The Robbie Harvey Show

Justice for Sandra Birchmore: Matthew Farwell Found GUILTY | Interview with TikTok Criminal Lawyer Katie

On November 10, 2026, a federal jury in Boston convicted former Stoughton, Massachusetts police detective Matthew Farwell of killing 23-year-old pregnant Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. Farwell faces mandatory life in prison. I sat down with Katie (@KTcrimlaw), a practicing criminal lawyer and TikTok legal analyst, to break down the verdict, the evidence that flipped the initial suicide ruling, and what this case reveals about police accountability. Sandra Birchmore met Farwell through the Stoughton Police Explorers program as a child. Prosecutors proved he sexually abused her starting when she was 15 (he was 27) and later strangled her on February 1, 2021, in her Canton apartment, staging the scene to look like a suicide with a duffel-bag strap. Local authorities initially ruled it a suicide. The FBI reopened the case, the medical examiner later changed the manner of death to undetermined, and federal prosecutors charged Farwell with killing a witness/victim and causing the death of a child in utero. Katie (@KTcrimlaw) is a licensed attorney who specializes in making criminal law clear and accessible. On TikTok she covers trials, evidence, procedure, and high-profile cases so viewers “sound smarter when they talk about criminal law.” In this interview she walks through the federal charges, the staging evidence, the grooming timeline, the significance of the initial botched local investigation, and the broader implications for police youth programs and accountability.

Pastor Allowed Registered Sex Offender at Church School... Now The Charges are Dropped.

A registered sex offender who was convicted of possessing explicit child material volunteered as a custodian at Pawleys Island Community Church and its Christian Academy preschool in South Carolina while longtime pastor Don Williams and other leaders knew about his status. In July 2026 the story exploded after a parent tip and arrests followed. But in November 2026 a judge dismissed every criminal charge, calling it poor judgment but not a crime and blaming state probation officials. This episode breaks down the full timeline, what probation allegedly knew, the church’s public explanations, the lack of evidence of physical abuse found by investigators, the academy’s closure, and why the criminal case collapsed.

Exclusive: Goncalves Family Attorney on Influencer Cease & Desists

In this exclusive sit-down, I interview Stephanie Giancristofaro-Partyka, the attorney representing Steve and Kristi Goncalves, about the cease-and-desist letters sent to influencers and content creators accused of defaming the family in the Idaho Murders case. Steve and Kristi Goncalves, parents of Kaylee Goncalves (one of the four University of Idaho students killed in 2022), have directed their attorney to issue multiple cease-and-desist letters (reports range from 13 to over 20) over “false and defamatory claims.” Accusations cited by the attorney include claims that Steve sex-trafficked or drug-trafficked their daughter (including allegations of owing a gang $700,000 that led to retribution), and that Kristi was involved in money laundering. Some creators have already complied by removing content and issuing public apologies; others face a deadline or potential civil lawsuits seeking at least $75,000 per influencer. The family has said this is not about money but about stopping a campaign of hate and harassment. We discuss what the letters demand, why the family took this step now, the difference between speculation and actionable defamation, how many creators have responded, and what happens next.

The Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Cult: Why They Blame the Husband

The Lindsay Clancy case has an official version both sides agree on: she killed her three young children and then tried to die. Yet a large online community has built an entire alternative narrative that her ex-husband did it (or framed her). This show goes inside that community—TikTok “forensic fandom,” Reddit threads, Instagram influencers, and the pattern that shows up in other high-profile cases. On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy strangled her children Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months) with exercise bands while her then-husband Patrick was out running errands. She then cut herself and jumped from a second-story window. She survived and is paralyzed from the waist down. She has admitted the killings. Her defense is that she lacked criminal responsibility because of postpartum psychosis. Patrick has a corroborated alibi (CVS, phone records, surveillance). Her own lawyer has said she rejects theories that blame him. The 2026 trial ended in a hung jury; the case remains active. Despite that, large pockets of social media treat Patrick as the real perpetrator. Common claims include body-double theories about the CVS trip, readings of his body language or shoes, the fact that he later remarried and moved, and supposed “smoking guns” from body temperature or 911 timing. TikTok has hosted everything from detailed breakdowns to Bratz-doll crime-scene reenactments. Reddit communities (including r/DuxburyDeathsFreeTalk) and Instagram accounts have amplified the same ideas. One influencer associated with the account saltylunatics was later charged with unlawful wiretapping after posting audio involving Patrick’s father. Experts and journalists have pointed to several drivers: the sheer difficulty of accepting that a seemingly devoted mother could do this, the true-crime preference for clean villains, algorithm rewards for engagement, and some viewers projecting their own experiences with postpartum illness or difficult relationships. Similar dynamics have appeared around other cases.In this video I break down the main theories, the evidence against them, how the communities operate, and what this says about online true-crime culture.

