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The Death of Mica Acacia Francis, Part 23
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It's been a rough few weeks for JP and his father, Wayne. Let's talk about the lawsuits being dismissed filed by JP and Wayne, and the two bombshell suits filed against the Millers. We suspect we may see more suits against these two coming soon.
Warnings for domestic abuse, suicide, coercive control, sexual abuse, financial abuse, religious abuse, child abuse, physical abuse, mental health.
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Transcript
Introduction & Case Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to Fixate Today Gone Tomorrow. I'm Nikki and I'm here with my Aunt Joy. We are two neurodivergent ladies who obsess about various topics. Joy is autistic and I have ADHD and we are letting our hyperfixations fly.
00:00:14
Speaker
Today we are fixating on the death of Micah Francis.
00:00:29
Speaker
Welcome back, everybody. we are going to do the updates that we meant to do last week, but then we just started chit-chatting.
00:00:37
Speaker
We're staying on topic today. Yes. There's been a lot of stuff in in the last, I'd even say couple of months, but especially in the last couple of weeks ah yeah with the Micah case. So thought we'd give you guys some updates.
00:00:50
Speaker
Sources I'm using are content creator Robbie Harvey, True Sunlight Podcast, Fitz News, and WBTW News 13. It was really hard to say the letters.
00:01:03
Speaker
had to go really slow.
00:01:08
Speaker
Oh, goodness. All right. All right. So we're actually going all the way back to January 2025. Oh, I'll mention the date. It's March 16th, 2025 when we are recording.
00:01:21
Speaker
So if anything happens between now and when we release, it's not our fault. Which should be in two days. So I mean, you never know. You never know.
Legal Tactics and Challenges
00:01:31
Speaker
um So back in January, JP filed multiple lawsuits against protesters, um also some content creators.
00:01:38
Speaker
In February 2025, his father, Wayne, also filed lawsuits against the protesters. um Since then, over 30 of those lawsuits are over, most of which have been dropped or dismissed.
00:01:53
Speaker
However, JP told us they had been settled. I think we very briefly talked about this guy gosh, a few episodes ago in another update episode when we were talking about all these weird land and building filings, movings, asset switching that JP is doing. Mm-hmm.
00:02:13
Speaker
um But this attorney, Mark Brunty, he's been he was disbarred. ah He pled guilty to stealing one point five million dollars over 10 years ago. And that's what got him disbarred.
00:02:24
Speaker
However, he is helping JP in filing these like nonprofit and LLC documents. And I also think he's helping him with the lawsuits. Yeah. And that's what I was going to ask you.
00:02:35
Speaker
Okay, I see how he could be helping him with all the LLC and that. But when you are a disbarred attorney, can you help with, I guess, you know what, maybe you could file a lawsuit without even an attorney.
00:02:48
Speaker
He's just like helping him. know how to figure out the paperwork or whatever. It's my guess. He's like walking him through the paperwork. However, what's interesting is in the process of Brunty stealing all that money, it was found that he forges documents, bank records, promissory notes, ledgers, signatures, and notary stamps.
00:03:12
Speaker
We're just seeing the same things over and over again. i mean, it's just the same. They all use the same methods, I think. And You know, not accusing anyone of anything, but, you know, I kind of was going back through ah money laundering. And this kind of thing's classic.
00:03:29
Speaker
Not saying he's doing it, not saying they're, but it's just classic money laundering. It's what they're making it look like. Well, and and just in the case, like how many weird notary stamp things there are. And now we have two people.
00:03:43
Speaker
To attorneys or former attorneys who are linked to notary stamp stuff. Yep. So it's just another thing, guys. Just keep track of all the things.
00:03:56
Speaker
I don't think you can. Right? There's too many things. Oh, gosh. So in magistrate court on February 20th, this was ah regarding a lawsuit.
00:04:10
Speaker
I can't remember if it was against her, but one of the lawsuits JP had filed in this court hearing, the judge handed out packets to, I don't know if it I think the juries or like everybody in attendance.
00:04:22
Speaker
And it was printouts of text messages between Melissa Mancari Who is the, I believe she was paralegal who worked at the law firm that Micah, no, that JP called looking for an attorney who would like destroy Micah in a divorce.
00:04:44
Speaker
So that's her. These texts are between her, True Crime Re, the TikToker, and JP. And what these texts were, were JP and True Crime Ree asking Melissa to testify against the protesters in exchange for JP dropping his defamation case against her.
00:05:03
Speaker
Okay. What did those two have anything to do with the protesters, though? Nothing. You know what i mean? Like, did they observe or see the protesters? like It appears not.
00:05:14
Speaker
it It appears like He was just trying to leverage this defamation case that he's I don't mean I don't know if he's threatened it or if he's filed it, but was trying to use this leverage to get her to testify to the, quote, truth that he provided in the text messages um saying something about like, you saw them assault me or you saw me you saw them do this, this and this. And I think even in the text messages, she was like, i didn't see anything.
00:05:41
Speaker
So that's interesting. And I'll say this for a couple reasons from my personal experience. When he and I were texting, he was very careful with how he said things. And it was always like, you can say anything, you know, like, I mean, he made it like, he spelled it out every time. i am, you know, I don't even know what, it help but you can say anything I say. i am not in any way.
