringing this project to life. The number of hoops we jump through does not happen in a vacuum. And from all reports, this needle does not get threaded.

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to the show's premiere. All that said, I am truly honored to have you in our corner and I'm excited to share more details as soon as I can. We are going to be back in Atlanta later this month and next month and are looking for a place to organize a little shindig around March 23rd, so we can share our appreciation with you. These meetups provide us a chance to thank Lunashark Premium members and listeners in person. But this time, we're going to invite the cast and crew so we can properly thank them, too.

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And that is that JP Miller's plan to silence his critics into submission through frivolous lawsuits in magistrate court continues to backfire. And ooh, it got worse for him and his churchy business bros this week. In this week's Cup of Justice, we told you about JP's pastor disaster day in court last week, where even with 40 so-called witnesses with him, he failed to prove to the court that three protesters were harassing him in order to get restraining orders approved.

The next day, Wayne Miller and church member Christina Best dropped their three remaining lawsuits against protesters Melissa Pfeiffer, Sandra Karen, and Ali Quozzo, who were also the protesters who won in court last week. Then on March 4th, JP dropped four more of his lawsuits, targeting Courtney Ann, Joe Coker, Alicia Hicks, and Bain Hicks.

As for the remaining lawsuits, the suits against Jeanette Williams Coker, Kyler Marlowe, Rob Ridosti, and Maureen Ridosti are still active, and those remaining defendants appear to be random. The remaining lawsuits are listed in the Public Index as scheduled, but the cases do not appear in the Magistrate Court dockets for any of its March dates. In total, of the 34 lawsuits filed in Magistrate Court since January, less than 10 of those lawsuits remain open. And J.P. Miller could still face major consequences

for abuse of process. Attorney Chris Helms, who is representing Tanya Hall, you know, the woman who allegedly had nothing to do with JP protesting or any of this mess, filed a motion for sanctions against JP, and that is currently scheduled for March 19th at 930 a.m. Oh, and JP still faces a counter-sue from protesters Melissa, Sandra, and Allie, the protesters who were in charge of the GoFundMe and have used that money to pay attorney Phil Quarry

to not only defend the protesters in court, but to fight and hold JP to account for abusing the legal system and to ensure that he learns his lesson that he can't get away with this in the future. The protesters' counterclaim against JP is still in play, even though he tried twice to settle in court with attorney Phil Corey. And of course, they were like, nope.

JP still faces another counterclaim filed by former church member Sam Rickman and his attorney Regina Ward. But that's not even the best part of this. The best part is that out of all of those legal losses, all spurring from the very mess that he started, none of those come close to the worst threat looming over JPPMiller right now. And that is powerhouse attorneys Randy Hood and Mark the Tiger Tinsley on his tail.

And those guys are just warming up. Randy Hood and Mark Tinsley filed another explosive lawsuit this week, accusing JP Miller of sexually abusing a 14-year-old in 1999 while he was a quote-unquote teacher at Wayne Miller's Christian school. Now, I know there is a lot in that sentence and yes, teacher is in air quotes because JP was 20 years old at the time and the quote-unquote school was more of a sketchy, school-y business that he himself says that he graduated from. But we will get more into that in a minute. What you need to know is this.

At the beginning of the year, JPMiller concocted a plan to silence protesters by filing dozens of lawsuits against a random slew of people. And that plan has backfired in the most spectacular of ways. Not only has he lost those cases at every turn in the most remarkable and embarrassing of ways, but J.P. Miller now faces two seasoned attorneys in two separate lawsuits who will not stop until Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, and any others who come forward get justice. Oh, and the FBI is still investigating JP Miller, according to multiple sources close to the case.

Think about the type of pressure that Elick Murdoch was feeling in 2021 when Mark Tinsley was suing him on behalf of the Beach family. Remember how Mark would not let up when Elick refused to reveal his finances, and he knew that Mark was onto him? That is the kind of pressure that J.P. Miller and his father Wayne are in for. Serious pressure that few people on this planet can imagine. If JP and Wayne Miller have any more secrets to hide, Mark and Randy will find them and leave no stones unturned. Which brings us to the lawsuit filed on Wednesday

against JP Miller, Wayne Miller, their churches, and now we have a school added to the mix, Cathedral Hall Academy, which was formerly known as Grand Strand Academy. We're going to start by going through all of the accusations laid out in the complaint, which by the way, could be triggering. And then we will tell you what this means

and why this is such a big deal. In 1999, Jane Doe II was 14 when her parents enrolled her at Cathedral Hall Academy, a private Christian school run by Wayne and J.P. Miller, according to the lawsuit that said J.P. and Wayne, quote, portrayed themselves as devout men of God, offering a faith-based education in a nurturing environment. I'll have David read this next part directly from the lawsuit to give y'all a real feel of this sketchy schoolie business that they were allegedly operating. Instead, Jane Doe II walked into a nightmare.

