Death of the Pastor’s Wife: What Happened to Mica Miller?

Content warning: This story discusses suicide.

Mica Miller put faith before everything—including, according to friends and family, her own safety.

“Out of all of us, she was the most strong in her faith,” her sister Destinee Barrientos shared in the new Netflix docuseries Death of the Pastor’s Wife, now streaming. “Mica knew her calling: ‘I’m going to be in the ministry and I’m going to help people.'”

And now Mica’s loved ones are wondering what more they could have done to help her. 

On April 27, 2024, Mica’s body was found in North Carolina’s Lumber River State Park, hours away from the 30-year-old’s home in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

“My wife has passed away,” her estranged husband John-Paul Miller, then the longtime pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, told congregants at his Sunday service the next day. He called Mica’s death “self-induced.”

Her five siblings, all of whom participated in the Netflix series, weren’t so sure—and they didn’t want authorities to assume anything, either.