00:06:03
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. He was just very, very careful with that. Also, i just think it's interesting because I'm like, actually saw the protesters. And I mean, I know he asked the like church members if they would, because he asked that while I was there, asked if they would testify, which makes sense to me.
00:06:23
Speaker
i guess he has nothing over them. So so I do believe um a lot of them did. I just find it strange that these two people that he would be trying to coerce wouldn't Well, he wasn't. True Crime Ree was helping him.
00:06:36
Speaker
Do we know if who True true Crime Marie is? She's the TikToker that he like would do the videos with. So they just, I mean. it's some we don't I don't think we know who he or she is at this point, but it's someone who's like completely pro-JP and was like platforming him. Okay.
00:06:51
Speaker
Is she still out there? Is she still doing stuff? I have no I don't think so. Or there hasn't been anything in a while, but I could be wrong. Sorry. So JP had actually thought she would testify until this happened.
00:07:04
Speaker
um She reached out to the court immediately and, you know, gave them access to all of this. And after court, he allegedly texted Melissa, quote, touche.
00:07:16
Speaker
never knew would to use that word, but. Right. Apparently it's when someone bamboozles you about testifying on your behalf. Yeah. Apparently, to this point, Myrtle Beach Police Department isn't investigating this at all.
00:07:31
Speaker
They're just like, whatever. you can You can mess with witnesses. It's fine. i feel I feel for that. I'm going to say I feel for the police in some regards. They're probably like, oh, God, what now?
00:07:44
Speaker
What now? Dude, just what else? But also when there's glaringly like obvious things that they could be like, you can't do this, JP. It's illegal. They're not doing it. Yeah.
00:07:57
Speaker
Yeah. But all right. So a couple of days later, February 25th, JP was publicly offering to settle with protesters. However, on his terms, I think his terms were basically like, shut your mouths and I'll drop it.
00:08:12
Speaker
When nobody nobody responded favorly favorably to that, he threatened to have 100 witnesses testify against them. And I'll say he can get quite a few from the, I mean, his congregation. Yeah, he did.
00:08:24
Speaker
On Wednesday, the next day, February 26th, seven defendants were scheduled to appear in court. um And this was in JP's attempt to get restraining orders. And he had 40 people come to court to support him. I don't know if any who testified or anything like that, but he had support.
Protesters and Legal Fallout
00:08:41
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And I'll just outright say, I mean, when I was serviced, there was about 40 people and he outright said, I'm going to need you guys to come testify. um i mean, I have, I think a lot of this is smokescreen.
00:08:57
Speaker
Yeah. I think he is bringing continual attention to these protesters to keep people's attentions somewhere world else, quite honestly.
00:09:08
Speaker
And i mean, that's, and And I think I've said this before, but aye I think from a lot of the parishioners' standpoint, they they don't know everything going on. They just see the protesters. So from their standpoint, it's just...
00:09:25
Speaker
Yeah. yeah And yeah, that was just something I kind of got in the time there is everyone keeps like thinking that, that they are but like, they, they get everything that we're talking about and and all these lawsuits and all that.
00:09:40
Speaker
I don't know that they do. You mean the people who go to church? Yeah, yeah. I mean, on a day-to-day basis, i I've been seeing it from their perspective. They're seeing these protesters.
00:09:51
Speaker
It's frustrating. It's mean cutting trying to keep them from community. and And so they're just seeing it from that one perspective. And I guess I can kind of understand em how they would be there to testify on his part.
00:10:07
Speaker
But yeah, I think he, I think JP's using a lot of it as a smokescreen just to get attention off of other things he's doing. Well, and I also wonder, um well, I don't even wonder. I'm pretty sure he's likely told everybody who is still attending his church to ignore media, ignore content creators, ignore all that stuff.
00:10:28
Speaker
Or he's using his, you know, that manipulative way he uses his words to explain things away to them. Like, i'm I feel For sure. Yeah. sure I think you're right. They're like completely have their heads in the sand to a lot of the stuff going on. So then the protesters would just be irritating to them.
00:10:44
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And a lot of them are elderly. And so they don't yeahf go on to YouTube or podcasts. mean, yeah, i I can see how they would completely be able to really not know any of that going on. So I think some of us in this world yeah where we're watching it and we're keeping track and we're like, we think everyone is doing the same. yeah Yeah. Realistically, we're just weird.
00:11:11
Speaker
yeah Right. Sorry, guys. You're all weird with us. All right. However, at the court appearance, the judge told JP he had not him met his burden of proof and dismissed the restraining order cases.
00:11:23
Speaker
The judge said the protesters are exercising their First Amendment right. The civil cases are still standing at this point. um However, JP threatened the judge that he'll just file more lawsuits.
00:11:36
Speaker
Like he said that to the judge in court. And the judge didn't respond to that part. Can they do anything, you think, legally? I think there's, I could be wrong, but I feel like True Sunlight said something along the lines of like, there is a point where you're like, you're abusing the court. There's some sort of statute or something like that.
00:11:56
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um So they're like there is a possibility that that could happen. And again, just ah sorry, I don't mean to keep hearkening back to when I was there, but I mean, J.P. did talk a lot about the protesters.
00:12:07
Speaker
And so everything he talked a lot about. I know he wanted wanted to get out there because why would you tell somebody? so And he talked a lot about the protesters. But even the stuff he told me, I mean, like, I think one thing he was, like, among the worst was, you know, that they had looked up people's license plates and then found out who they are and where they work and then harassed them.