Cathedral Hall Academy was not a school, it was a trap. There were no certified teachers, no legitimate coursework, and no structured academics. The classrooms were carved from a repurposed bowling alley, their walls incomplete, their floors slick and uneven. Many of the staff were simply members of Wayne Miller's churches or colleges with no credentials, no oversight, and in some cases, deeply questionable backgrounds.

What should have been a place of learning became a place of control, fear, and unchecked abuse. Within months, Jane Doe too became one of its victims. Of course, there is a scammy school in this bottomless hellscape of a story. We haven't told you in detail about the quote-unquote schools that Wayne Miller ran back in the day, but put a pin in that because, whew,'s a lot more there. And there's a lot more to come on this lawsuit after a short break. And we'll be right back. been disrespected. I remember hating that feeling, and I remember the day that I resolved to never let it happen again. When I founded Bland Richter with my partner Ronnie Richter,

we committed to build a firm that demanded respect and that would fight the powerful on behalf of clients who felt powerless. We stand tall against the largest law firms in the state, the country, and the entire world, and we've remained true to the commitment not to be pushed around. Tenacious representation, proven results. We are Bland-Richter. Learn more about what we do and who we are by visiting bland-richter.com. That's B-L-A-N-D-R-I-C-H-T-E-R dot com. According to the most recent lawsuit filed against J.P. Miller, one morning in 1999, 14-year-old Jane Doe,

number two, was asked to hold open the door to the church building as children left after chapel service. When the last child ran out of the building, Jane Doe, number two, found herself alone with one of the teachers, JP Miller, who was seated at the piano and playing softly. According to the lawsuit, JP Miller then asked Jane Doe, number two, if she wanted to play, and she saw no reason to decline. But when she got up to leave,

JP allegedly pulled her into a hug, and before she could react, he then allegedly moved his hands down her back, to her waist, under her clothing, touching her bare butt. Horrible, right? But then it gets worse. Jane Doe number 2 says she told a teacher what JP had allegedly done to her and instead of that teacher helping her, Jane says the teacher sent her to Wayne Miller's

office. Wayne Miller. You know, the man who allegedly fled Florence just a decade earlier because of a five-part television series accusing him of sexually abusing Bible college students. When Jane Doe No. 2 got to Wayne's office, JP Miller was already there according to the lawsuit. Here is David reading the next part of Jane Doe No. 2's lawsuit. Listen carefully.

Wayne Miller demanded she repeat her accusation with his son standing beside him. Jane Doe No. 2's voice wavered and she told the truth. Wayne Miller did not ask for details. He did not care. He shouted at her, you will not lie about my son. Then came her punishment. She was forced to write the words, I will not lie about John Paul Miller 5,000 times. Let me repeat that again.

Wayne Miller allegedly made a 14-year-old girl write, I will not lie about John Paul Miller 5,000 times. Again, 5,000 times. This is alleged, but if it's true, it is something straight out of a bad parenting 101 playbook. This is how monsters are made. JP was around 20 years old at the time, so while he was absolutely old enough to know better and old enough to face

accountability for his actions, we have to point out how much worse Wayne allegedly made this situation. JP could have learned an important lesson that day that could have changed his life and so many others, including Micah's, but instead. Wayne Miller added gasoline to JP's fire, and not only gave him the green light to continue to allegedly abuse others with his position of power in the church, but he emboldened JP by punishing the 14-year-old who told on him. He sent a strong message to those around JP that there will be consequences for those

who cross him. If those allegations are true, then it makes a lot of sense, right? It makes sense that 25 years ago, JP Miller allegedly learned that whenever a person makes an accusation about him, his father will be there to not only blindly defend him without even attempting to investigate the claim, but his father will use the power he has as a pastor to punish those who speak out against him in any way. If that did happen, it would make sense that 20 years later, that same man would have the

audacity to call the police like he's ordering pizza while he's under federal investigation, for example. And it would make sense that that same man, 20 years later, would file a gaggle of frivolous lawsuits that clog up the courts and attempt to scare the internet into silence. If that did happen, it would explain a whole lot about J.P. Miller. And it makes my heart break all over again for Micah. But back to the lawsuit. After Jane Doe II was punished for telling on J.P., her life at school kept getting worse. Here is David

reading from Jane Doe 2's lawsuit. After that day, the torment escalated. The students at the school, many from troubled backgrounds, took their cues from the Millers. They turned on Plaintiff with full force, calling her a liar, a whore, and a slut. They whispered behind her back, shoved notes under her desk, and made her life a daily humiliation. Then came the physical assaults. The lawsuit said that in JP's quote-unquote so-called music class, two girls assaulted Jane, grabbing her from behind, holding her arms back to rip open her shirt and stuff tissues in her

bra. And when this happened, JP, the teacher, allegedly laughed. Here is David again reading from Jane Doe II's lawsuit. Other times, boys and girls alike shoved her into bathroom stalls, slapped her, and yanked her hair. One student even held her down and sprayed bug spray into her mouth and eyes while others watched. Through it all, JPM was there, smirking, encouraging, watching. RWM was no different.

