Transcript of 14) Surveillance Footage Shows Major Discrepancy in Story of Chris Skinner’s Death New

Hey, y'all.

It's Mandy Matney. If you're listening to Coerced, you already know that Micah Francis Miller's story runs so much deeper than what the world saw on Netflix. This week on True Sunlight, Liz Farrell and I are breaking down what Death of the Pastor's Wife left out. And trust me, it is a lot. Like JP's felon father, Reginald Wayne Miller, and how JP inherited the playbook from him. The manipulation, the lawsuit, the just-keep-preaching arrogance— straight from his daddy. Plus, we talk about the 2 Jane Doe lawsuits that Netflix barely touched, and we tell you a whole lot about JP's ex-wife that Netflix left out. Remember, Justice for Micah is a movement, not a moment, and the full story matters. So follow True Sunlight wherever you're listening right now. And check out episode 163, What Netflix Left Out of the Micah Frances Miller Story. Stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight. You know me, I dig until I find the truth. And it turns out that same instinct that drives my investigative journalism, it makes for a different but pretty amazing new kind of travel show. Wherever It Leads is Luna Shark's brand new podcast. And it's nothing like the travel content that you've heard before.

We go deeper. We talk to locals, reporters, and people who actually live where you wanna visit, not just the ones who want your tourist dollars. We cover the food and landmarks, sure, but we also ask the harder questions. What is the real history here? The often sad and traumatic history. What new challenge is this place facing? And how can you show up as a visitor who actually makes things better? My co-host David Moses and I, along with a team of journalists, are hitting destinations around the world to expose the truth, give voice to victims throughout history, and get the story straight. With new destinations and episodes every other week. Wherever It Leads from Luna Shark. Find it wherever you listen to your podcasts or visit whereveritleadspod.com. This is Coerced: The Devotion and Death of Micah Frances Miller, a Luna Shark drop feed. My name is Mandy Matney. Journalists Liz Farrell, Beth Braden, and I have been reporting on Micah's story for more than 2 years now for the True Sunlight podcast. Coerced is a Luna Shark production made possible by producers Kate Thomas, Grace Hills, and David Moses. Before we start, we need to be clear about something, and we'll say it more than once in this episode.

No one has been charged in connection with the death you are about to hear about, and there is no evidence tying JP Miller or anyone else to this death. What you're going to hear is what the documents, the 911 call, and the surveillance footage actually show, and the questions a 2-day investigation left behind. On September 6th, 2021, Chris Skinner, an author, a motivational speaker, an Army veteran who had used his wheelchair for more than 2 decades, was found in his neighborhood pool in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, about a mile and a half from Solid Rock Church. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. His body was cremated. Police closed the case 2 days later. Chris's widow, Susie is now JP Miller's wife. And it was JP's ex-wife, Allison, in the same sworn affidavit that you've heard throughout this case, who first put Chris's death on the record as something that deserved a harder look. Because as she tells it, 2 weeks before Chris died, Chris had told JP to stay away from his family. 2 people, 2 dead spouses, 2 official rulings that leaned heavily on brief investigations. In this episode, Beth Braden's FOIA work brings you the 911 call, the 2-page police report— yes, 2 pages— and a minute-by-minute breakdown of surveillance and dashcam footage that Luna Shark was the first outlet to obtain.

As JP Miller might head to federal trial this October on charges connected to Micah's final months, The question we're asking when this reporting first aired in November 2024 has only gotten louder. Should the FBI be looking at Kris Jenner's death too? Let's dive in. Most of the people covering the Myka Francis story are influencers, not journalists, and this makes it difficult to sort fact from fiction in a case where everything seems too crazy to be real. But the story of Chris Skinner is real and complicated, and we want to do our part to sort fact from fiction, especially after we recently received security footage appearing to show Chris's death. So, who is Chris Skinner, and is his death related to Micah's?

Chris Skinner was a motivational speaker and author who attended Solid Rock Church with his wife, Susie, up until his mysterious death on September 6th, 2021. He was an Army veteran who was left paralyzed from an accident over 2 decades ago, and Susie is a physical therapist. According to reports, they met shortly after Chris's debilitating accident in 2000. Again, Chris's wife, Susie, allegedly has been in a relationship with JP Miller since before Chris's death, though she has reportedly denied that. Now, in the wake of Micah's mysterious death in April, rumors simultaneously flew about Chris Skinner's death. It reminded us of March 2019, when we were first investigating the death of Mallory Beach, and we kept seeing posts and messages about Stephen Smith's death and Gloria Satterfield's death as well. Per usual, we were highly skeptical of the rumors in this case until we saw JP Miller's ex-wife's affidavit, which, by the way, was full of shocking allegations against JP, including an accusation that he was sexually inappropriate with underage girls at the church. We think about Allison's affidavit all the time here because JP has spent a great deal of time refuting allegations against him. To the point of even filing a lawsuit against a paralegal and sending a cease and desist letter to Micah's best friend.