00:12:30
Speaker
Okay, that sucks. And that's not right. that that's not That's not a peaceful protest. I'm not sure... Civil. I'm not sure that that these lawsuits are all justified. I mean, I think a lot of them are are protesting the First Amendment rights. And so, yeah. And they're not even restraining order worthy. No, I don't think so. Like, like, no, they're theyre not touching anybody. Like they're the doxing thing. They're like looking up license plate like that.
00:13:00
Speaker
Don't do that. If anything, you're going to get yourself in trouble for doing your first amendment. So, yeah, you don't want to do anything that's going to, like, put you in more trouble.
00:13:12
Speaker
That's a win for him. That's a win, you know. And I think they have. Yeah, I think they have come back. But I do really think about the things he spoke to me a lot about. and he did not. He would not do the protester things. testster All right. So that is just kind of like the civil, like his protest lawsuit, those kind of things.
Abuse Allegations and Community Impact
00:13:33
Speaker
There were some huge releases recently or huge filings. Two women filed lawsuit against JP and his father for assaults, sexual assaults that happened, i think, both of which in the 90s or the early 2000s. So we're going to get into those court filings a bit.
00:13:53
Speaker
They're tough. I'm not going to say – don't think i am going to say a lot of, like, the details because some of it's bad, especially – mean, their' but it's just bad. Tuesday, February 25th, this was the first lawsuit against J.P. and Wayne for using their churches to target minors to sexually abuse.
00:14:13
Speaker
The lawsuit was filed by an anonymous woman against J.P. She's known as Jane Doe 1. Okay. She accused him of raping her in 1998 when she was 15 years old and assaulting her again in 2023 when she ran into him.
00:14:29
Speaker
ah Yeah, that that part that part. It really surprised me. It's like... That's in Gaul. Yeah, yeah. It's... Yeah. Gaul is the only word. So Jane Doe was in Myrtle Beach for the summer with her grandparents when she was 15 years old.
00:14:45
Speaker
She attended Cathedral Baptist Church with them. um Her grandparents, like, after service, they do classes, right? i don't know if they still do. it They did that. They would they would have like Sunday school classes and they're in different classrooms. And her grandparents went to different classes.
00:15:02
Speaker
So she followed initially followed her grandma to one class, but then changed her mind and she turned to follow her her grandfather. She didn't know what room he was actually in and didn't want to, like, open doors. Yeah. um So she just waited in the sanctuary.
00:15:16
Speaker
And JP was in there. He was 19 and he was on staff as the worship leader. The lawsuit claims he had a pattern of reckless behavior and sexual misconduct that his father, church staff and church members knew about.
00:15:31
Speaker
It doesn't surprise me at all. No, we're going to take a little side quest here. i don't know. It just shows what they knew and how bad things were and how JP is.
00:15:42
Speaker
So at the time of this lawsuit or at the time of this incident, rather, JP was in a custody dispute with his ex, Lena Hardy, who is Logan Hardy's mother.
00:15:53
Speaker
She was represented by someone named Patricia Ferguson, who had actually already represented the Millers in 1996 in estate dispute. and a real estate dispute And in 2006, when a lawsuit was filed against Wayne's church.
00:16:08
Speaker
And in 2017, when we talked about, gosh, a while ago, we talked about this older woman at Wayne's church who Wayne basically was like harassed into paying paying him a bunch of this money that she borrowed for her home while she was definitely in the throes of dementia.
00:16:29
Speaker
At that time, she gave power of attorney to this lawyer, Patricia Ferguson. So all that to say, I don't know what that all means, but everybody is connected in this community.
00:16:40
Speaker
And they're all connected on both sides of everything. Yeah. I mean, I was thinking the same thing. i was thinking, okay, is this just a small town? But i mean, it's Myrtle Beach.
00:16:51
Speaker
It's not that small where everyone's kind of using the same attorneys, but... but I don't know what to make of that. But, it you know, it feels like conflict of interest in multiple levels. And Regina Ward had to deal with this recently. It's like if you've represented somebody in the past, you probably shouldn't go against them.
00:17:13
Speaker
It's just it's there's too much gray there, right? i don't know. like But I also don't know how many attorneys are in. I mean, there are. There's only a handful. Right. and Maybe done maybe doesn't want to go there because they don't want to get involved. Right. all the right I don't know.
00:17:28
Speaker
But also five months before this alleged rape was when JP was arrested for assault of a high and aggravated nature. This is when he hit the woman with his car.
00:17:40
Speaker
So this had to do with the custody arrangement thing is the suspicion. So there was no custody agreement at the time. And a month after JP was arrested, Linna did file for custody of their son.
00:17:53
Speaker
So if we remember, we're going to kind of rewind a little bit. And we talked about Jennifer Garland was the woman he hit. There was flooding in Myrtle Beach.
00:18:04
Speaker
A main roadway was closed. And JP drove on this roadway despite it being closed at a high speed. He had done it a couple like he had done. This was the second time I think that day he did it, but in a different truck.
00:18:18
Speaker
And as he was speeding, he was like yelling at neighbors who were like outside just trying to save their home, like telling them to get out of the way. And you're like, the road's closed, my guy. Yeah. I mean, and again, i can see him being a, we'll call it spunky.
