Death of the Pastor’s Wife on Netflix follows Mica Miller, a Myrtle Beach worship leader who met pastor John-Paul Miller at Solid Rock Church when she was 13-years-old and later married him.
The three-part series traces how that relationship turned into isolation, surveillance, and control — slashed tires, a tracker on her car, alleged cyberstalking — and how, two days after he was served with divorce papers in April 2024, Mica was found at a North Carolina park, her death was ruled to be at her own hand. Her family and friends reject the idea that the story ends there, arguing she had told police she was afraid for her life and that the man she was trying to leave was the source of that fear.
John-Paul’s first wife, Alison Williams, did not appear in the Netflix docuseries. However, she had previously said in a sworn affidavit that she believed Mica Miller’s account of her relationship with JP. Just one month after Mica’s death, Alison gave the testimony as part of a custody modification case against. She said, “I was married to J.P. for 16 years. Although my story and what I lived through with J.P. were different in some ways, many of the details shared with me by Mica are so similar to my own experiences with J.P. that I know she was being truthful.”
On the affidavit, Williams also stated that JP admitted he had “employed prostitutes,” and been “sexually inappropriate with several underage female members” of their church.
The series has been a Netflix phenomenon since it dropped on Aug. 26. It immediately hit No. 1 on the English-language TV chart, stayed there into early September, and pulled about 19 million views and 43.3 million hours in its first official tracking week; it has also been reported as No. 1 in dozens of countries.
It is landing because viewers are not just watching a tragic relationship that ended in Mica’s death. They are watching a woman describe abuse inside a church marriage — a pastor husband who was supposed to represent devotion and protection — and recognizing the gap between the pulpit and what Mica said was happening at home.