One day he found her crying. He told Jane Doe number two, stop disturbing the Lord's work and repent for your lies. The message was clear. No one would protect her." According to the lawsuit, when Jane Doe II was in 9th grade, the abuse only escalated. One day, JP allegedly cornered Jane Doe II alone in his classroom and told her that she had failed the test, but if she stayed after class, he could fix it for her. Jane Doe II stayed after class, according to the lawsuit, and sat down in a chair near

the piano. Here is David reading from the lawsuit. He started with small talk and asked, Did she like him? And did she have a boyfriend? His hand moved to her knee and she froze. He leaned in further and said he could protect her if she would let him. He then grabbed her and physically assaulted her by putting his hands under her shirt and skirt and touching her sexually. She struggled to push him away,

but he was stronger and pushed her down. She finally broke free and sprinted for the door. She ran down the hall and out of the school, away from JPM. When her mother finally found her walking down the road, she did not say what had happened. The lawsuit also details horrific and heartbreaking psychological abuse that Jane Doe II allegedly endured while

attending Wayne Miller's school. The horrors of Cathedral Hall Academy were not just physical and sexual, they were psychological. When plaintiff brought a Harry Potter book to school, Wayne Miller and JP Miller dragged her into the office. They berated her, called her a servant of Satan, and told her that if she continued down this path, she would be raped by demons. Then, right in front of her, they set the book on fire. Wayne Miller then beat her with a Bible and poured water over her head. She was 16 years old. That was her final year at Cathedral Hall Academy. According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe II, quote, repressed the memories of the abuse voiced

upon her by John Paul Miller and Wayne Miller. The lawsuit said, quote, as a direct result of the trauma inflicted by John Paul Miller and Wayne Miller's assaults, plaintiff repressed memories of the abuse, preventing her from fully recognizing the extent and impact of the harm she suffered. Jane Doe II first began to process and recall the abuse in 2024, following the widespread media coverage of Micah Miller's death, according to the lawsuit. Here's David again reading directly from the lawsuit. Micah Miller's death triggered plaintiff's realization of the coercion, control, and abuse she had endured at the hands of J.P. Miller and Wayne Miller. It was only then that plaintiff was able to fully comprehend the nature of the assaults

by John Paul Miller and Wayne Miller and their lasting impact on her, making the accrual of the Statute of Limitations begin at that time. John Paul Miller and Wayne Miller's abuse and predatory behavior acts in 1998 through 2001 has caused plaintiffs severe and lasting harm. We've told you before about the way we do our investigative reporting, at least when it comes to stories like this where it seems like there's always breaking news and dramatic turns of events. It's kind of like someone has told us that there's this big treasure chest somewhere out there in the world, and that this treasure chest is filled with justice and actual accountability and consequences

for the good old boys, along with a sense of satisfaction for us that they didn't win this time. But there's one catch. There's also no map on how to get to that treasure chest. So we have to build the map ourselves, which we do over time through foyers and interviews and court records and tons of research and strategizing. Plus all the brave unnamed sources behind the scenes who help us by providing us with important information for our map. Because in the end, this journey is one that we're all on together. We're all so tired of watching the same deadly consequences for women repeat itself over and over,

and we're sickened by the constant stream of examples of women not being listened to when it comes to the abuse they're experiencing. And generally, I think it's safe to say that we're all very much overseeing people get away with bad acts simply because they can afford to pay their way out of it. That said, every time we find a new piece of information to help us build that map, we make it a point to stop where we are and go back to the very beginning so we can retrace our steps and look at the terrain in a different light. So needless to say, we did that after reading Jane Doe number 2's complaint.

We took a look at some of our old information and even though we're not exactly shocked by this complaint because the writing really was on the wall, details we all already knew about Wayne's and JP's lives are even more relevant now. For instance, last week we reminded y'all about the affidavits from JP and Wayne's first wives and the accusations of sexual abuse at their churchy businesses, which includes the schools. In Wayne's case, there were serious accusations of sexual harassment and assault coming from his Bible college students, as you know, which again was the subject of a five-part investigative

series on a local TV station that ran twice. The second time because Wayne was fighting to get free land from the federal government to build his churchy business and schools on. And then with JP, there were accusations of sexually molesting children at the church. Something that he apparently referred to as dating, according to a text message referenced

in the Jane Doe number two lawsuit. When we looked back at the affidavits and other divorce filings this week to see what new insight we might have now, we were reminded of this. In 2015, in a custody agreement with his first wife, Allison Williams, with whom he had four children, a custody agreement, by the way, that was still active at the time of Micah's death, JP had

agreed to an arrangement that allowed him to have his sons, who were around ages 15, 12, and 7 in 2015, stay with him overnight every other weekend but prevented him from having overnight visits with his only daughter, who was around 6 at the time the agreement was drawn up. In May 2024, when Allison sought an emergency suspension of their custody agreement with family court, because of Micah's death and JP's increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior over the previous two years, she included 14 very revealing exhibits for the court.

