[ominous music rises]
[operator] Robeson County 911.
What's the address of your emergency?
[woman] Hi. Are you able
to trace the location of my phone?
[operator] Let me see.
You don't know where you're at?
[woman] A national park.
[operator] Um…
Where's the park located at?
[woman] In…
Fair Bluff?
[operator] Let's see…
[woman] I have my location on,
I think, on my phone.
Just did my share lo… my location.
[operator] The Lumber River State Park?
In--
[woman] Yeah, that's where I am.
[operator] Tell me what's, um, happened.
[woman] Um…
I'm about to
k*ll myself.
And…
I just want my family
to know where to find me.
[operator] Okay, ma'am.
Just listen to what I'm saying, okay?
Let me make sure I got the exact location
where you're at, okay?
Just one minute.
[line clicks]
[intense music playing]
[interviewer] What do you think happened
to Mica?
We were told so many conflicting scenarios
of what happened that day.
[woman 2] Nothing added up.
[man] For her to drive an hour and a half
into the middle of nowhere
makes absolute zero sense.
[reporter] She's survived by her husband,
the pastor at Solid Rock Church.
I'm gonna have you stand up,
and I'm gonna make an announcement.
[voice breaking] My wife has passed away.
I told them for years this would happen.
And I said, "If she gets off her medicine,
suicide is… is the next thing."
He is lying.
This case has been eating me up
because I know there was foul play.
I know that she did not k*ll herself.
There's incredible danger in unmet needs.
[woman 3] "What happened?
Can you tell me?"
He said, "I can tell you
it was not an accident."
Mica Miller's family and friends want
to know what happened to her.
God hates divorce,
but does abuse hurt people?
How do you think God feels about that?
When your husband wants sex,
God does not send an angel from Heaven
to take care of that.
And she always told me
she was afraid of what he could do.
-[Mica] Walk away.
-I'll show you the pictures.
-[Mica] Do you want to go to jail?
-They'll be on Facebook in a few hours.
He always threatened her
that he would ruin her image
and that she would never serve
in another church again.
[roars with laughter]
I'll fight tooth and nail
to get what I want.
What I want is
the only thing that matters.
Stop, Mica, stop!
[woman 4] Mica told me she was afraid
for her life.
She said, "I don't wanna die."
She said, "He's gonna put
a b*llet in my head
and told everybody I k*lled myself."
[intense music subsides]
[choir singing to the tune
of Justin Bieber's "Baby"]
♪ Save me, save me, save me, Lord Christ ♪
♪ Save me, save me, save me, Lord… ♪
[woman 1] I think people gravitate
toward a church community
because it gives them purpose.
Watch Mica from the perspective
of the stage, singing.
And she just… when she sang, she had
such a… way of you feeling close to God.
-[tune of "Rolling in the Deep"]
-♪ Turn my sorrows ♪
-♪ Into treasured gold ♪
-[choir] ♪ Oh! ♪
♪ You'll pay me back in time ♪
♪ I trust you with my soul… ♪
[woman 2] From the moment
I walked through the door at Solid Rock,
I fell in love, absolutely in love.
I wanted to hide,
but everybody was so loving.
There's people at the front.
They're welcoming you.
They lead you to your seat.
I left feeling like I found
a church home for life.
[somber music rises]
[Bruna] The first time I met Mica,
she walked off the stage,
and I told her, "I'm staying here
because your worship is amazing!"
And she said,
"I hope you stay for Jesus." [chuckles]
[excited chatter]
[Bruna] Shortly after that,
I texted her, invited her for coffee.
She told me her life story,
how she met JP Miller,
and how their relationship got started.
[JP] So, here's what happened.
This servant,
who just had $52 million debt
completely canceled.
I mean, just imagine,
all that money canceled.
This servant goes out and finds
another servant that owes him 100 dollars.
You can look at your house.
And this servant beats the snot out
of this servant and says,
"Give me my money!"
-[churchgoers laughing]
-[JP laughs] That was good.
You little preacher! That was good.
Give me your hand. That was good.
[gentle, reflective piano music playing]
[woman] Mica, out of, I think all of us,
was the most strong in her faith.
Mica knew her purpose.
Mica knew her calling.
"I'm gonna be in the ministry,
and I'm gonna help people."
"And everyone's gonna know about Jesus."
