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(NewsNation) — Mica Miller’s father, Michael Francis, said that when he first met John-Paul Miller, he “did not want her to marry him.”
“I totally opposed it,” Francis said during an appearance on “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “There were things going on baffling me. Him having matching tattoos to her, and then he even had a tattoo put on her of his signature. He owned her. … That’s what he felt like.”
The family of Mica Miller is calling for more investigations into her death, which came as she was pursuing a divorce from her husband, John-Paul Miller, a South Carolina pastor.
Mica Miller was found dead of a gunshot wound in April, and police ruled her death a suicide. Details have surfaced about her marriage, divorce and multiple calls to the police about her estranged husband’s actions.
Francis believes his daughter was “let down from the system from day one.”
“They wrote her off the way they wrote Alison off. I couldn’t be more thankful for Alison stepping forward. … They’re both truthful people, and we expect further action to be taken,” Francis added.
Alison Williams, Miller’s ex-wife, recently asked a judge to temporarily grant her sole custody of their two youngest children, with all contact suspended until John-Paul Miller completes a psychological and parental fitness exam.
“Initially, I was okay with phone calls and text messages however, when recently texting with them J.P. has inappropriately discussed the current state of events with them … sharing his plans of ‘suing everyone, and being a millionaire,’” Williams wrote in a May 28 custody filing in the 15th Circuit Family Court, based in Horry County.
Court filings, obtained by NewsNation affiliate WBTW, depict John-Paul Miller’s infidelities, including an affair with Mica that began while she worked as a nanny for John-Paul and Alison’s children. The filing also alleges that John-Paul Miller hired prostitutes and was “sexually inappropriate with several underage female members” of Solid Rock Ministries.
