Pastor John-Paul Miller marries Suzie Skinner in small ceremony
Scandal-hit South Carolina pastor John-Paul Miller has re-married just over a year after his wife, Mica Miller, killed herself — to the widow of a parishioner who also died by suicide in suspicious circumstances tied to the pastor, according to reports.
Miller was filmed tying the knot with Suzie Skinner in a beach ceremony in Myrtle Beach on Sunday evening, according to reports and video shared on TikTok by user findingneejo.
None of the couple's children were in attendance at the small ceremony, held for just a couple of dozen guests, freelance journalist Robbie Harvey said on X.
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8 John-Paul and Mica Miller were estranged at the time of her death.
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But several armed bodyguards were hired for the ceremony — which was just a few blocks from where Miller and his late wife were married in 2017, Robbie Harvey claimed.
Sunday's wedding coincides with the feds stepping up investigations into Miller, sources familiar with the case told FitsNews.
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8 Angelita Salas believes her daughter Mica Miller was lured to her death and murdered.
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Mica Miller's death is tied to an ongoing FBI investigation into John-Paul Miller, while the 2021 drowning death of his new bride's late husband, veteran Chris Skinner, remains under investigation by the coroner's office, FitsNews reported.
The FBI searched John-Paul's home in November, although the reason is unclear.
8 Surveillance footage captured Mica Miller purchasing a gun on the day she died.
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Mica Miller, an aspiring missionary and worship leader, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head at the Lumber River State Park near Orrum, North Carolina, in April last year.
Miller announced his wife's passing to his congregation less than 12 hours after being notified of her death — just 48 hours after she had served her husband divorce papers.
8 John-Paul Miller is separately facing two sexual assault lawsuits.
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8 Mica Miller was discovered dead in a national park last year.
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Meanwhile, Chris Skinner, a quadriplegic veteran, died in a swimming pool on Labor Day in 2021 — which his first wife, Alison Williams, said came just days after he 'confronted' Miller about an affair he was allegedly having with Suzie Skinner.
'Just two weeks prior to this incident, Suzie's husband had confronted JP and asked him to leave his wife and children alone,' Wilson wrote in an affidavit last year
8 Skinner's family alleges he took his own life after learning of his wife's affair.
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'It is chilling to know that the spouses of both Suzie and JP are now dead, from tragic events.'
The coroner's office briefly reopened its investigation into Chris Skinner's death in March, although they have yet to comment on the reasons why
8 Army veteran Chris Skinner was found dead in a swimming pool in 2021.
8 John-Paul and Mica Miller were estranged when she died in April 2024.
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Miller has denied any involvement in the death of his wife, and has previously accused her family of keeping her off her medication.
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He is also facing two sexual assault lawsuits filed against him by anonymous accusers alleging that he abused them.
Miller has denied the charges in both suits and has launched a counter-suit for defamation in one of the cases.
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