Remember the text that JP allegedly sent from his daughter's phone to Micah, pretending to be his daughter? In her exhibits, Allison also included screenshots of group text messages between Allison, JP, and Micah from some time before JP and Allison's youngest child, their only daughter, would be 13. So likely around 2022. Both JP and Micah were trying to convince Allison to change her mind about the prohibition

against overnight stays for their daughter. Let's review those text messages again, shall we? David will read the part of JP. I will read the part of Micah and Liz will read the part of Allison. We're going to substitute any names for their corresponding generic nouns. Allison, did you tell her daughter she can go on trips with you when she turns 13? What we hope for and what we pray for is that there will be a heart change, seeing as I have never nor will ever hurt one of my kids or put them in any situation that would hurt them. You can continue to say no and you continue to think the way you do, but we can continue to pray and hope.

We didn't ask you so there's no need to discuss it. But one day, if and when we do, we would love to discuss it. Allison, hey, when you talk about it with our daughter, it absolutely opens the discussion up for all of us. She can't have normal privileges because you have committed terrible crimes of sexually molesting underage children. Praying for my heart to change is absolute gaslighting. When you bring this topic up or if the children ask, I tell them the truth. I will not cover up and lie. I will continue to tell her the truth in an age-appropriate way. That's nothing a mother wants to discuss, but when asked to, I tell the truth.

Sadly, this is the reality and we face it and deal with it. If you don't want this discussed with our daughter, then you shouldn't bring it up. Or if she asks and is sad she misses out on vacations and such, maybe you should take ownership and responsibility for your actions, present or past, and own it. Say it's your fault and move forward. If you need or Michael wants to discuss this more, let's sit down and talk about it. Say it's your fault and move forward. If you need or Michael wants to

discuss this more, let's sit down and talk about it. Number one, this has nothing to do with my own child. Number two, the fact that our daughter is with me all the time from morning until night, there's no difference between night to morning. She is with her dad. The time of day has no bearing, but you can do as you want. It is evil to remotely make a child think that their parent would ever in a million years hurt them. Allison, I don't.

I tell her the truth why you legally have lost privileges. The truth isn't that I lost the privilege because of legal mistakes. I don't lost the privilege because of legal mistakes. I don't have the privilege because I signed a paper that you had me sign. But you allowed our daughter to stay the night for a while. And you can always allow it if you want to. Because there is no difference in her with me in the day, afternoon, night, morning, etc. But again, it's your decision per legal papers.

Allison, we can sit down and discuss this more in person. I can show why legal papers were signed. It was to avoid presenting affidavits from the minors you've molested. Okay, thank you. Micah, put simply, your oldest son started choosing where he wanted to go at 13. So we assumed your daughter would have that choice as well. Didn't think the gender was an issue

since we get her on a regular basis with no fear of anything happening to her. Didn't mean to make a big fuss and bring up 20-year-old issues. Allison, who says there's no fear? This is not a 20-year-old issue. Do you think those victims of his would say it's a 20-year-old issue? Also, JP still displays continued poor character and puts our children in harmful situations. Paying our son to take me to lunch to ask me

if he leaves you in the church, would I ever remarry him? And being unfaithful to you and putting my child up to be a middleman is a horrible situation to put a child in. Getting a job for our two oldest sons at a location where their boss was one of JP's mistresses is a horrible situation to put my children in, especially since she had told a teenage coworker

she slept with her pastor before her wedding and those kids could have told my children at any point. That is absolutely putting my children in harmful situations. Also having our daughter around another woman's children who was a former inappropriate relation is also a Horrible situation to put my children in it is selfish and harmful and has no consideration for how it would affect my children and all they have already been put through by him and honestly you too

He has shown his interest and scheme at hand are most important by doing those things. This continued lack of character is harmful for all involved and I will not hide it or pretend all is well when a finger gets pointed at me as though this is a possible misunderstanding or overreaction. I am peaceable, but will not tolerate any blame shifting and gaslighting intentional or unintentional. Okay thanks. Micah No one is pointing the finger at you saying John Paul's actions are your fault.

However, what you heard about the boy's boss who says she slept with JP before her wedding is not true. I've done my due diligence. As far as the woman you say he had an inappropriate relationship with, I am aware of her transgressions. Parentheses kiss, comma, pics. And John Paul's lack of guts to get rid of her sooner. I hope this won't affect your opinion of her children. So a lot of you have asked if Micah was aware of JP's alleged molestation of children.