So it's notable to us that JP has said nothing about the bombshell affidavit from his ex-wife. Why is that? He's had something to say about everything else, it seems. Among the allegations, Allison Williams, JP's ex-wife, who shares 4 children with him, mentioned the strange death of Chris Skinner. Here's David.

When I learned JP was exposing our children to yet another one of his adulterous affairs, I confronted JP and Susie and told them not to let it happen again. JP called me the day Susie's husband died in an alleged drowning incident, extremely upset and asking me to pray, which was incredibly bizarre. Based on information and belief just 2 weeks prior to this incident, Susie's husband had confronted JP and asked him to leave his wife and children alone. It is chilling to know that the spouses of both Susie and JP are now dead from tragic events.

Okay, I'm going to repeat that. It is chilling to know that the spouses of both Susie and JP are now dead from tragic events. What are the odds of that? What are the odds that 2 people who were allegedly having an affair would both lose their spouses in deaths that were sudden, mysterious, and plagued by bad police work? Police work that seems largely reliant on the accounts of the surviving spouse in both cases. Both deaths have another thing in common: Their official causes of death don't tell the full story. In Micah's case, her death was ruled a suicide. In Chris's case, it was ruled an accident. And despite those official rulings, there are still so many things that just don't add up. We talked about Chris Skinner's death in a minisode in June, but since then we have received more information that we need to share with y'all. As we consider the question, should the FBI be investigating Chris Skinner's death too?

Okay, let's talk about who Chris Skinner was, separate and apart from who he was in the very strange world of JP Miller. Like many people in Myrtle Beach, Chris wasn't from there. He was born in Manassas, Virginia, and grew up in Nags Head, North Carolina. According to a report in the Tidewater News, Chris was a, quote, popular athletic college student trying to find direction for his life when around 1:00 a.m. on June 11th, 2000, after a night of drinking with his fraternity brothers, Chris was in a near-fatal car crash. Before the crash, Chris had been partying too much, according to a 2004 feature in the Martinsville Bulletin in Virginia, so much so that his GPA at Radford University dropped dramatically. and he got kicked out of the school after his third semester. Because of that, his parents cut him off financially, so he joined the Army National Guard for help. It's there where he says he sorted out his priorities and started attending community college. He had just been reaccepted at Radford and was about to start his summer semester when the crash happened, according to the report. Chris, who was still struggling with his alcohol use and also with drug use, according to a 2006 report in the Roanoke Times, had been at a friend's wedding the night of the crash and planned only to stay for the ceremony and not attend the reception.

But Chris's friends persuaded him to go with the agreement that no alcohol would be consumed. And this is according to the Martinsville report. Needless to say, that agreement didn't hold. Chris started drinking, and he and his friends decided to continue the party afterward at a location that was only 2 miles away. According to a report in the Bristol Herald Courier years later, Chris and his friends had opened some beers and were listening to Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews at the time. According to the Martinsville Bulletin report, Chris, who was a passenger in the car and had taken off his seatbelt to put tobacco in his mouth and stick his head out the window, only made it 750 yards. His friend who was driving was drunk and swerved to avoid hitting a deer. According to news reports, the, quote, car hit gravel and flipped 2.5 times in a single car crash. He was thrown 10 feet from the car and hit a ditch at 50 miles per hour. Chris was in a coma for 2 weeks, according to the reports, and when he finally woke up, he learned that he was a quadriplegic. He spent the next 4 months in the hospital, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The driver wasn't seriously injured. At one of his speeches in 2010, Chris told the audience, I deserve to be where I am. For making the decisions I made. Chris remembered bits and pieces from the crash, including seeing his legs, which appeared sideways to him, and not being able to breathe easily. He had broken his neck and right shoulder, severed his spinal cord, and lost hearing in his right ear. Because of the crash, Chris only had about 60% of his lung capacity, which caused his voice to have a perpetual rasp. It's important that we clarify his injuries here, though, especially given how Chris died. Chris had no ability to use his legs, but he still had use of his biceps and some mobility in his fingers. According to a 2006 news report, Chris used a computer with speech recognition software, used buttons on his wheelchair to open doors in his house, and drove a modified van with a license plate W-E-E-L-Z-7.