We used to giggle, but actually,
it ended up becoming her reality.
I am one of six siblings.
As far back as I can remember,
we've always had God in our life.
And I think all of us have kind of tried
to hold on to that a bit as we grew up.
Wichita, Kansas, was our home
until my mother had remarried.
And then they ended up moving
and picking a spot in Myrtle Beach.
-[static crackling]
-[children shouting]
[young Mica] There you go. Whoa.
Ooh, it's cold! Holy crap!
-[girl] Mommy!
-[man laughs]
-[girl] Mommy!
-These are really sharp seashells.
-[man] Sharp seashells?
-[girl] Look! A crab!
-Sharp seashells. [exclaims]
-[girl] Look!
Moving to a place where you've never been
and you have no idea who anybody is,
finding a church is one way to start.
I think finding a church
is almost why we're in this chair.
[choir singing upbeat tune]
Solid Rock was a little church
on the side of the road
near where we lived,
and we happened to stop in.
[energetic music playing]
There was around 20
to maybe 30 people on a good Sunday.
Pastor John-Paul's sermons were
almost like a therapy session. [chuckles]
Character is who we really are
on the inside.
Character is, um, what's going on
deep inside of your motives.
Why you do what you do, the way you think.
[Nate] John-Paul had a wife.
He had a few kids.
Just a cool guy, very outgoing.
-You go to school, I'm sure?
-Yeah, sir.
And you don't have
to say "yes, sir" to me.
[laughs] I'm kidding you, dude.
[woman] He has charisma.
It was something that stuck out to me,
and I think it resonated
a lot with people.
[excited chatter]
[Sierra] I remember everybody being
so welcoming to us.
We started attending pretty regularly.
How many of y'all
want a cupcake after church?
Good. They're $50 each.
Thank you for being so generous.
[churchgoers laugh]
[Nate] It was awesome.
Just different community,
different vibe, different feel.
♪ Throw cares away ♪
♪ Christmas is here, bringing good cheer
To young and old, meek and the bold… ♪
[Abigail] The choir needed people in it.
So yeah, "We can sing. Let's go."
It was something fun.
It was something we enjoyed doing.
-♪ All caroling ♪
-♪ One seems to hear… ♪
[Anna] Mica had the most confidence.
A year into us joining Solid Rock,
Mica's talents were being used onstage.
[choir] ♪ Your holy name… ♪
My whole family
is very musically talented,
but Mica has the best voice.
♪ And I would be nothing without you… ♪
[Nate] She loved singing.
♪ Oh! ♪
She was just extremely talented.
[somber music rises]
[Sierra] A few years
after we moved to Myrtle Beach,
my mother and stepfather
decided to divorce,
and we had to move out
of my stepdad's house.
For a while, we didn't have a house,
so we were at a hotel until we got
a house that was rentable to us.
Mica took it the hardest.
If she felt some type of way
or she was in a situation
she didn't understand,
she would look for a scripture
to back it up.
Oh, man. Those pages are thin.
-What verse?
-Psalms 91…
One day at church,
John-Paul came up to talk to us.
He said, "If you girls ever need anything,
you can call me,
and you can reach out to me,
and you're always welcome."
After the divorce,
Mica made church her lifestyle.
She just kinda took it
to a whole new level.
♪ Glory to his name forever ♪
♪ Come on, glory! ♪
-♪ Glory ♪
-♪ Oh, glory! ♪
Mica was 16
when she became the worship leader.
A worship leader is
somebody who is in charge of the choir.
Usually that's someone at least
in their 20s and 30s, not 16 years old.
[JP] What are you gonna say, Mica?
The altar's open
for anybody that needs prayer.
There's prayer partners
if you need anything specific prayed for.
[uplifting piano music playing]
For Mica, getting more involved
with the church
helped her just keep going.
♪ Let the angels say ♪
[both] ♪ That baby Jesus will be… ♪
But that's when her…
her and Jeremy met at Solid Rock.
♪ See to believe ♪
♪ They say hallelujah… ♪
Mica met Jeremy.
They were both in high school.
Jeremy was a member of Solid Rock
when we started attending.
And I remember Mica meeting Jeremy,
and she just…
She loved this boy.
[gentle music playing]
He would carry her around
and walk her in his arms,
and they were just inseparable,
and it was young love.
[Abigail] He was a godly man.