Again, in February 2024, Micah told a police officer that JP had groomed her since she was 15 years old. And what she likely meant by that is that in her opinion, looking back, he had been preparing her for a future sexual relationship with him. And we don't know if they actually did have a sexual relationship back when Micah was 15 or a teenager, but JP has denied that they did and he has denied grooming her. But from these texts, it obviously seems like Micah, who was also a victim of JP's alleged ongoing course of control abuse, mind you, was aware of at least some of the allegations

against JP. And I think from the way she referenced those allegations as 20-year-old issues, that it's very likely she had been well-trained on JP's narrative and his point of view. Anyway, I'll say it again. Go off, Allison, because that is some pure-hearted mama bear energy right there.

Always protect children. We don't know Allison, but if there is a hero in the story, it is her. She paved the way to help make it safer for former church members and students to come forward and make their allegations against JP. And seriously, the way she disarmed JP in those texts while maintaining decorum? Chef's kiss. That is the way to handle an alleged narcissist. I hope Allison Williams writes a book one day.

Okay, so one, JP wasn't allowed to have overnight visits with his daughter because his ex-wife did not trust him having unsupervised time with female children. And JP signed off on that not because Alison made him but because he likely had to. Because here's the thing and I know this is confusing for some people and especially those who are willfully ignorant. When you're a survivor of childhood sexual violence of a life-altering trauma and you have attempted to tell the authorities like Jane Doe, number two, did, and it results in further misery and abuse.

Or if you attempt to confront your abuser later in life, only to be told what you know happened to you didn't happen to you, and you're told that you're crazy or a liar or misremembering things, then you, as a person who has received the message loud and clear that your truth isn't real and that remaining silent is the only way to survive for now, you, as a human being with a body and a brain that are preternaturally programmed to go into fight, flight, or freeze mode, might subconsciously send those memories back into the repression folder in your head because you have been re-abused in that moment. You have been re-traumatized by the subsequent abuse and gaslighting. You are back where you started. And accused abusers rely on

that. When it comes to being sued or being held accountable, accused abusers will of course hold tight to every regressive, societal belief and protective law that supports the malevolent and misogynistic philosophy that sexual violence isn't a big deal or to the extent that it is a big deal, then the victim is probably lying about it and her repressed memory shouldn't be used against the accused abuser. But let's be real about it. Accused abusers love repressed memories because memories that are being repressed are a reprieve for the accused abuser. It buys them time, possibly forever.

It allows them to go unpunished, possibly forever. It means they might just get away with it, which they might even consider their birthright. Anyway, back to those legal papers that JP says Allison forced him to sign for no reason. Like we said, JP signed them because he likely had to, because as an accused abuser, he would have wanted to keep his accuser's memories

safe and sound in their repression chambers. Now, we don't know whether the accusers that Allison mentions in these texts are any of the Jane Doe's who have filed complaints so far. And we don't know if these affidavits even existed or if she was referencing their possibility of existing. Meaning, had JP started to fight her on the no overnights clause, she would have tried to seek out the rumored victims to have them testify to what JP allegedly did. But did you notice something pretty significant in all of those messages?

Now, from the day we were all introduced to John Paul Miller, he has denied everything he has ever been accused of doing to my good, and to pretty much everybody ever. We've seen him lie, we've seen him redirect a narrative and create one from scratch to suit his needs, but what we didn't see in that text exchange is any of that. He didn't deny what Alison was accusing him of doing. In fact, he says this has nothing to do with my own child. Is he saying he wouldn't do what Alison is accusing him of doing, which is sexually molesting other people's children, to his own offspring.

Because that is what it sounds like in our opinions. Okay, two more revisits. The first, Allison was also pretty explicit about what she thought of Orwayne Miller, the man who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to basically enslaving foreign students through his Bible college in 2014, and nonetheless continues to deny his guilt. The man who pleaded guilty to soliciting an undercover male police officer in a Myrtle Beach bathhouse in 2006 but who continues to deny he did that. The guy who was so angry that a TV station re-aired a series reporting on sexual abuse allegations made

against him by his Bible college students that he threatened the TV station's employees that they would pay for it. In a 1996 letter to the TV station, Wayne wrote this, quote, maybe sickness, loss of a loved one, something mortally painful, but it will come back to you. It will come back to the one who prompted your reporter to do a number on Wayne Miller. In their 2015 custody agreement, JP and Allison also agreed to the following,

quote, the parties agree that husband is not to have the minor children in Wayne Miller's presence unless wife is also present and consents to the same. Again, as of May 2024, that agreement was still in place. In 2024, Allison asked the court to issue an order restraining JP from exposing the children to their paternal grandfather Wayne Wayne Miller, in any capacity, both pendente lite and permanently. So no overnight visits with his daughter for JP,

and no unsupervised visits with any of the young grandkids for Wayne, and JP is not considered a safe supervisor of such a visit. An update, can you make it so JP can't bring his father around our kids ever? Forever and ever? Got it. This must have sounded familiar to JP and Wayne because 17 years earlier, JP and the mother of JP's first son had this in their custody agreement in 1998, the same year that JP is accused of raping a 15-year-old child. Here's David.