Wheels 7.

As for daily tasks, Chris required help getting dressed, washing up and eating. He told the Richmond newspaper in 2005 that people doubted him and doubted that he could overcome his injury to even return to college, let alone earn a series of degrees. He told them, quote, I was so determined to prove everyone wrong. I went back aggressively. The more time you have to sit and think about your situation, the worse it was for me. Now, Chris wasn't the first member of his family to be in a drinking-related crash. When he was younger, his aunt was actually killed in a crash caused by a drunk driver. Here's David with a particularly interesting passage from a feature that was written about that.

I knew the story all my life. I watched my cousin weep. I knew what alcohol did to my family, Skinner said, but I thought it would never happen to me. Making the right decisions, he said, can make all the difference in the world. How a person's life pans out when it comes down to the littlest decisions, which Skinner jokingly compared to changing socks or brushing teeth. I believe life is like Russian roulette, Skinner said. You always have one bullet in the chamber, but there's nothing we can do about it because we can't control other people.

It kind of gives you the chills, right? After this life-changing crash, Chris returned to Radford University and remained on the Dean's List. While he earned his bachelor's degree, he began his career as a motivational speaker, traveling and sharing his story about the dangers of drinking and driving with students at colleges, high schools, and elementary schools, as well as at churches. In other words, he didn't let his injury stop him from living. According to news reports from back then, Chris had a busy schedule presenting his talk, which he called The Ultimate Learning Experience. That is also the title of his book, which was published in 2004. One Tennessee newspaper described Chris's talk as a drama based on Chris's personal experience. In the 6 years after the crash, he made more than 70 appearances on stage, and he had spoken to around a million people. Chris told a Richmond newspaper in 2005 that at first he struggled with his new reality. Before the crash, he was over 6 feet tall and strapping. Afterward, he was in a wheelchair with atrophied muscles, weighing nearly £70 less than he had before. He was also learning the harsh truth about how society regards people with disabilities.

But according to a 2012 story in the Daily Reporter, Chris was still able to find humor in his situation, referring to himself as half man, half car. After getting his degree in communications at Radford, Chris went on to earn his master's degree there in counseling and human development. he earned a second master's degree in Christian education from Dallas Theological Seminary. In addition to his motivational speaking, he also began serving as a consultant for businesses and community groups on accessibility for disabled people, and he began participating in state conferences on assistive technology. He also started the Chris Skinner Organization, a nonprofit dedicated to motivating kids to make responsible decisions and avoid alcohol and drugs. In 2007, Chris was awarded the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's Emerging Leader Award at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 2013, he received the Courageous Man Award by the North Carolina Boys Academy in Conover, North Carolina. In January 2004, while he was still pursuing his master's degree, he got married to then-Suzie Jeffress. who was a licensed physical therapist. More specifically, she was Chris's physical therapist. More on that in a second. According to a 2006 report from the Roanoke Times, Chris said that Susie was his reason for reconnecting with his faith.

Here is David reading an excerpt from that story.

Susie Skinner said she fell in love with Chris Skinner's honesty and sense of humor. He likes to have fun with life, she said. Plus, I was attracted to him. Skinner has lost £70 since the crash. Muscle atrophy is largely to blame, but he also had significant digestive problems this year. Though Skinner can seem relentlessly positive, there are those times when his health is bad or the challenge he faces seems too much, and he has to use all his motivational ability on himself, quote, sometimes, to be honest, I don't want to get out of bed. He said, that's when my faith in the Lord hits me and I feel motivated and grit my teeth. I think of it as selflessness. If I can't do it for myself, I do it for whoever needs to come in contact with me today, whoever needs to hear my story.

It's hard to hear these things without thinking about Kris's future and what that looks like when it came to Susie and where their faith ultimately led them. And we'll be right back. You know me, I dig until I find the truth. And it turns out that same instinct that drives my investigative journalism, it makes for a different but pretty amazing new kind of travel show. Wherever It Leads is Luna Shark's brand new podcast, and it's nothing like the travel content that you've heard before. We go deeper, We talk to locals, reporters, and people who actually live where you wanna visit, not just the ones who want your tourist dollars. We cover the food and landmarks, sure, but we also ask the harder questions. What is the real history here? The often sad and traumatic history? What new challenge is this place facing? And how can you show up as a visitor who actually makes things better? My co-host David Moses and I, along with a team of journalists, are hitting destinations around the world to expose the truth, give voice to victims throughout history, and get the story straight. With new destinations and episodes every other week.