00:18:33
Speaker
Right. 19 year old. So it doesn't surprise me again. Yeah. So Jennifer yelled at him to slow down. And that's when he accelerated, hit her and drove with her on the hood of his truck for about 100 yards.
00:18:45
Speaker
And then he braked abruptly. So she kind of flew off. So how this is related is that this is the neighborhood he had to drive through in order to get to Linna's house to see his son.
00:18:56
Speaker
OK, so yeah, I was. one So this is after they were no longer to together. Right. Romantically, this is after the fact, but he was apparently going to see his son.
00:19:08
Speaker
Yes. Or going to fight with his son's mother. Yeah. he had to you had to he had to use this closed road to get to her house. So a little unhinged. But this is all the same time.
00:19:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So back to the alleged rape. This 15-year-old girl has to see JP is like this cool guy. At the time, 19 year olds leading worship, like church rock star.
00:19:36
Speaker
And I can see how that would be. Yeah. and farming And on the flip side of that, that there's an automatic power imbalance. She's 15 year old, like the age gap, if they were both adults, isn't it?
00:19:47
Speaker
Four years wouldn't be a big deal if they were 30 and 34, 15 and 19. That's big fifteen and nineteen that's a big deal And it would be why reporting was so difficult at the time, because what we're going to get back is why didn't she say anything then?
00:20:00
Speaker
And it's like, because it's tre just so for some people just as traumatic to report. But we'll get it on that. I mean, and at that age, you probably don't even probably don't even. Say anything to your grandparents who are with you. Right.
00:20:12
Speaker
me Right. So as they were in the sanctuary, JP engaged in conversation with Jane Doe. She went up to use the bathroom. And when she came out of the bathroom, he was waiting for her. And it was near Wayne's office.
00:20:24
Speaker
um He, out of nowhere, forced her into Wayne's office and shut the door and then pushed her against the wall. um She fought back with saying no. He then moved her out of the office through a side door, which must have been close by to where his truck truck was parked.
00:20:41
Speaker
He pushed her into the truck, and this is where the alleged rape took place. And she's a 15-year-old girl attending a Christian church, so it's not surprising that she had never had any sort of sexual interactions before.
00:20:54
Speaker
That's horrifying. So she, after this happened, she definitely had depression. She isolated herself. Her grades went down. It's like obvious signs of trauma. But I can see also how a parent or a grandparent, you know, if teenagers are, I'm right at the beginning of teenagers. And it's like, if they didn't tell me something traumatic happened, sometimes I would be like, are you just in puberty?
00:21:16
Speaker
What's happening? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Jane really didn't understand what happened to her due to the trauma. But the church and the leadership knew that JP had had questionable behavior with minor girls.
00:21:30
Speaker
The lawsuit refers to Wayne, and I kind of love this because it calls him right out, as the fox guarding the hen house. yeah who has many of his own sexual allegations, as we know.
00:21:41
Speaker
The lawsuit states that the churches are extensions of both men and alleged that leadership gave complete control to Wayne Miller, who unleashed J.P. Miller on the teenagers of the church.
00:21:53
Speaker
Again, we see the same pattern again. Yep. So Jane basically... repressed this memory until 2023. twenty twenty three In 2023, JP and Micah were separated at the time.
00:22:08
Speaker
And JP saw Jane Doe with a friend, just like ran into each other. I feel like it was like in Myrtle Beach at a touristy spot, like on the pier something. Like it was something like that.
00:22:19
Speaker
and and It was totally random. She was there for visit. When he leaned in to hug her, he shoved his hands down her pants instead. She tried to brush it off and like move out of the way and move his hands.
00:22:34
Speaker
30 minutes later, i think, I don't know if she like tracked him down. That's what I would do. I like process and then go back and be like, I'm furious. but So 30 minutes later, Jane got into a heated argument with JP about his use of the title pastor and how he uses scripture to justify his sexual misconduct.
00:22:54
Speaker
And JP responded, quote, no man is without sin and temptation. God understands that. So after this, she spiraled into a depression once again. And the details of the 1998 alleged rape reemerged for her.
00:23:08
Speaker
She felt ah after then after Micah died, she just was burdened with guilt and shame. And she was just like if she came forward, thought she could have saved Micah. Poor thing.
00:23:19
Speaker
I know. um Her attorney is named Randy Hood, and he specializes in institutional sexual abuse against minors. And he um I think he who you talk to? He talked to True Sunlight and he basically said it's way more difficult to take the criminal justice route than the civil justice route.
00:23:36
Speaker
And that's why they're looking for civil damages instead of trying to imprison him for this. It's just a lot easier. I think it's something like criminally, the defense doesn't have to prove anything.
00:23:50
Speaker
Civilly, the defense has to prove things, if that makes sense. I think the burden of it, there's a lower threshold of the burden of proof or civil cases.
Civil Suits and Custody Disputes
00:24:01
Speaker
Yeah. Criminal. Yeah. And the defense has to basically like prove that it didn't happen more. Also. Yeah. And I don't, I don't know. I don't know the law on this, but if he, if if JP has cut a deal um with the FBI or or whatever other agency,
00:24:23
Speaker
And he has immunity. I don't know if that would go back to immunity ah from past events. Because if you have immunity, you have to be completely honest about everything you've done.