He served church,
and him and Mica had things
that they both were interested in.
[announcer] Your Miss Socastee High School
[crowd cheering and applauding]
Hi!
[Sierra] I think Mica knew early on
that she wanted to be a pastor's wife.
And I really did think, you know what?
They're gonna grow up, get married,
start a church or an orphanage
or some kind of ministry.
[tender acoustic guitar music playing]
[churchgoers chuckle]
[Mica] No freakin' way!
-No way!
-[churchgoers laugh]
[Mica] Yes.
[woman] Oh!
[churchgoers cheer and applaud]
[Sierra] Mica was 18 when Jeremy proposed.
She was so excited to get married.
She was just, like,
butterflies and all excited.
"Do I look pretty?
Does my dress fit good?"
And she was just, like, giddy.
[woman squeals] Oh, look!
Oh, you make me cry,
and I gotta go to work.
-I know. It's gorgeous!
-[Mica] And I love the train. Oh my gosh!
[sighs] I love it so much.
I can't wait to get the veil on.
[JP] By the power vested in me…
[wedding guests chuckle]
…by the state of South Carolina
and from Almighty God,
I pronounce you husband and wife.
You can kiss your bride!
[wedding guests cheering]
Mica's wedding to Jeremy
was held at Solid Rock,
and John-Paul Miller officiated it.
Jeremy saw John-Paul as a leader.
Jeremy felt a sense of security
and aspiration to be like him
when he grew up.
And Mica was always at the church
with Jeremy.
And obviously, John-Paul
would be there, being the pastor.
So that's where her involvement
really kind of took off.
Their congregation grew.
They were able to move
to a bigger building.
[Abigail] Mica became
John-Paul's assistant
after she married Jeremy.
So she was at the church
a majority of her week
with whatever he asked her to do.
Getting his sermons together.
Getting notes together.
Putting PowerPoints together.
♪ Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from Heaven above… ♪
She also became the Millers' babysitter.
She loved it.
She loved having responsibility.
Mica was so heavily influenced
by John-Paul
because he was 15 years older than her.
He was her pastor.
He was her mentor.
He was her church leader.
Mica and Jeremy, they did a lot
of double dates with John-Paul and Ali.
All of them spent a lot of time together.
[band performing upbeat tune]
[Sierra] Three years into Mica
and Jeremy's marriage,
John-Paul would text her and be like,
"Hey, you're so amazing.
You're so beautiful. You're so sweet."
"Can I take you to lunch
to show you my appreciation?"
And then he started texting her,
you know, more romantically,
and it kind of spiraled from there.
Lust is a thought pattern
that st*lks every single person,
no matter how long you've been in church.
how godly you think you are,
or how much scripture you know.
It does not matter how much you love
your spouse when it comes to lust.
You cannot think,
"Well, my spouse loves me so much,
so he or she will never battle lust."
That is not how it works at all.
You can love your spouse 100%
and still battle lust.
[birds singing]
[intriguing music playing]
I had been going to Solid Rock
for probably four or five weeks.
And one Sunday morning, JP stood up
behind the pulpit and just said,
"I've had a moral failing in my marriage."
[dramatically] I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Let me just get a drink of water.
[Nate] I remember getting a call
from Mica.
She was bawling her eyes out.
Her and John-Paul were having an affair.
She was so, so sorry.
Mica texted all of us,
"I need to admit to my sins."
[Abigail] His wife, Ali, had gone
through John-Paul's phone
and found a text message saying,
"I love you, Mica."
And so, Ali had asked Mica,
"Why is he saying 'I love you?'"
And Mica told her everything.
She kinda had so many emotions going on.
You know?
She always wanted to do the right thing.
She said, "I'm gonna divorce Jeremy."
She just had this huge amount of guilt.
[ominous music playing]
[Anna] Mica asked me
to go to church with her,
and I could just feel the eyes on her.
The word in the church was spreading
about Mica and John-Paul's affair.
[Nate] All hell broke loose at the church.
John-Paul kept on reaching out to me.
He would apologize.
My ears were almost poppin',
I was getting so mad.
John-Paul was upset
that he was getting divorced,
but Ali didn't want
anything to do with him.
Everything went downhill for him,
and he started spiraling.
[ominous music swells]
[man] JP?
You all right, man?
-[JP moans]
-[man] You okay?
-[softly] Jesus…
-[man] Huh?