Wherever It Leads from Luna Shark. Find it wherever you listen to your podcasts or visit whereveritleadspod.com. I spend most of my life following paper trails, so believe me when I say that I have done the math on my closet. And the pieces that I actually wear on repeat? They are all from Quince. Quince makes elevated everyday essentials from premium materials: Mongolian cashmere, organic cotton, and washable silk. And here's the part I really respect: they work directly with ethical factories and cut out the middlemen. You're paying for quality, not markup. It's not just apparel either. They bring the same approach to hotel-quality bedding, bath, and kitchen essentials. This fall, like last fall, my go-to will be my cashmere crew neck. I've reached for it basically every cool morning since it showed up, and nobody believes what I paid for it. Find the fall pieces you'll reach for most at Quince. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to quince.com/coj. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK too. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com/coj. In 2014, as a part of its Valentine's Day coverage and almost a year after Chris and Suzie moved to the Market Commons neighborhood, where Solid Rock is, the Myrtle Beach Sun-News wrote about their love story.

According to the paper, Chris was dating a nursing student that he had hoped to marry when he met then-25-year-old Suzie. He was around 20 at the time and it was just 3 months after the crash, when he was adjusting to his new body. Chris told his grandfather about his plans and his grandpa was like, whoa, make a list first. He told Chris to write out the qualities that he wanted in a woman. The next month, Chris said that he found all of those qualities in Suzy. He was quoted saying, I just got hit by this force. I thought, this is exactly what I want. As Susie's patient, Chris worked with her for 8 weeks, 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Here's David with an excerpt from that story.

Chris said he was in a sensitive, intimate, and vulnerable situation, and Susie was, quote, incredibly professional as he poured his heart out during that emotional time. It also was emotional for Susie, who said she had never worked with someone so acute. They worked on strength and balance, aiming for him to get in and out of his wheelchair on his own, but they didn't reach their goal. That was a new experience for Susie, who had had success with her other patients, but she said Chris's personality was new for her too. What was different about Chris Is he is always very honest, Susie said.

At some point after his therapy with Susie, Chris contracted MRSA, and according to the paper, Chris and his mother guilted Susie into visiting him at the hospital. But even then, they didn't connect romantically. It wasn't until later in 2002, according to the paper, when Chris was hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and ran into Susie at an overlook. He asked if he could give her a call. On the 3rd anniversary of his crash, he proposed to Susie at that same overlook. In 2023, after Chris's death, a blog about them was posted on Solid Rock's website. Here's what Susie recalled about this event. There was a handicap-accessible hiking trail in the mountains of Radford, and he proposed on this overlook. Actually, now that I think about it, that was the trail we walked on our first date. I forgot about that. 6 months after Chris proposed, they got married. In 2007, they had twins. At the end of the Myrtle Beach story, the reporter left readers with this thought from Chris, I used to think no one's ever going to love me, and I wanted to be more normal, but now I've realized no one's normal.

Before the accident, it seems like that life didn't exist, like it was like a different universe. My life is so much sweeter now. Shortly after Chris and Susie moved to Myrtle Beach, their neighbors raised $5,000 for them to pay the medical expenses on a Yorkie rescue who became Chris's service dog and was there with him when he died. In 2016, the community secured a grant to renovate Chris and Susie's home to make it handicapped accessible. That year, they had a deck built on their home with a wheelchair ramp and wheelchair-friendly grass planted in their yard. Inside the house, they converted all their lighting to LED so he wouldn't have to change out his light bulbs for a while, and they put handles instead of knobs on cabinets so that he could open them. In a story about this that ran in the Myrtle Beach Sun, Susie is quoted as saying, I love Chris. I love my husband. I love that he's so sacrificing, like with his own comfort. He'll be in pain and he'll do whatever the kids and I want to do. He just pushes himself through it. And so it just means a lot to me because this gives him some comfort.