00:24:37
Speaker
And that could also be a bunch of immunity from it. so Right, right. and But I also wonder if that could be a case for going doing civil also. Oh, 100%. It's criminal immunity, not yeah against civil stuff. So that could be why they went that route.
00:24:52
Speaker
Possibly. Yeah. i know the I know it's much more difficult to prove criminally allegations like this, but it could just be a we're more likely to see some justice if we go civil, ye given everything else.
00:25:06
Speaker
So between then and the second case we're going to talk about that was filed. um March 4th, JP dropped four more lawsuits, meaning of the 34 filed since January, only fewer than 10 remain open.
00:25:19
Speaker
One of the attorneys filed a motion for sanctions against JP. And I think this is related to kind of abusing the ah court system. And countersuits are starting to be filed by protesters for JP abusing the legal system.
00:25:31
Speaker
So this might have backfired for him. yeah However, it still keeps the conversation away from other things. Yep. In the meantime, the Justice Department or whatever. going very.
00:25:45
Speaker
Right. ah So the next day on March 5th, another lawsuit was filed against JP, Wayne, their churches and schools.
00:25:55
Speaker
And I put that very broadly because I can't keep track of the churches and schools anymore. So 1999, Jane Doe number two was 14 when she enrolled at Cathedral Hall Academy.
00:26:11
Speaker
which was Wayne and JP's private school. They touted faith-based education. In the lawsuit, Jane Doe, number two says, quote, Cathedral Hall was not a school. It was a trap.
00:26:23
Speaker
Again, that, that seems ah completely believable. And it seems like a pattern again, yeah that is go going on. And I, you know, not to make any assumptions about his most recent quote unquote school and, um,
00:26:40
Speaker
And I think, you know, I'm sure parents sent their child there for the right children there for the right reasons. Yeah, yeah. I kind of can see the same scenario where, yeah ah you know, the academics were not always up to par. Yeah.
00:26:56
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it says in the lawsuit there's no cert at the time. And I would assume that maybe it's similar, but there were no certified teachers and no structured academics or schoolwork.
00:27:07
Speaker
Classrooms were in a bowling alley, which I do remember talking about one of the this might have been the military base he tried to get. There was like a bowling alley. yep Part of that. And I think that's where the classroom was. Yep. Yeah. I actually that was one of the I had taken pictures of some information about the bowling alley.
00:27:23
Speaker
Okay. um The lawsuit says that the school was run with, quote, control, fear and unchecked abuse. So at the and time of the incident, Jane Doe, number two, was asked to hold the door of the church open for the kids after service.
00:27:39
Speaker
And she was obviously like at the end of the line after all the kids went out and she was left alone with J.P., He asked her if she wanted to play piano, which again, he is the cool worship leader, teacher.
00:27:52
Speaker
he was what, probably 20 at this time, maybe. So getting attention from someone like this when you're 14 would be very cool. He forced a hug. He then moved his hand under her clothing and touched her butt.
00:28:04
Speaker
Just a side note, and I don't remember if I said this on the last. It's almost embarrassing to even say, but that was something when I spoke to him that he specifically said His ex-wife was very religious and that was specifically that she would not let him touch her butt during relations, during intercourse.
00:28:29
Speaker
That's very weird. It was very specific and very weird and particularly weird now that we've heard. yeah One or first Jane Doe. I'm not sure if it was specified if he did that, but yeah.
00:28:46
Speaker
Don't know what means. Just strange. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's also his pattern that we've seen is, you know, if he knew this lawsuit was going to come out or if anything like that, here's something I can add to the conversation to make it look like the thing that's going to come out is wrong.
00:29:04
Speaker
You know what i mean? Like, i don't know. That's right. So back to this. ah Jane told a teacher what happened and the teacher sent her to Wayne's office where JP also was.
00:29:17
Speaker
Wayne demanded she repeat the accusation in front of the perpetrator, and she told the truth. um He kind of went off and said she was lying about his son and forced her to write, quote, I will not lie about John Paul Miller 5,000 times. Which ridiculous.
00:29:35
Speaker
It's just like that. Yeah. So Jane's torment after this just escalated at the school. All of the students turned on her. She called going to school, quote, daily humiliation.
00:29:48
Speaker
She got called all kinds of names. She was called a whore and a slut, all terrible things. And she was actually assaulted by two girls who held her by the arms and ripped off her shirt. And JP was close enough to laugh and not stop it.
00:30:04
Speaker
That's evil. She was also, on separate occasions, shoved, slapped, had her hair pulled, and at one time had bug spray sprayed into her mouth and eyes by students.
00:30:15
Speaker
All of which she says in the ah and the filing that JP and Wayne laughed about and would tell her to repent for her lies to get the torment to stop. They've specifically said that their school, one reason behind their school or one goal they have is to um cater to kids who have been bullied in the past.
00:30:37
Speaker
Oh, yeah. He said that on the call. Which, I mean, but generally speaking, those children aren't. more susceptible to being what's word like when hurt hurt people hurt people yeah yeah and they they possibly jp and wayne weaponized that or they're less also just be in a position to speak up yeah for sure depending on what their backstory is so but again that's a weird thing to point out i thought that when he said it like okay that's a weird thing to highlight and then this came out a few weeks later
00:31:15
Speaker
And again, said it to me multiple times, which I believe anything he said to me multiple times, anything he said to me at all, I feel is information he wanted disseminated.