She Killed Her Dad, Claimed Self-Defense... Then the Story Fell Apart

On January 20, 2026, around 2:45 a.m., 28-year-old Summer Coughran called 911 from the family’s northwest Albuquerque home and said she had just shot her 65-year-old father, Kirk Coughran. Police arrived to find him dead from gunshot wounds; investigators determined he had been dead for at least 15 hours. She claimed self-defense: he attacked her that night and had abused her her entire life. She reportedly described him as a “known pedophile” and someone “known to beat women” (no convictions). Her statements were inconsistent...she could not clearly describe the lifelong abuse or the specific actions that night that would put a reasonable person in fear for their life and did not match the physical evidence. Her brother told police their father was not physically abusive and that Summer “saw incidents differently.” Background included a schizophrenia diagnosis (and reports she may have been off medication), prior incidents in which she was the aggressor (including threats with a knife; father declined to press charges in some cases), a December 24, 2024 charge of aggravated assault on a peace officer, and a subsequent restraining order obtained by a family member after threats. So... what really happened that night? Did Summer genuinely fear for her life... or was this murder?

Famed Evangelist Jesse Duplantis Preached at John-Paul Miller’s Church. Why?!?

Jesse Duplantis preached at John-Paul Miller’s Solid Rock Church. In this video I break down the full sermon, what he actually said, and why one of the biggest prosperity gospel names was there in the middle of the Mica Miller case. In this deep dive I walk through the January 2024 guest sermon (and the surrounding context), the specific statements that stood out, how JP Miller interacted with him on stage, and what it reveals about the circles around Solid Rock in the months before Mica’s death on April 27, 2024. I also cover why Duplantis would accept the invitation and how this fits into the larger story now being retold in Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife.

JP Miller Unedited Interviews Expose More Lies

Never-before-seen unedited interviews of John-Paul Miller reveal more of his lies in the Mica Miller case. These raw JP Miller interviews expose contradictions that go beyond the NewsNation sit-down and the Netflix documentary Death of the Pastor’s Wife.In this video I play previously unreleased, unedited footage and audio of Pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller. You will hear him in his own words on topics surrounding Mica’s death, their marriage, and the events leading up to April 27, 2024. Family, friends, and public records have repeatedly contradicted his statements. These interviews show more of the pattern.Official ruling remains suicide. JP Miller has not been charged in connection with Mica’s death. He faces federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements (trial currently set for January 2027). He has pleaded not guilty.

The Sandra Birchmore Case: Cop on Trial for Alleged Staged Suicide

A former Massachusetts police detective is on trial for allegedly killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and staging her death to look like a suicide. Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell began sexually abusing Birchmore when she was just 15 years old while he was a volunteer instructor in the Stoughton Police Explorers youth program. The relationship allegedly continued for years, including while he was on duty, until she became pregnant in late 2020. Prosecutors allege he strangled her with a bag strap in her Canton apartment on or about February 1, 2021, then staged the scene as a hanging suicide so she could not expose the underage abuse and other crimes. Her death was originally ruled a suicide by state authorities. The medical examiner later changed the manner of death to “undetermined.” DNA testing later showed Farwell was not the biological father of the unborn child, though prosecutors say he believed he was at the time. Surveillance footage, thousands of text messages, forensic findings (including injuries consistent with strangulation rather than hanging), and testimony from friends who said Birchmore was excited about the pregnancy are central to the federal case. Farwell has pleaded not guilty.

South Carolina’s System Failed Mica Miller — Lawyer Lori Explains Why

Lawyer Lori (Columbia, SC criminal defense and personal injury attorney) sits down with me to break down exactly why the state of South Carolina failed to protect Mica Miller in the weeks and months before her death. Mica made repeated contacts with Horry County authorities (reports and 911 calls involving stalking, tracking devices, harassment, and alleged physical incidents). Under South Carolina law at the time, coercive control was not recognized as abuse, and she did not qualify for a restraining order once she had moved out. Lawyer Lori walks through the legal gaps, the police responses that treated many issues as “civil matters,” and what the system got wrong.