that JP is accused of raping a 15-year-old child. Here's David. up the child from preschool or school without prior consent of the mother. In other words, and I assume this was a compromise, this 19-year-old mother had to put it in writing that she would seriously consider sending her son to Wayne's school for his entire academic career? That's how strongly JP and his family wanted that kid to go to Wayne's school? And how strongly SHE didn't. They had to memorialize it in a legal document and force her to seriously consider changing her mind. It's unclear whether JP's first son ever attended Wayne's school, but at the time

of this custody agreement, he was not. That's how important that school was to Wayne and his ego, and I know it sounds like I'm jumping to conclusions, but, uh, no. Now it's time to talk about that school. More on that in a minute. We will be right back. So first, there is a lot to dive into with Wayne Miller schools and we're not going to get to everything we know at this point today.

Also, there are a lot of rabbit holes to go down here and believe me when I say we already have the flashlights on our heads, our lunches in our buckets and we are carrying a cage canary because we are going to go subterranean with this one. Now we all know about, and the lawsuit takes great care to point this out. Wayne's history in Florence and the big rebranding he did in 1993 when he and his family fled to Myrtle Beach so he could start up his churchy businesses there.

What we love about Randy Hood and this phenomenally written lawsuit is that it connects the dots in a way that really clarifies who Wayne Miller is, in our opinions anyway. Here's David. Upon arriving in Myrtle Beach, Wayne Miller rebranded his organization as Cathedral Baptist Church, attempting to dissociate from the tarnished reputation he had left behind in Florence.

This rebranding effort was designed to obscure past allegations while providing a fresh foundation to continue expanding his religious and educational enterprises. Under this new identity, he sought to establish a new campus that would house his church, school, and Bible college, each of which played a critical role in sustaining his operations and furthering his financial and personal interests. In furtherance of this expansion, Wayne Miller acquired the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base Chapel in 1995. This strategic acquisition was not merely an effort to secure a new place of worship, but was a calculated move to utilize federal programs designed to incentivize educational institutions relocating to closed military sites.

The lawsuit goes on to say that Wayne, quote, exploited government's incentives to acquire valuable property at a significantly reduced cost, all under the pretense of providing legitimate educational opportunities to the community. In other words, the lawsuit is accusing Wayne Miller of using the creation of this school, which the complaint says was falsely advertised as a quote, high quality educational facility with a focus on academic excellence and the well being of its students as part of a bigger scheme to quote, exert control over students and faculty while leveraging the institution for financial gain.

I apologize for how cynical this is about to sound. And for our church going listeners, this is not an indictment on all churches out there, but this isn't unique. JP Miller and his father were not only soliciting weekly donations of 10% of their congregation's income. They were using public assets to further enrich themselves. Because again, it's a business and it's really important for members of churches to pay attention to where the money is going. Of course, Wayne and JP would both likely save this money and this property were blessings from God that only helped

fund their mission to serve people. We will get into those missions in a future episode. I want to share a few tidbits from the time of Wayne's angry and loud and calamitous efforts to get federal property for free. So at the same time, Wayne Miller was re-establishing himself in Myrtle Beach. The Myrtle Beach Air Force Base was closing. In 1939, Myrtle Beach, which is a city, but back then it was a town, bought 135 acres to open a municipal airport, which they did with the heavy financial support of the federal government. But in 1940, the Army Air Corps began using the property to train pilots.

Within two years, the US War Department had purchased the airport land and more than 6,500 acres surrounding it and began turning it into a formal base, which earned the nickname Splinter City because many of the structures built on the base were built with wood. Fun fact, the base housed German prisoners of war during World War II. Back to the 1990s, the land was first returned to the city of Myrtle Beach and the airport was run by Horry County according to online accounts of the land's redevelopment. The question of what this land would be used for was a contentious one and sometimes went

the way of absurdity. According to VisitMyrtleBeach.com, at one point there was a rumor that Michael Jackson wanted to open an amusement park there, which don't let me say what I want to say here. I am not doing it. Now, the closing of the base had an economic impact. According to online resources, it meant losing 5,000 jobs, which obviously affected the housing market, the schools, tax income for the state, county and city.

And there was a lot of thought about how to rebuild in a way that would help the area thrive. Redevelopment authority was created in 1994, and in summer 1995, a retired Air Force Colonel was put in charge of it. From the start, a line began to form. Immediately, in 1993, Wayne Miller, newly on the scene in Myrtle Beach, and on behalf of his school, Cathedral Bible College, put in a request for the air bases chapel through the Department of Education. In 1994 a task force that advocated for the unhoused put together

an application for a piece of property. That application included a request from a state youth group for an emergency shelter, a community action group looking to build 46 houses for people who didn't have houses, the city housing authority wanting to build 25 housing units for families and children, and Wayne Miller of Cathedral Bible College who wanted to build a dormitory, quote, for use as a transitional shelter and the old base post office for job training and employment services.