[slurring] Jesus…
[breathing shakily]
[man] Can't… You want… You want me
to make sure Mark's coming?
[sniveling] Yeah, I don't know his number.
I don't have my phone on me.
I don't have my phone.
[man] But somebody's called him, right?
Yes, the lady across the street called.
[man] Okay. All right.
[whimpering]
I feel like I have ants in my eyes.
[blubbering]
I miss my family so much.
I'd do anything!
-[man] You would?
-I'm so sorry. [high-pitched whine]
[sobs]
[woman] Solid Rock
was a congregation in crisis.
I am Pastor Pam Muise,
and I have known JP for over a decade.
I actually met JP's dad,
Wayne, before I met him.
I grew up in Myrtle Beach,
and Dr. Miller had been a pastor there.
When I met JP,
he was probably in his early 20s.
He was a young dad,
working in different churches
as a pianist.
As a church musician.
And he had an instantly recognizable,
ridiculously abundant gift for music.
[plays complicated piano flourish]
[Pam] It was in that process
that he said to me,
"I think I might wanna preach."
And I encouraged him.
A pastor is a person
who shepherds God's people.
JP was authentic in his desire
to serve God's people.
But things were going badly for him.
JP told me in person what had happened.
[voice breaking] And if this was
a one-time mistake…
who was I to refuse grace?
The affair with Mica was public,
and in his words,
"We are hemorrhaging members."
They wanted to believe their pastor,
but they loved Alison.
He was in a personal crisis.
JP said, "I need some stability here."
"I need somebody
who's seen by the congregation
as older and stable
and can help us heal."
The vast majority of the people
didn't know what to do next.
We are continuing
in the series Preparing for Eternity…
Part of my job was to bring
some comfort and some clarity
to remind the congregation
that everybody is redeemable,
that God is bigger than our mistakes.
There were a lot of people
that wanted to leave.
There were a lot of people
that wanted to stay and support JP.
God has already seen
everything you've ever done.
He's seen everything you're going to do.
And he's already forgiven you.
We got an email from John-Paul that said,
"It's funny how the last series I preached
was on tests, trials, and attacks."
"I can honestly say I need
to relisten to my own sermons."
"I sinned and disappointed you."
"The consequences of my actions are
far more horrific than you could imagine,
but I'm not going to turn my back on God."
"God has given me a gift."
"He has anointed me to speak his word."
I thought, "Oh, do I stay at this church?"
As crushing as it is,
Christians are supposed
to be about forgiveness.
I did not know the specifics of it.
And I was shocked
when I found out that it was Mica.
At this time, JP was 36 years old,
and Mica was 21.
-And, anyway… I lost my train of thought.
-[Mica giggles]
And, um…
I just always find it strange to see
such a large age gap in relationships.
[energetic music playing]
My husband had become friends
with Pastor John-Paul.
Uh, personal friends, outside of church.
JP came to us and said,
"What would you guys think
of me dating Mica?"
[JP] Isn't that great,
that when you commit adultery
and God, he says,
"I'm gonna keep pursuing you.
I'm gonna keep loving you."
"Every single day of your life."
And yet, he likens salvation to marriage.
She said, "We're trying
to make this mistake
that we made into something
that can bring God glory."
[Sierra] A couple months later,
I visited Mica.
We were walking on the beach,
and she showed me that John-Paul's
signature was tattooed on her side.
A full-on signature
on my sister's body permanently.
Like ownership.
[Victoria] We had worship team
at the church.
[Nate] You're spending late nights
rehearsing music
and then performing on Sunday.
One night, there was this random girl
that shows up that nobody knew.
The next thing I know,
I'm getting a message from her saying,
"JP and his girl need to talk."
She said, "We've been
kind of seeing each other on the side."
"He's been trying to get me
to sleep with him,
and all we've done is kiss,
but I just feel so bad about it,
and I just wanted someone to know."
I just remember reading them like,
"Are you… are you freakin' serious?"
I told Mica, "JP's cheating on you."
She didn't initially believe me
until I showed her the messages.
She was hurt and embarrassed.
Mica had her mind set
that she was done with him.
She didn't talk to him for a few days.
And then, all of a sudden,
he came over one day.
They were both at the kitchen table,
and they were just talking,
mushy-gushy to each other.
[Sierra] He said, "It was just a mistake.