It gives him the ability to do things on his own, and he doesn't have to work as hard. He doesn't have to call neighbors and call people and ask them to help and all that. He doesn't have to struggle as much. A few months after that story ran, the Myrtle Beach Sun ran a front-page piece about the Adaptive Surf Project, which Chris was a part of. Yes, he was a surfer. In 2013, the Adaptive Surf Project raised money to create a surfboard for Chris that included bumpers, Handles, grips, and a slope that lifted Chris's chest off the board. Chris told the paper that surfing felt like a homecoming to him. 7 years after Chris's return to surfing, ESPN reporter Marty Smith, who Chris knew from Radford, along with the help of country singers Luke Bryan and Cole Swindle and Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, helped raise money for Chris to have a customized all-terrain wheelchair. that allowed him to move around the beach better and without injury. That appears to be the wheelchair he was in the day he died. Marty made a video about it and posted it online. The video went viral. We're going to play a little of that video so you can hear Chris's voice.

For those of you who have been following Micah Francis's story closely, you're going to notice something odd. He sounds a little like JP.

You know, there's not a day that goes by the last 18, 19 years where I Well, I don't think back and go, put your seatbelt on, man.

I'm gonna put this in that vertical zipper of your backpack where your meds are. Did you take your afternoon meds?

Yep. It was on a day just like today. I put my feet on the floor for the very, very last time, stood up, took a shower on my own for the very last time, went and dressed myself for the very last time. It was a day of many last times for me. I went to a wedding of a friend of mine, and when I went to the reception, I got intoxicated. Later that evening when we were driving, we were going 750 yards away when the vehicle flipped and I was thrown out. I made a choice not to put a seatbelt on. You know, I tried to get up just like we all think we're gonna do every day, you know, put our feet on the ground and get up. I tried to move, I just couldn't move at all. Then I heard this noise and I look over and I saw my friend getting out on his hands and knees, and I was in the ditch, you know. And I remember when we made eye contact, it was the scariest Eye contact I've ever felt in my life. He ran to me, got down on one knee, held my head, wiped the blood out of my mouth, and said the words that no 20-year-old should ever hear at that time.

And he said, don't die on me, man.

Now, Chris struggled. We don't want to paint the picture that everything was a lesson in positivity every day. But the biggest takeaways from the answer to the question, who was Chris Skinner, are these: 1. He was a man who knew how to dig deep and overcome setbacks in life. 2. His life's mission was to make young people understand that there are consequences for their actions. 3. He could move his arms and fingers. 4. He was not only comfortable in the water, he was comfortable in tidal water with waves. 5. He loved his life and he loved his wife. And 6. His faith was incredibly important to him. So in 2019, they joined Solid Rock Church. That means inner JP Miller, right? That is who Chris Skinner was. A man with his own story, his own ministry, His own family, before his death became a footnote in someone else's. Now, let's go to the morning of September 6th, 2021. Thanks to Beth Braden's FOIA request, Luna Shark was able to be the first media outlet to obtain the 911 call from the Emmons Preserve pool. What you're about to hear is that call, followed by what passed for an investigation and shouldn't have.

A death certificate. A closed case and a police report that is way too short. In September 2021, Chris Skinner was found unresponsive in his neighborhood pool. He drowned to death, according to records. Allison said it was around this time and around the time that JP applied to get a pardon so that he could get a gun that she began to witness increasingly concerning behavior from JP. which eventually led to Micah seeking her counsel about what to do next. Due to the dogged FOIAing from Beth Braden and the brilliant mind of Liz Farrell, Luna Shark was the first media outlet to receive the 911 call to the incident that led to Chris Skinner's death on September 6th, 2021. At 8:54 PM, a woman called Myrtle Beach Police from the Emmons Preserve neighborhood pool, which is about 1.4 miles from JP's church, to say that she found a man in the pool as she was getting ready to do her water aerobics class. We are going to play this entire 911 call for you.

He's gone. He's gone. Myrtle Beach 911, what is the address of your emergency? I don't know the actual address, but it's on the corner of Yorkshire Parkway And Wellington Way in Evans— Yorkshire and Wellington? Yes, ma'am. It's our pool. It's Evans Preserve Pool in the Evans Preserve community in Market Commons. Okay, what's going on? We have a dead body in our pool. You have a dead body in your pool? Yes, ma'am. They tell me it's a male. It's a— his name— he was disabled. His wheelchair And all is in the pool. Okay. All right, I'm gonna hold on. We can't— how long has he been in there? I don't know, but he's been in there some time because when I first got here at 8 o'clock, I thought it was a, uh, an inner tube that was, you know, deflated. I didn't go over and look.

I'm sorry?

