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Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott keeps this combined episode focused on the pattern Mica Miller’s family says the law repeatedly failed to capture. Mica left journals, diaries and police reports describing alleged control over medication, unwanted injections, sleep deprivation, tracking and harassment. Scott explains why coercive control is often missed when institutions evaluate each incident on its own instead of asking whether one person is steadily stripping away another person’s choices. 
That is the problem Mica’s Law is designed to address. South Carolina’s SB 702 would add coercive control to the state’s domestic-violence framework and make repeated controlling behavior a criminal offense. The bill stalled during the 2026 session and remains unpassed. Scott examines what that gap means for families who can describe an entire pattern but cannot point to one statute that names it. 
JP Miller is now charged federally with cyberstalking and making false statements. Prosecutors allege that from November 2022 through April 27, 2024, he repeatedly contacted Mica, interfered with her finances and daily activities, damaged her tires, posted an intimate image without consent and caused tracking devices to be placed on her vehicle. JP has pleaded not guilty and has not been charged in connection with Mica’s death. His case is scheduled for the October 2026 federal trial term. 
The second half of the episode looks at what came next. JP married Suzie Skinner in June 2025. Suzie’s former husband Chris Skinner died in a pool in September 2021, and authorities ruled the drowning accidental. His family has publicly questioned that ruling, while reporting says the case has been revisited. No one has been charged in Chris Skinner’s death. 
Netflix interviewees have alleged JP and Suzie were involved before Mica died; JP has denied that and said the relationship began later. Scott looks at why a new relationship can become part of an alleged controller’s public reset while making clear that remarriage itself proves nothing about criminal conduct. 
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The Mica Miller Netflix documentary revived one old label that has a very different September 2026 answer attached to it. JP Miller called Mark Kaufman his best friend from the Solid Rock pulpit, while Kaufman's September statement says JP was never part of the core friend group he regularly spent time with. 
Kaufman was not a stranger on the edge of the story. He served as best man at JP and Mica's 2017 wedding, where archival video captured him joking about JP forcing him into the friendship. On the morning after Mica died, JP again used the best-friend label publicly before Kaufman sang during the church service. 
In September 2026, Kaufman pushed back on how that relationship has been portrayed. He says he never witnessed mistreatment of Mica, denies claims that he helped JP pursue another woman, and says he has cut ties with JP and the church. Reporting says their business connection also ended when JP's minority interest in Crocodile Rocks was bought out in late 2025. 
The second half of this combined episode goes back to the May 5, 2024 memorial, where JP said he had spent time beside Mica's body on several occasions and claimed he tried to raise her from the dead. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke examines the psychology behind loyalty, denial, coercive-control allegations, and the public distancing that can follow when a closed community becomes the subject of federal scrutiny and national media attention. 
Federal prosecutors accuse JP of cyberstalking Mica and lying to investigators. The indictment alleges conduct beginning in November 2022, including tracking devices, more than 50 contacts in one day, financial interference, an intimate image posted without consent, and a tire-deflation device. JP pleaded not guilty, has not been charged in Mica's death, and is awaiting trial in the October 2026 term. 
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Lindsay Clancy's hung jury left the Commonwealth with the option of trying the case again, but Kevin Reddington is asking the court to stop that path before it starts. The September 29 hearing will address a Rule 25 motion along with the defense's broader attack on the necessity of the mistrial. 
The two arguments are not interchangeable. Rule 25 concerns whether the evidence was sufficient as a matter of law. Reddington's double-jeopardy position asks whether the mistrial itself was necessary after one juror prevented unanimity despite reportedly acknowledging reasonable doubt. 
The record from the final days of deliberations gives both sides something to point to. The jury reported that a member was not applying the reasonable-doubt instruction. Reddington wanted the juror removed. Judge William Sullivan declined because Massachusetts law sharply limits when a deliberating juror can be discharged, especially when the dispute may involve the juror's view of the evidence. 
The instructions also contained language pulling in different directions during a deadlock. Jurors were told to follow the law as the judge gave it. They were also told that a verdict must remain the result of each juror's own convictions. The charge then made clear that a remaining reasonable doubt requires acquittal. 
Defense attorney Bob Motta analyzes how those instructions could shape the post-mistrial fight and what the judge can actually do under Rule 25. The prosecution has not announced its retrial decision. September 29 therefore becomes more than a scheduling date: it is the first test of whether this case moves toward another jury or toward a legal ending in the same courtroom. 
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Donna Adelson’s emails and family testimony became central evidence in the Dan Markel murder trial because they showed what followed the court ruling that kept Wendi Adelson and her sons in Tallahassee. Wendi testified that Donna pushed ideas aimed at pressuring Markel, including baptizing the children as Christians, dressing them in Hitler Youth uniforms, and offering him $1 million to permit the relocation.
 
Wendi’s description of her mother was equally direct. She told jurors Donna “micromanaged my life.” Robert Adelson testified that Donna was on the controlling side and “ran the show.” His testimony described a mother who stayed deeply involved in the choices of her adult children and expected compliance when she had decided how something should go.
 
Charlie Adelson’s relationship with Donna became another part of that picture. After Charlie was convicted in 2023 of murder, conspiracy, and solicitation, detention records showed 86 calls to Donna’s phone number in seven days. Those calls totaled 2,118 minutes. At Donna’s trial, financial investigator Mary Hull testified that Donna had also managed hotels, flights, and bills for Charlie. 
Katherine Magbanua testified that Charlie sometimes stepped away to contact Donna during discussions about the murder plot. She also told jurors that Charlie said Donna washed cash that was damp and moldy. Magbanua testified that she received 44 checks from the Adelson dental practice despite never working there. The defense maintained Donna wrote the checks at Charlie’s direction and rejected the prosecution’s interpretation of those payments. 
A Florida jury convicted Donna in 2025 of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation for orchestrating Markel’s killing. She received a life sentence. Her direct appeal remains open before Florida’s First District Court of Appeal, making the appellate record the next place the case will be tested. 
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Matthew Farwell is heading toward trial with two competing stories about Sandra Birchmore’s death and an official record that has already changed. The Massachusetts medical examiner originally ruled suicide. In April 2026, the office amended the manner of death to undetermined and changed the cause from asphyxia by hanging to asphyxia. 
Farwell’s lawyers maintain Sandra killed herself. A federal judge has ruled that they may introduce evidence about her mental-health struggles and history of suicidal thoughts. Prosecutors will argue that the case cannot be reduced to those records. They allege Farwell used his authority in the Stoughton Police Explorers program to begin an unlawful relationship with Sandra when she was 15 and later killed her to stop disclosure. 
Sandra had joined the youth program at 12. A later Stoughton internal investigation found that Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William, and former deputy chief Robert Devine had inappropriate relationships with her. William Farwell and Devine have not been charged in the federal prosecution. 
The early handling of Sandra’s death is also expected to matter. Federal prosecutors say local officers told the medical examiner there was “no foul play” within about an hour of finding her body. They say investigators did not compel Farwell’s DNA and did not seize his electronic devices during the first investigation. 
Federal investigators later returned to the evidence. Prosecutors have said testing showed Farwell was a major DNA contributor on the duffel-bag strap found at the scene. Defense lawyers say the strap contained a complex mixture and dispute the government’s interpretation. 
Farwell has pleaded not guilty to charges of killing a witness and causing the death of Sandra’s unborn son. The defense says suicide. The prosecution alleges homicide and staging. Jury selection is scheduled for October 5, 2026. 
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