I won't do it again."
He love-bombed her.
It made her feel standing by his side
would fix a lot
of their relationship problems.
John-Paul had given her a timeline.
"This is whenever
I'm gonna propose to you."
"This is how long
we have to stay engaged."
"And then on this day,
then we'll get married."
And she said that John-Paul
had lined it all out for her.
[onlookers cheering]
[Mica] Well, yes, anyway. Yes.
[crowd cheers and applauds]
[Mica exclaims]
She wanted it to be
the most beautiful wedding ever.
But she started having insecurities.
I'm sure he was comparing her
to these other women.
Mica never mentioned
she wanted to have a breast augmentation
until after she was with John-Paul.
I think he made my sister feel
like she wasn't beautiful enough.
And so she had to get this operation done
to be the perfect woman in his eyes.
[Sierra] After the surgery,
she had a horrible reaction
with the sedatives that they gave her,
and she just started spiraling.
[JP] How… What did you say?
We weren't talking about that.
About, um… [clicks tongue]
Uh, it made me think of…
The robe getting kicked.
He… he got kicked in jail. Oh!
[Mica] …them.
I've never been able to sell a…
JP said that the anesthesia
caused psychotic episodes.
[rapidly] They didn't deserve it.
They didn't earn it.
But they humbled themselves
and bowed down when they realized
how successful he had gotten.
And they followed him humbly.
And he set a residual income,
like I'm trying to do for my family.
Land, sheep, the best of the land.
People respected them,
even though they didn't earn it.
Because of what Joseph had done.
He took on a new identity.
He learned a new language.
John-Paul called me and said,
"Mica's having a manic episode."
[JP] What does that mean?
When you… I learned Spanish
and sign language, you know, short…
And you called me crazy for it,
but Joseph learned--
[JP] You said you learned Spanish
and sign language in one day.
I did!
[Sierra] The next thing I know,
John-Paul was the one
pushing to have her institutionalized.
And our family was saying no.
…by a language barrier.
[Nate] Up until that point,
Mica had never been to the doctor
for any sort of mental issues at all.
-Go ahead, double record me.
-[JP] I am.
[Nate] The family was kind of in a frenzy.
I was just… I was so upset.
It was out of our hands.
We could not do a single thing.
The doctors admitted her
to a mental institution.
We were able to go sit with her,
but only with John-Paul present.
He wouldn't let us go without him.
She looked so broken.
Like she was feeling defeated.
She's been diagnosed with bipolar.
It just didn't make any sense.
My husband, his mother was bipolar,
and he grew up with that.
So I really leaned on him.
He told me a lot about his experience.
[unsettling music rises]
[indistinct chatter]
[Erica] Her bipolar
may have been triggered
by a stressful situation.
[high-pitched ringing]
[Mica cheers]
[music peaks, fades]
[JP] But, honey, this is not you.
You're not you.
You're not you.
[Erica] What is this gonna look like
for JP and Mica moving forward?
He has to be a caretaker now to someone
who has now a new mental illness.
This is a little bit terrifying.
[Sierra] Now we're very scared
for John-Paul
to have control over her medically.
["From This Moment On" playing]
[wedding singer]
♪ There is nothing I wouldn't give… ♪
[Sierra] After Mica was released
from the mental hospital,
John-Paul and Mica had
a wedding at Solid Rock.
[foreboding music playing]
I wanted to just make sure
that I was there for Mica.
To do what I could as her brother.
[Victoria] We had to pretend
that everything was happy, normal.
That nothing was wrong.
They were just in love,
and… they wanted to get married.
I just attended just to be there for Mica,
but I did not support their marriage.
She wanted me to be there,
so I was gonna be there.
I was very worried for her.
We always said we were gonna do
five promises, but I just have one.
That I'll be yours 100%.
to make your dreams come true.
I give to you.
I'm not gonna try to beat that.
[wedding guests laugh]
Just kidding.
I promise to always strive
to continuously lead you to Jesus.
[clears throat]
[voice breaking]
I promise to always support
your enthusiastic personality.
[sniffles]
I promise to remain faithful,
loyal, and encouraging to you.
And I promise to strive
to love you the way Christ
loved the church and gave himself for it.
[Abigail] I thought it was very wrong.
I thought something was going on,
and I just didn't agree with any of it.
[wedding guests cheering]
-[woman 1] Oh, good, Mark.
