A South Carolina pastor claims his trip to the morgue to revive his wife after she shot herself just days after filing for divorce was a Jesus-inspired act of desperation.
“Yes, I tried to resurrect her, because if it had worked, it would have been a completely different story,” John Paul Miller said in an interview with NewsNation’s Rich McHugh that aired Friday. “God forbid I didn’t try it. All my life I’ve wondered, ‘Would it have worked?’ Jesus did it. Elisha did it. I had to try.”
“There are several other characters in the Bible,” Miller added, “so if someone I love more than anything in this world were to die, and I believe it would be an untimely death, I would certainly … try to raise her from the dead in the name of Jesus.”
Micah Miller, 30, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on April 27 in Lumber River State Park in North Carolina after he was heard crying for several minutes.
Her death cast a shadow of suspicion over her husband, the pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach.
The Robeson County coroner ruled Micah’s death a suicide, but her family is calling for police to “thoroughly” investigate her death amid allegations that John Paul Miller abused her.
Prior to her death, Micah had made several calls to police and made several allegations against her husband, accusing him of slashing her tires, putting a tracking device on her car, hospitalizing her against her will and “training” her when she was just 10 years old and he was an adult.
But Miller strongly denies the allegations of seduction or abuse, pointing out that he was hundreds of miles away on the day she killed herself.
In an interview on Friday, John Paul Miller acknowledged that he wrote a letter of apology to Mika and apologized for many of the things he accused her of, but maintained that he did so to appease his wife and get her to take her medication.
“The last night she was with me, we were together for four hours and for the entire four hours I was trying to drug her, so that’s what I did,” he told NewsNation.
“And she said, ‘If you give me $10,000 and write me a letter of apology, I’ll take my pills and go home.’ So I did.”
The John Paul Miller interview will air on NewsNation on Friday at 10pm ET/9pm PT.
If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or Suicide Prevention Lifeline.org.