Sure, Jan. In February 1995, the Air Force began accepting bids on the chapel the Cathedral Bible had requested through the Department of Education. And Wayne was not happy that the local newspaper reported that there had been no formal request for it. In a letter to the editor, Wayne wrote, quote, since that request of 1993, the senior chaplain of the Air Force received a request from the lieutenant governor and numerous other officials to give that chapel to Cathedral Bible College.

Get that? Wayne was telling Myrtle Beach that he had some powerful people behind him saying that he should get that property for free. In the letter, Wayne continued. He said that his Bible college, which this is something notable that we keep seeing, Wayne always seems to be careful

about how he refers to his church and schools. They're his when he needs them to be, to show power over others, and they're a the, a standalone party, when he needs to sound like he's a mere representative of an institution. Anyway, Wayne tells the paper that the Bible College made an

offer to purchase or lease the chapel and says the school and church will offer a sealed bid for the property. Then he points out that pieces of the land were given to a community golf course and rec center for free and then ends on a manipulative, sad sack note like, guess the chapel will have to bring in revenue to the Air Force because the religious community has to outbid each other for the chapel. At this time, Wayne's church was using a storefront. Soon after this letter went to the editor, the church secured a purchase agreement for the chapel and more than two acres for $280,000.

And they began moving into the building in late July 1995. Immediately after moving, Wayne began offering an evening vacation Bible school called Kids Crusade. In an August 1995 story, a regional centerpiece featuring pictures of children attending the church, Wayne said he wasn't done and that he planned to get an additional 10 to 15 acres and seven empty dormitories and recreational buildings

behind the chapel to use them as a campus for the Bible college. In the end, he made a run at getting 22 acres for free. Now, at this time, Wayne was running weekly ads in the paper for his church and the various events at it. And the church seemed to be interchangeably called Cathedral Baptist Church and also Grand Strand Cathedral Church. Then it gets spicy. In May 1996, the Myrtle Beach Sun News wrote a story with the headline, School is Irrate Over Air Force Base Land. Denied Request for Space has Bible College fuming.

And Wayne comes off as a straight up cartoon villain here, promising he'll be back. You'll see. Literally, this is Wayne's first quote in the story. This is not the end of it. In subsequent coverage, it was often noted that Wayne had threatened opponents of his plan that quote, God will punish them for interfering. Wayne was denied the property because the redevelopment authority was like, my man, this is valuable land that's very marketable and we have an opportunity to, I don't know, create a bunch of jobs here. Wayne said that federal officials and former governor Carol Campbell had led him to believe

that he would get the land for free. Of course, the paper doesn't back that up other than to attribute it to Wayne. There's no evidence that the reporter asked for proof of this. There's no evidence of a call to the former governor to verify. Although the head of the authority is quoted as saying, nobody ever promised him any land. The authority did, however, offer to sell the property to Wayne or allow him to rent the property for three years at one-third of the property's value, to which Wayne said, that's a ridiculous offer. At this point in time, the Bible College and Grand Strand Academy, which later became Cathedral Hall Academy, were operating out

of the chapel and the basis's theater and bowling alley, according to the paper. A story published a year after this noting that Wayne was leasing those two properties from the redevelopment authority for free. Quote, Grand Strand Academy is unaccredited and most class credits earned at Cathedral Bible College will only transfer to other theological schools. According to the paper, Wayne said the schools had a combined enrollment of 170 students but then qualified that number by saying that some of the students actually attended their classes at so-called extension schools in Florence and Charleston. Wayne told the paper that his campus had grown so much in the past year that he was holding classes in an old school bus parked behind the chapel. Am I the only one who thinks that sounds a

little shady? The story ended with the head of the redevelopment authority saying he doubted Wayne's threats would have any effect on the authority's plans moving forward. A month later is when WPDETV re-aired its expose on Wayne Miller and the sexual abuse allegations against him from eight years earlier. In July of that year, a man named Bobby Hunt wrote a letter to the editor that started with, Being a former altar boy, I can only thank God, country, and the Air Force that Wayne Miller's land grab has been stifled.

Give a Bible-beating deacon 50 yards and he wants the whole football field. Give him free. No charge. No taxes. Wayne Miller states that, quote, kings rise and fall and so do authorities. Could he be comparing himself to King Henry VIII, a king who rose to power and founded the Church of England? In the early years of that church, it stole acres of land from Suffolk to Berkshire and

down to Hampshire, all in the name of King and Church. Despite the pushback, Wayne did not give up. According to a Sunnew story, in May 1997, the federal government had questions about Grand Strand Academy and the Bible College, and whether the schools would even qualify to get free baseland under a federal program meant for nonprofits that provide services to the community at large and not just to members of one church. At this point in time, the authority had forced Wayne to trim his request from 22 acres down to two acres and two buildings.