-[woman 2] Hey!
JP and Mica, beautiful wedding.
-Hey! Congratulations, you guys!
-[woman 3] Yeah!
Hey, JP and Mica. Congratulations.
[Mark] All right, guys.
I've known John-Paul,
unfortunately, for quite a while.
[guests chuckle]
He, like, forced me to be his friend.
[guests laugh]
Forced me to be his best man.
But he does love… love Mica very much,
and we all wish them the best
and happiest future.
[guests laugh and cheer]
[Nate] Now he is her husband.
He's responsible for her.
But also… control.
[JP] One of the things
that I absolutely love about Mica.
She knows everything about me.
All my… my flesh patterns,
my shortcomings.
And she still respects me
and thinks my sermons are great.
She can quote 'em all.
She thinks I'm the wisest man.
Don't tell her otherwise.
Don't you say… Whatever you think.
But a wife must show respect and honor
if you wanna keep
that relationship healthy.
[Bruna] JP and Mica look
like they're the ultimate couple.
When I first joined Solid Rock,
they were like, "This is
what I want my marriage to look like."
Good morning, Solid Rock.
How's everybody doing today?
-Good?
-[crowd] Yeah!
[Bruna] I was going through a divorce.
I got to share my life
and my divorce story with Mica.
And she looked at me,
and she said the most profound thing.
She said, "On your story,
I'm the other woman."
And she said, "I'm so sorry
for your pain the divorce caused you,
and everything your kids went through."
And she said, "I… I did that,
and… and I don't wanna hide it from you."
"I want you to know the truth."
So she told me her sin.
That she and JP Miller
first started in adultery.
And that was very real.
Like, I saw the real her.
So I hugged her very tight.
And I said, "I forgive you,
and I know God has forgiven you."
And I think that was the first time
we truly healed each other a little bit.
[Charlotte] When we first started
attending Solid Rock,
my husband was
a new Christian at the time,
and John-Paul's sermons…
He was a very captivating person onstage.
For a pastor, I'll feed you today,
and you'll get full,
then you're gonna come back next week,
and I gotta feed you all over again.
And then feed you again and then feed you…
[high-pitched] And it's
a bit tiring, but I love it! Okay, so…
Once we started attending regularly,
Mica approached me and said, you know,
"I really wanna get to know you."
After that, we were texting every week,
calling, setting up hangouts.
When Mica told me about the affair,
she wished she could have gone back
and done it differently.
However, she wanted to be
the best stepmother
that she could be to his kids, and…
they were just taking all steps
to make it work together.
-[JP] It was a dinosaur!
-[Mica] Yay!
It was a dinosaur!
-[JP roars playfully]
-[Mica giggles]
I was determined
that I would not like Mica.
I saw her then as the problem.
That did not last for long.
It was very easy to like Mica.
It was very easy to see
her giftings and abilities.
I just wanted to give you a… a dare today.
I dare you to do something
either good for yourself or someone else.
Because, like,
the second-greatest command,
"love your neighbor as yourself"…
[unsettling music playing]
[Charlotte] Mica told me multiple times,
"Don't call me before 11,
unless I call you first."
"John-Paul does not like it
if I get out of bed before him."
"So just don't call me.
I'll call you first in the morning."
Where I was like,
well, that's weird and unhealthy.
Mica told me that she took
lithium and Seroquel for bipolar.
The way that her body reacted
to being on these medications,
Mica was just very self-conscious
about weight gain.
And we started going to a gym together,
She had, I would say,
max three hours to hang out.
Right around the two-hour mark,
he would call her.
Twenty minutes later, he'd call her again.
And ten minutes later,
five minutes later, five minutes later.
Finally, if she wasn't leaving
when he wanted her home
or needed her, he'd show up.
Mica was very open about everything.
Like, herself, her relationship to God.
[worship music playing]
She told me that she was diagnosed
with bipolar,
but I always felt like
when it came to her marriage issues,
I wasn't hearing it all.
It was very vague conversations, like,
"Oh yeah, we got in an argument
this morning too,
so we're not doing so well."
And we were all like,
"Oh yeah, certainly. We'll pray for you."
"Anything we can help with?"
She's like, "No, I'll be okay.
You know how it is." And that was it.
[Mica] Hey, everybody.
I just wanted to share
the chorus of a song
that came to my head the other day.
