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The Mica Miller Case: A Good Example Of Not Jumping To Crime Conclusions

Everyone thought this lady’s estranged pastor husband killed her. Nope.

Ted Bauer
2 min readMay 7, 2024

If you follow true crime stuff, the Mica Miller case was the story of the past five days. She was a pastor’s ex-wife (estranged wife) out of South Carolina. Apparently, he was 30 with five kids (impressive) when he met her, and she was either 14 or 15 then. They got together and she became the stepmom to those kids. He did a weird announcement of her death at church, and it was cringe and laugh-filled, and instantly the Internet rose up and said he must be guilty. And then other stuff came out about him cheating on people, him having some sexual deviancy, etc, etc. The Internet piled on.

Well, at the same time a few people here and there were saying “Maybe this was a suicide,” as Mica had some documented mental health struggles. Lo and behold, now we know it was a suicide. That’s detailed in this video:

If you just want the 911 audio, where she tells the operator “I am going to kill myself and

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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