Mama Tot on Mica Miller & Netflix’s Pastor’s Wife Doc

Mama Tot sits down with me on John-Paul Miller, Mica Miller, and Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife.Death of the Pastor’s Wife dropped on Netflix August 26, 2026. It follows Mica Francis Miller, the 30-year-old worship leader at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, from the moment she met pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller as a teenager through their marriage, the allegations of coercive control and cyberstalking, and her death at Lumber River State Park on April 27, 2024 — two days after JP was served with divorce papers. Her death was ruled a suicide. Her family has never accepted that the story ends there. In December 2025 a federal grand jury indicted JP on cyberstalking and making false statements to investigators. He has pleaded not guilty. Trial is set for January 2027.Mama Tot (Ophelia Nichols) is not a true-crime commentator. She’s the voice millions of people go to when a story about a young woman, a church, control, and a family that can’t get answers starts to feel personal. In this interview we talk through the documentary, JP’s public narrative, Mica’s own words, and why this case is still unfinished.If you only listen to one reaction to the Netflix series, start here.

Pastor Pam Interview - She Tried to Hold JP Miller Accountable. The Church Wouldn’t.

Pastor Pam Muise, the Solid Rock pastor from Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife, sits down and goes past the documentary on John-Paul Miller. She says a church phone started receiving his texts about picking up a young woman at the airport — and that the elders had no power to stop him. In Death of the Pastor’s Wife, Pastor Pam says she was brought in after JP and Mica’s relationship became public while both were still married to other people. She first treated it as a one-time mistake. Then, she says, the real John-Paul Miller became evident. Pastor Pam says the elders listened and did nothing — and that she learned Solid Rock’s structure left them with no authority over him at all.

The Forgotten Sermons of John-Paul Miller

John-Paul Miller built Solid Rock at Market Common in Myrtle Beach and, on tape, taught wives that sex was a non-negotiable duty. One line that Netflix put back in circulation: if a wife does not meet her husband’s sexual needs, “Satan will put 20 different options before his eyes before the day is over.” Another: “When your husband wants sex, God doesn’t send an angel from heaven to take care of that.” A fantastic marriage, he told the room, is “my needs are being met. Today.” Friends, family, and Mica’s own record say that doctrine did not stay in the sanctuary. Mica was a teenage parishioner, then his assistant, then his wife. People close to her describe bedtimes, medication, money, and movement controlled in the name of submission. The New York Times put it plainly after the documentary: he used her faith as the method of control. Christianity Today noted the bylaws gave him, by his own account, 100 percent decision-making authority. No elder board could pull him off that stage. We walk the old sermons in order. Authority and “obey those over you.” The sexual-obligation teaching. How a private marriage got preached as church doctrine, and how the congregation was trained to hear criticism of the pastor as criticism of God.

Charlotte Korn — What Mica Told Her Before April 27th

Mica Miller’s best friend Charlotte Korn sits down to go beyond Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife. What she witnessed inside that marriage. What Mica told her. And what she believes really happened the day Mica died. Charlotte was not a church acquaintance. She was one of the people Mica confided in while married to pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach. In Death of the Pastor’s Wife she described the rules, the phone leash, and the control she watched up close. This interview is the longer conversation: the friendship, the last talks, JP’s call after Mica was found, and the details that did not fit a three-episode cut. Mica Miller was found dead at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina, on April 27, 2024. The official ruling remains suicide. JP Miller has denied abusing her. He faces federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements. He has not been charged in her death. This podcast is Charlotte’s account, not a courtroom verdict.If you watched the Netflix documentary and felt Charlotte’s chapter ended too soon, this is the next sit-down.

Bruna Interview I Mica Miller’s Best Friend Goes Beyond Netflix

Mica Miller’s best friend Bruna Pabon sits down to go deeper than Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife. What Mica told her. What the documentary cut short. What she still cannot shake. Bruna was not a distant church acquaintance. She was one of the people Mica confided in while married to pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach. In Death of the Pastor’s Wife she described Mica’s fear that a suicide would be staged, and she alleged years of coercive control. This interview is the longer conversation: friendship inside that church, the months before April 27, 2024, and the details that did not fit a three-episode cut. Mica Miller was found dead at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina, on April 27, 2024. The official ruling remains suicide. JP Miller has denied abusing her. He faces federal charges of cyberstalking and making false statements. This podcast is Bruna’s account, not a courtroom verdict.If you watched the Netflix documentary and felt the story stopped too soon, this is the next sit-down.

• Transcript

Rich McHugh on JP Miller: The Banfield Interview That Changed This Case

I sit down with NewsNation’s Rich McHugh about his exclusive July 2024 Banfield interview with John-Paul Miller — and how that hour changed the direction of the Mica Miller story. Rich was the reporter who got JP on camera after months of silence. That sit-down put JP’s version on national television: lithium, “I saw it coming,” the apology letter, trackers, tires, and who he blamed. It also locked in a public record that every later story — including Netflix — has had to answer. In this conversation we go back to that interview: what Rich asked, what JP said, what looked different once the full record came out, and why that hour still sits at the center of this case.If you’ve followed this case since 2024, this is the reporter who put JP Miller on the record. Listen, then tell me in the comments: did that Banfield interview help JP, or did it box him in?