Uh, I was just battling thoughts.
I wanted to sing this quick
and see if it encourages you.
I hope it does.
Um, but it's, uh… it says,
♪ I pray for your healing
Circumstances will change ♪
♪ I pray that the fear inside will flee
In Jesus's name ♪
[Charlotte] Even though
we were very close,
it took a year and a half
for Mica to open up to me
about any kind of troubles.
It took her a while to kind of pass
that boundary of talking
about him in any kind of negative way.
But once she did start opening up to me,
I started noticing
more significant red flags.
[tense music playing]
She said, "I really wanna be supportive
of John-Paul in our marriage
and take all temptation away from him
to wander outside of the marriage."
"So, you know, we do something sexual
every single day."
I mean, no breaks allowed.
And if there were days off,
you better believe
he's getting it from somewhere.
Ladies, wives, if you don't meet
your husband's sexual needs,
Satan will put 20 different options
before his eyes
before the day's over with.
Mica talked to me quite a bit
about their sexual relationship
between her and JP.
She would say, "Well, we have sex
four times a day."
And I was like, "What?!"
That is… Do you like that?
I get his whole biblical stance on like,
"Don't ever say no to your husband."
But I'm sorry, that's ridiculous.
I've never seen anything like it.
He was our pastor.
Just opening up to me about that
was a big step,
so I didn't want to make her feel
that I'd crossed that boundary
into saying, "Well, gosh.
That's not okay."
I wanted to make her feel heard,
but not judged.
But can't you just not have an affair?
Matthew 5:28 says whoever looks at a woman
in lust has committed adultery with her
in his heart.
Man and woman.
A woman looks at a woman
in lust, adultery.
[crickets chirping]
[Charlotte] I reached out to Mica. I said,
"Hey, I'd love to see you before we're all
off for Thanksgiving and traveling."
And she said, "Things aren't good
in the Miller household now."
[gloomy string music playing]
[Sierra] Mica texted me and said,
"Can I come visit?"
So I said, "Yeah, that's fine.
Is everything okay?"
Mica had been very private
about everything.
After coming to my home,
she confided in me.
She said that John-Paul
would not stop asking her,
"If you could kiss any girl,
who would it be?"
And she said she didn't wanna answer it.
She felt uncomfortable.
Like, why would he be asking her
stuff like this?
Like, they're married.
That's inappropriate.
And she said he wouldn't stop asking her,
so she said that she thought
of the safest person
who she could think of,
which was Charlotte.
Which I thought was funny,
but he did not at all.
And because we were such great friends
and were spending so much time together,
it totally turned into a… a dark answer,
or dark moment for him, where he said,
"Well, what is your relationship
with Charlotte?"
And, "Have y'all kissed?
And, well, what feelings do you have?"
Then he starts saying, like,
"You're having an affair with her."
She said he was acting crazy.
Like, "I wasn't safe to be there anymore."
"I had to leave."
The next thing I know, I get put
into a group message
with JP, Mica, and myself.
"Charlotte is in this text
so she can hold me accountable for this."
"You can't treat someone like sh*t
and then leave."
"I need you to act
like a godly wife this one time
and prioritize your marriage
over your family, friends, and feelings."
"What you've done in our marriage
this time is totally unacceptable,
and no man would put up with it."
And Mica said,
"Why are you being so crazy?"
"I just wanted to visit my sister."
"Why put your sister before your husband?"
"I'm coming to you."
"You're a horrible wife to do this."
"When I arrive, I'm going to raise hell."
And Mica said,
"If you come here, you're trespassing."
"I don't care. That's funny."
"You can call cops. You did this."
And Mica said, "I don't feel safe."
"Mica, that's such a cop-out. Liar."
"You always say that to be able to leave."
"There's only one way this will work."
"You come home now."
I was absolutely floored.
-[engine revving]
-[suspenseful music rises]
[Sierra] John-Paul texted me at 9:38 p.m.
And he said, "I'm on the way
to your house. Be there at 12:55."
And I said, "Matthew," who is my husband,
"Matthew will not let you inside."
"We are not gonna have
none of this tonight."
He said, "That's fine.
You can call the cops."
[music peaks, dies down]
[car horn blares]
[Sierra] "I'm armed, and I'm ready."
[suspenseful music fades out]
[sinister string music playing]
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