Okay, ma'am, just stay on the line with me. I'm just talking to my fire dispatch here.

Okay.

I don't even know his, his wife's phone number. Okay, okay. Is there, is there anyone out there Yes, we were having water— we were going to have water aerobics, so there's like 4 of us here right now. So yeah, someone will be here to let them in. Okay, is anyone trying to, to get him out, or— They tried, they tried to get him out, but they can't move. Is he still in the wheelchair? He's still in his wheelchair. He could— she could not move anything. Okay, stay on the line. Just updating them now. Okay, we've got paramedics on the way. Thank you. I think he's gone. And I just— who's gone?

The body.

Oh yeah, okay, okay, okay. All right, and I just want to make sure— you said you're Yorkshire and Wellington, correct? Yeah, there's a clubhouse here. You'll see the clubhouse and the pools just beyond it. We'll have someone at both gates. Okay, okay. Are you a resident there, or are you—

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Yes, yes, I am a resident. All right, here we go. Let me just update them because they're on the way.

I'm sorry.

That's okay.

They should be able to get here. It's on the corner of Yorkshire and Wellington Way anyway, so— He never goes alone, you know what I mean? Why do you think that? Okay. Yeah, he's in the— he's in the wheelchair. They can't get them out. Who are you talking to? 911. Well, I'm talking to Myrtle Beach. She's got paramedics on the way. I talked to, uh, it was Horry County first. All right, ma'am. All right, perfect. Yep, they are on the way. I've got units coming to you. Okay. Okay, thank you. We will have someone at the gate to let them in. Yes, ma'am, I did update them now. Okay. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

According to Chris Skinner's death certificate, he died at 12:41 PM at Grand Strand Medical Center. Deputy Coroner Tamara A. Willard ruled his manner of death an accident and his cause of death being asphyxiation due to drowning. He was cremated and the Myrtle Beach Police closed the case 2 days after his death. Let's be clear here, we are not Accusing anyone of murder. There is no evidence that ties JP or anyone to the death of Chris Skinner. However, we learned in the Murdaugh case that it is so important to put sunlight on those newsworthy elements of an investigation that just don't add up. An example: Gloria Satterfield. As the threads just might lead down a road to justice. Among the documents we got back through Beth's FOIAs was a 2-page investigative report that states the date, time, and place of the incident, followed by a short summary that included the following.

On September 6th, 2021, at approximately 0854 hours, I, PFC Liuzzi, responded to 1145 Yorkshire Parkway, which is within the city limits of Myrtle Beach. In reference to a drowning. When I arrived on scene, I observed a wheelchair in the pool and began speaking to witnesses and family members. The victim was transported by medics to the hospital and Sergeant Gibson was notified. There is nothing further at this time.

There is nothing further at this time. That's how the report ends on a man's death 2 days in. But there was something further. After that episode aired in June 2024, more records and footage came in, and our team spent weeks syncing the timestamps, which surveillance was an hour behind and the dashcam was weirdly 8 hours behind. And we had to reconstruct what actually happened at that pool minute by minute. Something about what you'll hear next It includes who arrived, when, and what they did, including Susie, and including JP and Micah themselves. Listen for the detail about the chess game. In 2 years, through all the attention that this case has gotten, the protests, the documentary, a federal indictment, no chess player who was supposedly meeting Chris that morning has ever come forward. This is from True Sunlight Podcast, Episode 76. According to surveillance footage, Chris fell into the pool at 7:56 AM. So when this woman saw him at 8:50 AM and thought that he was a deflated pool toy, he hadn't been there for long. According to the CAD report, police reports, and dashcam footage, the first police officer arrived on that scene at 8:59 AM, about 9 minutes after the 911 call.

We are not sure if there are 2 911 calls and we only received one of them because when the officer got there, the fire department was already there and performing CPR on Chris. Now the timeline between the reports and the videos is a little screwy and details don't always line up perfectly. The surveillance footage timestamps are an hour behind. That really threw us off. The dashcam timestamps are 8 hours behind. The CAD timestamps also appear to be a few minutes off. We need to talk more about this footage and what we saw after our team reviewed it multiple times after a short break, and we will be right back.

