During the FBI investigation, haunting new footage of the late Mica Miller emerges

John-Paul Miller, 44, allegedly warned Mica’s family that he was “armed” and “ready,” claiming “Mica could handle all this” as her family threatened to call the police or send another relative if he showed up at her home.

“My blood is on you and my children will know it. All you had to do was come home to me. But I’m not even that important to you,” John-Paul Miller, a father of five children from his previous marriage, is said to have written in another series of messages to Mica.

“You only had to love me enough to come home to me, but I’m not that important to you. I love you, I’m sorry.”

“If you come home today, we can take the rest of the year off and go to counseling every day. Go to Iceland. Do whatever it takes to get well.”

“I really want a child with you too. I’m just scared to do it. That’s the only reason I wouldn’t do it. I’m scared of divorce or of exposing the child to things like that where you walk away and aren’t willing to do whatever it takes.”

The alleged messages were shared before federal authorities were called in to investigate Mica’s death. The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said it had requested assistance from the FBI and the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office because questions had arisen about Miller’s relationship with her estranged husband.

Before her death, Mica posted a video on her Facebook account in which she addressed “abuse.” Divorce documents received from NewsNation on May 13 showed that Mica accused John-Paul of abusing her “emotionally, sexually, spiritually, financially and physically.”

“He has physically and electronically harassed me with letters, phone calls, emails, and text messages, hacked my email and personal Facebook and posed as me. He has used my stolen phone to fake text messages and emails to church members, sent text messages to friends and family saying I was sleeping with teenagers from our church, and shown up in person at locations around town… He installed three different tracking devices on my car,” Mica wrote.

John-Paul Miller has also been accused by critics and internet sleuths of manipulating his wife because she joined his church at age 14, when he was already working as a pastor. Miller casually admitted in a video the church posted online on May 11 that he visited his wife’s body four times in the morgue and tried to “raise her from the dead” during a 20-minute speech at Mica’s funeral on May 5.

“Every time I still didn’t understand it, I thought she would wake up – once this week I even tried to raise her from the dead,” he said.

Miller claims he saw a woman resembling his late wife on a wall and called out “Mica,” only to find out it was one of her sisters.

“I thought I had raised her from the dead… I can’t wait to see her again someday,” he said.

Robeson County Coroner Richard Johnson told ABC15 It was subsequently determined that Mica had committed suicide on May 6.

“Due to the nature of the wound, it is a self-gun wound. And it was not in the back of the head as was speculated,” Johnson said.

The Robeson County Emergency Management Agency said it received a 911 call from a woman who allegedly threatened suicide and wanted to know if her family could locate her phone on the day of Miller’s death. FOX Carolina was reported on May 7. The woman reportedly hung up and the dispatcher was unable to reach her, but pinpointed the location of the call to the Lumber River State Park area in North Carolina.

A black Honda Accord, confirmed to belong to Miller, was found by State Park Rangers in a parking lot. There was a Sig Sauer gun case on the passenger seat, a box of ammunition in the center console, and a receipt for the gun dated the day of Miller’s death.

Authorities then received another 911 call from a person who said a body and a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol with a serial number matching the gun case in the Accord had been found in the park’s water. Miller’s phone and belongings were also reportedly found at the scene.

The new information was released amid speculation about John-Paul’s involvement in his wife’s death. Mica’s sister publicly claimed she warned her “multiple times”: “If I end up with a bullet in my head, it was JP,” according to WBTWPolice determined that the pastor was allegedly seen traveling on Highway 17 in Horry County on the day of his wife’s death.

If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, please call National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the USA at 800-273-8255, text HOME to 741741 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/Resources for additional resources.