• Transcript

Mica Miller’s Stepdad Speaks for the First Time!

Mica Miller’s stepfather Michael Honeycutt sits down for his first ever interview after the death of Mica Miller. On April 27, 2024, 30-year-old worship leader Mica Miller was found dead at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina. Officials ruled her death a suicide. Her family and friends have never accepted that as the full story. Two days earlier she had served divorce papers on her estranged husband, former Solid Rock pastor John-Paul “JP” Miller. Netflix’s three-part series Death of the Pastor’s Wife, which premiered August 26, 2026, put that marriage, the police reports, the 911 calls, and the fight for answers back in front of a national audience. In this sit-down, Michael Honeycutt talks about the Mica he knew, what the family saw, and what still does not add up as JP Miller heads toward a federal trial in the October 2026 term on cyberstalking and false-statements to federal authorities. He has pleaded not guilty. He has not been charged in connection with Mica’s death.

• Transcript

Major Clues from Mica Miller's Attorney

Mica Miller’s divorce attorney Regina Ward says there is a bombshell in the April 27, 2024 Robeson County 911 call that online investigators still have not found. She will not name it until after JP Miller’s federal trial.Tonight we walk her statements from Criminally Obsessed and her interview with Anne Emerson. She says there's an overlooked clue in that 2:54 p.m. call, why she doubts JP Miller’s account of where he was the day Mica died, and why she says Mica buying a gun that same day looks like fear, not despair. Ward also says she spoke with Mica the day before her death, that “nothing adds up,” and that she has more than one unreleased recording of JP Miller calling her office after Mica was gone, trying to lock in his narrative. Official ruling remains suicide. JP Miller has not been charged in her death. His federal case is cyberstalking and false statements, set for the October 2026 term.Netflix’s three-part documentary Death of the Pastor’s Wife premiered August 26, 2026. Directed by Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro — the same team behind American Murder: Gabby Petito and Murdaugh Murders — it uses Mica’s journals, home video, church footage, and first-time interviews with the Francis family, friends, former Solid Rock members, and Regina Ward herself. The series traces the marriage, the alleged coercive control, the failed protective-order fight under South Carolina law, and the fight for answers after April 27th.

• Transcript

Mica Miller’s Past Attempts — What’s Actually True?

Did Mica Miller have prior suicide attempts — and what’s actually in the records?Robeson County ruled April 27, 2024 a suicide. The medical examiner’s file and hospital records cite a 2022 psychiatric hold on suicidal precautions, a later February 2024 hold, and a family-confirmed prior attempt. JP Miller has said she “struggled with suicide before,” needed lithium, and even gave church testimonies about it. Mica’s family and friends say that history was used against her — and that she told people she did not want to die, and feared a staged suicide. Tonight we separate documented records from pulpit claims.

• Transcript

Brittani Stapleton DEFENDS Husband After 20 Exploitation Counts – She Knew EVERYTHING

Brittani Stapleton (Gulf Coast Stapletons) publicly defends husband Josh after he pleaded guilty to 20 counts of child exploitation. She says she knew EVERYTHING before they dated and married in 2023 – here’s the full shocking story and why she still stands by him. Josh Stapleton, 39, was sentenced in July 2025 to 20 years (5 years prison + 15 years probation) after downloading explicit child material between 2018-2020. The Gulf Coast influencer couple built 80K+ TikTok followers posting perfect boating, fitness, and vacation content.In her viral TikTok defense video, Brittani claims: “Josh was absolutely upfront… there were no secrets.” She adds she’s a “good judge of character,” knew something was “off” before they dated, insists their life wasn’t fake, they’re “still happy,” and many friends with kids still support them because “they’ve personally witnessed Josh around their children and know there’s no issue.”

• Transcript

John-Paul and Mica Miller - The Complete Timeline - Decades of Terror

The FULL timeline of the John-Paul and Mica Miller case. From her whirlwind marriage to controversial pastor John-Paul Miller, years of alleged affairs, abuse, tracking devices, and her tragic death at Lumber River State Park… to his 2025 federal indictment. Police reports, court filing, 911 calls, and every bombshell all in one video. Did Mica Miller take her own life? Or was the Pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, SC up to something far more sinister? This is the most complete public timeline available, compiled from court documents, police reports, affidavits, and eyewitness accounts. If you want the raw truth behind one of the most disturbing pastor scandals in recent years, listen until the end.

• Transcript