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Hey y'all, it's Manny Matty. If you're listening to Coerced, you already know. That Micah Francis Miller's story runs so much deeper than what the world saw on Netflix. This week on True Sunlight, Liz Farrell and I are breaking down what Death of the Pastor's Wife left out. And trust me, it is a lot. Like JP's felon father, Reginald Wayne Miller, and how JP inherited the playbook from him. The manipulation, the lawsuit, the just keep preaching arrogance. Straight from his daddy. Plus, we talk about the 2 Jane Doe lawsuits that Netflix barely touched. And we tell you a whole lot about JP's ex-wife that Netflix left out. Remember, Justice for Micah is a movement, not a moment. And the full story matters. So follow True Sunlight wherever you're listening right now, and check out episode 163, What Netflix Left Out of the Micah Frances Miller Story. Stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight. Now, according to the dashcam, Suzy arrived on the scene right after the ambulance did at 9:01 AM. You can see her round the corner of the intersection near the pool area. She is running and there is a bald, barefoot man running behind her.

It is not clear who he is. According to the police report, Susie approached the officer to tell him that Chris had a living will that he had done during a trip to Virginia and he had a do not resuscitate order. The officer told her to go get the paperwork to show the first responders. According to the report, she left and came back and did not have a form filled out for a DNR. It is not clear when she did that though. Because according to the dashcam footage, at 9:04 AM, 3 minutes after Suzy got there, first responders came through with Chris on a stretcher. One of them was holding a bag-valve mask to Chris's face and appeared to be pumping it. As Chris was being loaded into the ambulance, Suzy and the bald barefoot man talked to another barefoot man who was with fire and rescue and likely one of the first responders who went into the water to rescue Chris. Though they seemed to continue to perform life-saving measures on Chris, the ambulance didn't move for another 7 minutes. When it did, it revealed that Susie was still on the scene. Whether she went home and came back in that time isn't clear, but she was on the neighbor's lawn and receiving hugs from people.

Then she was gone for several minutes before returning at 9:24 AM. She was holding the hand of a police officer, And walking with a small group of people, including the bald, barefoot man. They rounded the corner of the intersection near the pool area and walked through the gate of the pool. For most of that time, Susie had her right hand in the air in the same way that people do when they're praising God. It looked strange. At this point, she was carrying a purse.

At 9:39 a.m., a first responder put up police tape at the entrance of the pool area just as JP and Micah pulled up in a maroon pickup truck, which they parked on the corner at that intersection. JP walked fast out in front of Micah, and she at times jogged a little to try to keep up with him. When they got to the police tape, they appeared to have been told to wait there. JP stood with his hands on his hips, and Micah stood apart from him a bit. At one point, JP put his head in his hands. Shortly after, Susie appeared, and again, she put her hand up in the air in that same way she had it when she was walking earlier. When Susie came out from behind the police tape, Micah hugged her, and the 3 of them walked away together with Susie in the middle. Micah continued to rub Susie's back as they walked to JP's truck and got into it. It feels important to remind you all about this one more time. JP's ex-wife, Allison, says that at this point she had already warned JP and Susie to stop their alleged affair, and that 2 weeks prior to Chris's death, Chris himself had told JP to stay away from his family.

Another thing to remind you about. Remember Micah's list? JP was not an early riser, according to Micah. He liked to sleep late, so it's possible he had to be woken up for this. Now, according to the police report, earlier that morning, A man had been in the area of the pool when he saw Chris out for what is called his normal tour around the neighborhood. Chris approached the man and asked him to open the door to the pool for him because he was going to be meeting up with someone to play chess. So the man did that. He used his key card to open the gate for Chris, but didn't follow him in, according to the report. After police arrived on the scene, they notified a detective in the crime scene unit. And then they pulled the surveillance footage. According to the report, Chris had entered the pool area and gone over to the area where the chess sets were. He had his dog with him. Then Chris and the dog went around the pool. We were given a series of clips from this surveillance footage, but no video that actually shows that. We do, however, have a video that corresponds with this description from the police.

The victim then stops at a curve in the pool and then suddenly moves quickly forward and goes into the water. But what we see on the footage looks a little different, and this is important because Chris's death was ruled an accident, meaning the chair either malfunctioned or Chris accidentally directed it into the water. We see Chris stopped at the edge of the pool in his wheelchair. His dog is by his feet. Chris slowly moves forward, perhaps a few inches. He stops for 4 seconds. Then he goes forward into the pool. The video then shows his dog sniffing the pine mulch near where Chris just had been. The dog sees Chris go into the pool and goes to the edge and sort of looks over. According to the police report, Chris lifted his head a few times after falling in the water. We can't see that because the video is redacted with a black box over Chris once he's in the pool. A clip from 5 or 6 minutes after this shows Chris's dog wandering and sniffing around the pool area. Now, we took a look in Chris's probate file, and like Susie said, he did have a will that was drawn up in Radford, Virginia, but it doesn't appear to be from a recent trip.