According to the story, a spokesman for the US Department of Education said the government had questions because the schools had given them, quote, vague information about their financial status and educational programs. He said, quote, I think they were under the impression that what they submitted originally was satisfactory. I would prefer clearer information and to see further details about what they proposed to do. Wayne, of course, told the paper that he had given the government everything they'd asked for. And the paper listed the problems with Wayne's

application. For one, there were no audited financial figures to prove that they could renovate the theater and bowling alley. Wayne was already on the record as saying that he didn't have an accounting firm look into their finances because it's too expensive to do that. The school also hadn't shown that it would be sustainable for the next 30 years. Here's a fun quote from the government spokesman. "'If they run into financial difficulties

two or three years from now, we all have some very serious legal problems.'" Also a problem? The school was not accredited by the state or federal governments, and its, quote, certificate of accreditation came from a group called Accrediting Commission International, which has been called fake, substandard and

meaningless by other states. The subject of lawsuits and even rejected for not meeting the credit transfer standards were a South Carolina diploma. This lack of accreditation didn't make it impossible, though, for Wayne to get the property, but he would be required to pay 20% of the value of the land, and he hadn't even proven that he could afford that. Even though Wayne told the paper that, quote, the schools have enough money, which is confusing because he said that it was too expensive to get the audited financial figures.

The government also said that it was concerned about for-profit enterprises operating on the property should they transfer to Wayne. Quote, a general idea of what they want to do is not good enough, the Department of Education said. In July 1997, Wayne was approved to buy the land for 20% of what was a reduced value because of the school's lack of accreditation. According to a report at the time, it would cost the church around $50,000 to secure the property.

Wayne told a news reporter at the time that he planned to appeal the ruling to get a better deal. He is also quoted as saying that the school in Bible College owned about $1.5 million of property near the I-95 interchange in Florence and could use that to help finance the deal. Um, what? Didn't he say he couldn't provide a thorough financial report to the government, which wanted it to determine if he qualified for the program to get the land because having an accountant costs too much money? Interesting math, Wayne. Did you teach that to yourself at one of your unaccredited schools?

Anyway, Wayne told a paper that he expected the schools to have a combined 300 students that fall. A letter to the editor ran a few months later from a woman named Shirley Kirby who said she didn't want public money going to Wayne's projects. She couldn't believe the government was even entertaining the deal. If he wants to have an operation such as this, then he should be required to pay the full amount for the property the same as any other business.

In the meantime, Wayne kept running weekly ads touting both the church and Grand Strand Academy. All of this was going on the year before JP is accused of raping Jane Doe number one in two years before he is accused of raping Jane Doe number 1 in two years before he was accused of sexually assaulting Jane Doe number 2. And a reminder, both Janes were children at the time. I want to leave you with this.

According to court records we've read and other sources, Wayne really did seem to see the Academy as another extension of his ego, which we'll get into in a future episode. But just think about what that ego must have been like back then. He was run out of town because of sexual assault allegations. He was the subject of a multi-part news series on a local TV station. From where we sit, it looks like Wayne, a man who likely instructed his flock to be humble and take stock of their moral failings, couldn't be bothered to follow his own advice. Instead, he seemed to double down, as good old boys do, and got louder, angrier, and even more entitled.

He wasn't hiding, he was out there, on the cover of newspaper sections, asking for handouts, threatening the wrath of God as if he was God's boss to anyone who dared to question him or withhold whatever he wanted, acting under the guise of an entity that provided a service, help to the community he set up shop in. And in the meantime, according to these two lawsuits, two children, two girls whose lives had not even had a chance to start, whose families trusted Wayne and the church

because he told them they could. They were suffering. Because in a world like Wayne and JP Miller's, there are only two people who matter. The father and the son. There have now been two lawsuits filed against the Millers in their churchy businesses, which brings the total of child sex abuse allegations against JP Miller to three. Ten months ago, a former church member posted allegations against JP Miller, including that he had a sexual relationship with her when he was an adult and she was just 15 years

old. We're being told that more allegations are expected. This doesn't even count the allegations contained in Micah's list, where JP is alleged to have raped Micah in her hospital bed during one of her stays. Like I said, JP is about to face heat and sunlight from these lawsuits like he's never seen before. Oh, and since JP began his crusade to silence the protesters outside of his church, ironically and beautifully, the protests have only gotten bigger, and the chants are not only demanding justice for Micah, they're demanding justice for Jane Doe too.

They are demanding justice for all Jane Does. If you or someone you know attended Cathedral Baptist Church, Cathedral Bible College, Grand Strand Academy, Cathedral Hall Academy, or any of the Miller's church entities, and you or someone you know have information that might be important to Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2's pursuit of justice, please contact attorney Randy Hood through his law firm McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips by calling 855-720-0258, which is answered 24-7. If you believe you have information that could be helpful to our reporting, please message us through social media or email info at lunasharkmedia.com.

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