00:31:25
Speaker
and don't think any was accidental. Yeah. What the purpose but behind that could be. I don't know. I don't know the intent. but So in ninth grade, the abuse escalated as if it could get worse.
00:31:37
Speaker
JP cornered Jane and told her she had failed a test and said that she could make it up if she stayed after class. JP was a teacher also. Like he was a full-fledged. Yeah. I mean, obviously not accredited. They didn't have credit to accredited teachers, but he was working as a teacher in the school.
00:31:53
Speaker
At 20. 21, maybe. Right. With no college education. Right. Yeah. Great. When she stayed after, he asked he asked her if she liked him and if she had a boyfriend.
00:32:06
Speaker
He grabbed her and physically assaulted her under her clothes. um She broke free and ran home, but didn't tell her mother. but She was ashamed. ye um There's also psychological abuse that happened.
00:32:18
Speaker
um And the example in the lawsuit is one day she brought a Harry Potter book to school. JP and Wayne berated her for bringing this book, told her she'd been raped by demons.
00:32:30
Speaker
They took the book and set it on fire in front of her. And JP allegedly hit her in the head with a Bible and poured water on her head. I think that was, wi well, did JP or Wayne hit her?
00:32:44
Speaker
Did I say JP? Yeah, I think it was Wayne. yeah I'm sorry. Wayne did this. Sorry. Sometimes this stuff's just weird, like, and poured water on her head. I know. It's just power, right? It's like, yeah yeah while she's at her, like, probably one of the lowest moments, like, he's also just going to pour water on her.
00:33:02
Speaker
ye She also repressed a lot of these memories. And ah yeah you know it's a direct result of the trauma. In 2024, memories started coming back after media coverage of Micah's death.
00:33:15
Speaker
So that was what brought her to file. Then we kind of come to question what certain people knew and how they were perhaps trying to protect themselves or things like that.
00:33:26
Speaker
So we've talked about this before also. In 2015, JP had a custody agreement with his ex-wife, Allison. And in that affidavit, it said three of the sons were allowed to stay overnight with him, but there would be no visits at all without or with his daughter.
00:33:43
Speaker
Was Allison protecting her? Yeah. um Let's put this on the timeline. how He was married to Allison for 15 years? I think-ish. Yeah. So he got married to not too long after these events happened. Yeah.
00:33:59
Speaker
Yeah. So in the affidavit, it also said Michael was aware of these allegations against JP, however, was a victim of coercive control. And we know that he was interested in her when she was 14. So that is a long time to be under someone's spell like that.
00:34:15
Speaker
and And you're getting his version of what happened. Exactly. Watertown. There was a text to exchange in an affidavit between him, Allison and Micah from 2022,
00:34:27
Speaker
He never denied what Allison accused him of. um It was when she said that she knew he would he sexually assaulted or I don't know if she said sexually assaulted, but like engaged in and improper things with minors.
00:34:42
Speaker
Quote, this has nothing to do with my own child, which... Again, ah saying he never did anything. Right. Yeah. He never did anything to one of his own children. He didn't deny not doing it. He just didn't do his own.
00:34:54
Speaker
So from then, the kids weren't allowed to be with Wayne at all. And in 2024, if you remember, she asked the court um for that to remain and extend to a permanent.
00:35:05
Speaker
So Wayne would never be allowed to be with her minor children, which makes me think she knows his role in it as well. And there's been rumors about Wayne.
00:35:16
Speaker
Yeah. Even with his own children, have there not been yeah these rumors? Yeah. um But this goes all the way back to 1998, the custody agreement with Logan's mother.
00:35:31
Speaker
In that agreement, she was asked to consider, not told she had to, asked to consider enrolling Logan at Wayne's school. And the tradeoff would be that Wayne and JP wouldn't be allowed to pick him up from preschool without his mother's approval. It was like a weird stipulation that was like, just consider sending him here.
00:35:54
Speaker
by We'll check with you before we pick it it seems like she didn't want him with them. And this was they were like, if he goes to school, they'll get visitation with him. Basically, they'll get time with him away from her is how I understood it Is she saying that they could go to the school, but is she that is, I guess, her thought that there would be other people around?
00:36:18
Speaker
so this was I think this was something that JP wanted. He wanted her to consider enrolling Logan into their school. OK, so we don't know that she ever agreed. to Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:30
Speaker
So this, again, comes back to Wayne. And the question of if his attempts at opening and expanding the properties in Myrtle Beach are even more nefarious than we initially thought.
00:36:42
Speaker
We know he's guilty of labor trafficking. We know that there's been all these allegations. In 1994, Wayne wanted to set up a dormitory for transitional shelter for job training and employment services for his school.
00:36:55
Speaker
I mean... I hate to say it, but I wouldn't. I mean, nefarious comes. Yep. So, yeah, that sounds very suspicious to me, given their history.
00:37:07
Speaker
Right. August 1995, he attempted to set something up called Kids Crusade, something about education, Christian education again. um He wanted more land and more building for dormitories.
00:37:20
Speaker
Now, if I'm in a play devil's advocate here. ah this could be his justification for getting the land, being able to buy the land from the state or whatever it is. cause it was low price land. Yeah. yeah um Um, so if you could show that you were, right but you had to be able to show you were using it for causes that help the community, ah you know, or something. double yeah that one And doesn't mean he had to follow through with the causes, of course.
