7) How Horry County Police And Robeson County Medical Examiner’s Office Failed Mica Francis Miller
COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis MillerShow Notes
Mica Francis Miller did everything we tell victims to do. She documented. She called 911. She filed report after report… Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell walk through the record Mica built while she was alive, and the one the state built after she died.
In this episode of the COERCED Drop Feed™ built from True Sunlight Podcast reporting, you'll hear Mica’s own voice: calm and clear from a hospital bed in February 2024, telling police her estranged pastor husband has seized her phone, laptop, and car; then a month later, reporting a razor blade planted in her tire, already reciting the excuses she knew police would use to do nothing.
Then… a dispatcher's parting words rang hollow: "Good luck" and six weeks later, Mica was dead. The four-page medical examiner's report, printed on yellow paper, closed her case without an autopsy, with a time of death that contradicts law enforcement's own timeline, two spent casings, and a body found 100 feet away.
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Episode Links:
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U.S. Attorney's Office press release on JP Miller's federal indictment 👮
Robeson County Sheriff’s Office timeline 🕜
Fox News – the redacted 911 call and JP's Charleston alibi 📰
“Bicycle face”: a 19th-century health problem made up to scare women away from biking 📰
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