It was on March 28th, 2007, which would be right before his twins were due to be born. And it doesn't appear to be a living will, as the officer said Susie told him it was. And there's no part of it that addresses what to do if Chris were to need resuscitation or Intubation. This doesn't mean that a DNR or DNI don't exist. If they do, they're not part of this probate file. Chris made Susie the executor of his estate, and the court approved her appointment as personal representative. In an inventory of his assets, Susie listed that Chris had no assets apart from 50% ownership of a Toyota Sienna minivan worth about $25,000. The 2 owned their home jointly, but Susie listed Chris's real estate holdings as $0. This could be because the deed passed ownership of the home onto the surviving spouse if the other died. The only debts listed in Chris's probate file are a $623 credit card bill and his cremation costs of $3,428, which appears to have been paid by his stepfather, Michael Hinson. If there was an insurance policy on Chris, it was not listed.

Okay, so let's talk about this. Chris's death was ruled an accident by the Horry County Coroner. Police appeared to close their investigation into the incident on September 7th, 2021, just one day after Chris's death. The investigation was quick, but that is standard considering that a video pretty much ruled out the possibility of this being criminal. After reviewing the video, we can now definitely say that no one pushed Chris Skinner in the pool. But what if something else was going on? This past September, the statute of limitation ran out on Susie's ability to sue the manufacturer of the wheelchair company, and no claim was filed that we can find. This either means that she did not suspect the wheelchair was at all at fault, Couldn't prove it, or possibly she just didn't want to take on the fight. Let's just say the wheelchair wasn't at fault. Then that means— if this was an accident, that Chris didn't mean to drive himself into the pool, right? It is odd that Chris, according to the police report, went to the area where the chessboards were and then drove to the curve of the pool. Where we can see him stopped before moving forward a few inches and then stopping for a few seconds and then plunging into the water.

The controller to Chris's wheelchair, the thing that moved him around, was on his left armrest. It is a long lever that stands straight up, almost like a large joystick from an old arcade game. If the chair did not malfunction, Then it means this lever was likely pressed forward. Journalist Beth Braden did some digging into this chair, and it appears that this wheelchair was equipped with an attendant controller or a remote control option. But it's hard to tell for sure. When we watch the surveillance footage, you can appear to see, although it is blurry, what looks like Chris moving the joystick forward. So the question becomes, did he mean to? Because guess what? Remember the part where Chris told the guy who opened the gate for him that he was meeting someone to play chess? The police report says that they saw footage of Chris go over in that area, but that footage was not given to us in our FOIA request with the rest of the clips. The report doesn't mention that anyone else was in the pool area at the time of Chris's death, there is no mention of anyone trying to track down the person who Chris was supposedly there to play chess with.

Since Chris's death and the spotlight brought on by Micah's death, when rumors about Chris's death and Suzie's relationship with JP had been flying around, there doesn't appear to be anyone who has come forward to say, it was me, he was supposed to meet me on that day. Because without that person, it looks like there was never a chess player, which would mean that Chris lied about the reason that he was there. And if he lied about the reason why he was there, are we to believe that he then had the misfortune of falling into the water by accident? Here's what stays with me from that footage. Micah jogging to keep up with JP, rubbing Susie's back as the 3 of them walk to JP's truck together. Micah comforting the woman who is now married to her widower. Whatever happened at that pool on September 6th, 2021, again, no one has been charged and there is no evidence tying anyone to Chris's death. The investigation lasted 2 days, And still, the person that he said he was meeting for chess never came forward. Chris Skinner's family deserves the same thing Micah's family has spent 2 years fighting for— an investigation worthy of the person they lost.

On the next episode of Coerced, we go back to where JP says that Micah's story really begins— March 2018. 3 months into their marriage, when Micah allegedly attempted to take her own life. It's the record that JP has pointed to more than any other, and the documents around it show you why he wouldn't want anyone looking closely. Until next time, stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight. Coerced: The Devotion and Death of Micah Frances Miller is a Luna Shark production with reporting from journalists Mandy Matney, Liz Farrell, and Beth Braden, made possible by producers Kate Thomas, Grace Hills, and David Moses. Learn more about our mission and membership at lunasharkmedia.com.