00:37:49
Speaker
Um, The goal was to then go further and build, quote, extension extension schools in Florence and Charleston. I don't think this happened or there was difficulty in the land acquisition um because Wayne wasn't being transparent about the finances.
00:38:07
Speaker
butcker um And again, none of these schools are accredited. I think we should. This brings me to the ah thought about um the money being raised for at Solid Rock. just before all of this kind of hit and the building that they were, the land they bought and the building they were yeah planning.
00:38:28
Speaker
And if I recall, and and I may be wrong on this, but they were talking, it was more to be a school or building that was to be used for youth of some sort.
00:38:41
Speaker
and So i which is it's always kind of hit me the wrong way. yeah I've always just thought that there was maybe, but there's something didn't feel quite right about that me. Yep.
00:38:52
Speaker
Agreed. um And I wish they would look at the history of these attempts for these two men and be like, I don't, I don't, it's not illegal to raise money, but there should be red flags that people should be looking at. Yeah. And, and, but when we say they you know, you have all different types of authorities and but oversight.
00:39:15
Speaker
And if they're not communicating, with each other. yeah um if information's kept from one group you know one person to another, one group, you know he that's where these things usually fall through the cracks.
00:39:27
Speaker
Yeah. Well, and church nonprofits that are churches don't get a lot of oversight. There's a lot of trust in the government approving churches to be nonprofit organizations. yeah So that was like 10 days.
00:39:44
Speaker
All of that.
00:39:47
Speaker
But yeah yesterday. so again, it's March 16th today. Yesterday.
Mysterious Death and Case Implications
00:39:51
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Yesterday. March 15th, 2025, I almost said 2024, at 7.30 p.m., it was reported that Johnny Jacobs, the fisherman who found Micah's belongings and claimed to have heard gunshots and a woman crying on the day of her death, was T-boned in his car by ah another car that didn't stop at a stop sign and was pronounced dead at the scene.
00:40:20
Speaker
The fisherman is dead. And it's interesting because we hadn't heard much about the Fishman recently. and And then Robbie Harvey did bring him up and had been discussing some new disclosures of recordings about him.
00:40:37
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe completely unrelated to this. I will say this is the first time I remember hearing his name. For a while, Robbie Harvey was really like, I don't want to say this guy's name. I don't know if like, I don't know what to make of him. I don't want to like dox him basically. Like, and now he used his name.
00:40:56
Speaker
and Okay. But he ben had had he not been like when he was like last week or when he was last week, he did when he brought him up again. um i guess. Yeah. So i didn't I need to go back and watch it again. But Robbie Harvey said something about there being allegations or even evidence that around the time of Micah's death, Johnny Jacobs was discovered burning a bag of cash.
00:41:23
Speaker
Okay, let's talk about this. I don't get this. like i First of all, i don't I guess if somebody found him doing it, that's why he brought it up. i'm like I don't even know why you'd bring this up.
00:41:35
Speaker
What do you make of it?
00:41:38
Speaker
Yeah, I have no idea. And I don't think Robbie really knew entirely or he did know and and wasn't able to say more, which I think Robbie knows a lot. um But like it could be a couple of things. It could be that Micah did have more money in her and on her or in her car or.
00:41:54
Speaker
And maybe he before he this all happened, he took more of that money. And then. Yeah. Yeah. Which almost would explain how, like, when he found her belongings, he went to a convenience store before doing anything with her belongings or gas station or something.
00:42:13
Speaker
I mean, maybe that was him putting money in his car. And then he went and reported the belongings and the gunshots after that. Or, i mean, we talked a little bit about this before.
00:42:26
Speaker
State park's weird, right? I mean, I will stand 100% by there's illicit stuff going in that part. Yeah. I mean, i can't I don't have proof of it.
00:42:36
Speaker
All I know is when I was there, it seemed obvious to me. Yeah. And I kind of question, not everyone, but a ah lot of people who might be there. So he might have been doing his own bad stuff.
00:42:50
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe not even related to Micah. So... And then what again, when this all became an issue, ah got blown up, you know, he panicked and didn't want um his indiscretions brought.
00:43:03
Speaker
Yeah. so So is ah going to prison more valuable than the bag of money that you have? or Or worse, being, you know, taken out.
00:43:14
Speaker
So the accident happened about 25 minutes away from the park, which, I mean, makes sense. he's He lives in the town. So I don't think there's anything weird about that. But it's just interesting that we haven't heard about him for a while.
00:43:29
Speaker
And then he came back up. Robbie Harvey brought him up for some questionable things. And now he's dead. I'm hoping that doesn't sound like I'm saying Robbie Harvey was like, no, it just, straight he came back into the case.
00:43:46
Speaker
It doesn't matter who reported on it. He came back into the case suddenly with his name. Now, I think some outlets have been using his name before, but you you know, some haven't, he's just been the fisherman.
00:43:57
Speaker
Now his name is out there. He, think he like sent some angry text messages or voice, ah voice notes to Robbie Harvey. He was like really mad about it, which I don't blame. Like recently or yeah. yeah Like in the last few days before, like after Robbie Harvey's video where he mentioned the cash.
00:44:17
Speaker
So it's just very strange. Yeah. It is very strange timing. Yeah. It is. And I don't know what to make of it. And now, at the very least, at the very least, he can't testify to anything, to anyone.
