COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller
August 27, 2026
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5 min readOn April 27, 2024, 30-year-old Mica Francis Miller, a Myrtle Beach woman in the middle of divorcing her pastor husband, called 911. “I’m about to kill myself, and I just want my family to know where to find me.” It was the last time anyone heard her voice. When she died, she had purposely left behind a paper trail of evidence—clues for someone, somewhere, to find and expose the people and systems that led to her death.
This is the story at the heart of COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller, a new drop-feed podcast from Luna Shark Productions, based on reporting by journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell. Over 18 months, they investigated a web of coercive control, failed systems, and alleged abuse that stretched far beyond one woman’s tragic end. Their reporting uncovered over a dozen lawsuits, sexual assault allegations, another mysterious death, a dark history of medical abuse, generational trauma, a place called Glory Land, and even alleged bestiality.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Opening: The Final 911 Call & The Investigation Begins** - The episode opens with the audio of Mica Miller’s final 911 call on April 27, 2024, and sets up the scope of the investigation.
- 2 (00:38) **The Husband’s Reaction & The Scope of the Story** - The episode highlights the immediate aftermath of Mica's death and the broader narrative that will be covered.
- 3 (01:30) **The Core Thesis: Coercive Control & Systemic Failure** - The narrative is framed as an exposé of the coercive control Mica faced and the systems that failed her.
- 4 Standout Quotes
- 5 "I'm about to kill myself, and I just want my family to know where to find me." - Mica Miller's final 911 call.
- 6 "He said my blood is going to be on your hands. But prior to that, he was threatening to come in here and he said, call the cops, I don't care. I'm armed and ready." - Mica Miller speaking about her husband.
- 7 "Unfortunately, Mica couldn't save herself, but she could save other women who had been abused by their husbands and dismissed by the systems that are supposed to protect them." - Narrator Mandy Matney.
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Show Notes
COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller is a LUNASHARK® DROP-FEED from the award-winning team behind the Murdaugh Murders Podcast — investigative journalists Mandy Matney, Liz Farrell and Beth Braden — along with producers Kate Thomas, Grace Hills and David Moses. It’s a remastered, chronological retelling of more than 2 years of original reporting from the True Sunlight Podcast, built for listeners who want to follow one case.
On April 27, 2024, 30-year-old Mica Miller — wife of Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller — walked a mile into a North Carolina state park and made a 911 call that would be the last time the world heard her voice. Within days, her death was ruled a suicide — a ruling that would have ended the story for most true crime journalists.
In the premiere of our remastered Drop-Feed series, Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell return to where their reporting began: the bizarre sermon Pastor JP Miller delivered the morning after his estranged wife's death. An obituary that reads like a taunt. A criminal history that includes running over a woman with a car — twice. And a stack of police reports showing Mica tracked, harassed, and hospitalized against her will in the months before she died.
Police say that JP Miller didn't pull the trigger. But as Mandy and Liz explain — there's more than one way to end a life.
COERCED takes a deeper look at JP Miller’s dark past that includes rape allegations, alleged bestiality, an assault conviction and pardon, and a pattern of allegedly abusive behavior that can be traced back to his father — Rev. Wayne Miller. JP’s felon father once owned a Christian complex in South Carolina called Gloryland… before it mysteriously burned down.
Through exclusive interviews, 911 calls, court filings, and documents obtained through relentless FOIA requests, COERCED examines coercive control, medical and spiritual abuse, and the systems that dismissed a woman fighting for her life — and asks what accountability looks like.
Mica couldn't save herself. But her story could save others.
This series discusses domestic abuse, coercive control, and suicide. If you or someone you know needs support, please call or text 988 or contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233. Support in South Carolina is also available through Liza’s Lifeline.
Stay tuned. Stay pesky. And Stay in the Sunlight. ☀️
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