00:44:33
Speaker
He can't, if JP got accused, or not accused, if he was arrested and charged with murder, like i don't think it's going to happen. But if that happened, now the fisherman can't testify to what he saw and heard that day.
00:44:45
Speaker
And he could have been the last person to at least hear her alive. And, you know, another thing... I want to point out because I do think bigger things were happening. I think bigger criminal organizations were, things were happening and and different people were reporting to them or um working under them.
00:45:04
Speaker
And, it you know, it could be generally in those situations, they try to keep each person's activities, you know, kind of in a silo. So keep people so that they have, this is this is your job, whatever it is, picking up drugs or you know money laundering in some way and so even if he was not necessarily connected to Micah specifically i mean he could have been reporting in or doing things for the same for the same criminal network or and so and then just again started knowing too much or being involved too much or having too much publicity on him yeah
00:45:51
Speaker
Or this could be completely coincidence. Right. He could have just gotten into a bad car accident. Yeah. I wonder about, i do think that um the driver of the other car was critically injured because they were taken away, being reported.
00:46:08
Speaker
Yeah, they were in the hospital. The last the last I saw was in the hospital, um but I didn't see any the just wonder what kind of questioning or background the driver the driver has Yeah.
00:46:19
Speaker
Yeah. That's been the last like 10 days.
00:46:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, ah I will again, and I keep repeating this, but and not only was the park creepy, but when I was there, I walked to the observation deck that they talk about.
00:46:38
Speaker
And one thing I did hear that Johnny Jacobs had said was, you know, after discovering her items and hearing the gunshots, he said that he had, um he somehow knew that the people on the observation deck um had called 911. And that was part of the reason he had not. okay I've told you this. I was in the park.
00:47:01
Speaker
I truly got scared. I did not feel comfortable there. So I left. But from what I could see, i believe this all happened in a pretty small area.
00:47:12
Speaker
And in fact, I have a little bit of a video of another, like while I was there. And again, this was winter. There was not many people there. There was a boat with a, I swear, guy kind of pretending to fish, kind of not even. He was just kind of, it was it was suspicious. It looked odd.
00:47:34
Speaker
In fact, I took a little video of it. I was kind of, I couldn't, I couldn't take too much of a video of him. And I tried to take some pictures. But again, yeah it's not a big area when you talk about Johnny Jacobs being there fishing.
00:47:47
Speaker
A kayaker has been mentioned. And then another boat with three people on it yeah has been mentioned. And then I've never really heard anything more about that boat.
00:48:00
Speaker
Nope. so Nope. We talked about it way, way, way back, but I don' i also don't remember any... anything that came up. So if I understood the park, right, it's all within a fairly small area.
00:48:12
Speaker
ah There's one other thing gets maybe be completely unrelated, but there has been discussion about the currents and how Micah's body, you know, how it could have floated versus in the currents to where the body was found.
00:48:29
Speaker
Just something interesting that there is where this all happened. It's called, there's a name for it. It's called the something. i know i'm looking at of Oh, I'm thinking of something different.
00:48:41
Speaker
ah there Yeah. um I wish I wrote it down. And it's where the currents are funky because something with how the river comes together. And actually, it like um when I was trying to take a video of the person on the boat,
00:48:58
Speaker
ah like I have it kind of caught the like the water currents and you could actually see it's like kind of swirling right there maybe nothing but I did find that really interesting that it's a specific point um that is kind of known yeah at the park and that's about where it was off from there where I believe Micah's body was was found.
00:49:22
Speaker
But it wasn't that far. Okay. Well, the other thing ah about the river is, and I just, like, in researching it, found this. Like, even just the Wikipedia page about this river calls it a Blackwater River, which by definition is a very slow-moving current.
00:49:39
Speaker
It's like a super slow... it's i' know It seemed like if it wasn't terrifying, I'd be like, let's go on a lazy river ride. That's the definition of it. Yeah. And it's yeah it's known for being within deep, deep woods and being very overgrown.
00:49:56
Speaker
And it's one of only like a handful one or two yeah black rivers in the area. i wish I could go back and and see it again more clearly. i But I do think there's something to me that seems to be going on with the bridges and maybe things being dropped there and then other people picking them up ah again just my theory not saying this has anything to do with micah or johnny but it does have to ah it does have to do with the park i i believe yeah think uh our theory is the park is a bad place that yeah i feel pretty confident in and believing that and
00:50:42
Speaker
All right. Yeah, that's it for updates. I'm still deciding our next series, but if everything works, if technology agrees with us, we're actually going to interview people.
00:50:56
Speaker
That's so exciting. there's ah Yes, we're very, very excited. I just have to make sure i understand technology.
00:51:05
Speaker
Which always seems to be a bit of an issue, but we're getting better at it. Hit or miss. Hit or miss. But the people we are hoping to interview tomorrow know technology better than I do. So they'll be walking us through if we're... Exactly.
00:51:20
Speaker
Poor flailing. Exactly. So that's very exciting. And then we'll be doing a new series. I think it'll be another shorty, either ah one-off I'm considering or a bit of a longer one, but yeah, we'll see what I, what I decide who knows. so And I'll follow along.
00:51:36
Speaker
Beautiful. All right. Well, thank you guys for listening and we will see you next time. Alrighty. Bye-bye. Bye. hi
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