A marriage that looked steady from the outside and a death that raised more questions than it answered form the spine of Death of the Pastor's Wife, a 2026 true-crime documentary series built around the life and final months of Mica Miller.
What is Death of the Pastor's Wife about?
The series opens with the question that drives every episode: what really happened to Mica Miller? From there it works backward through her early promise, the relationship that turned corrosive behind closed doors, and the sequence of events surrounding her death that left family, friends and investigators with far more questions than a tidy explanation. Rather than settling on a single theory in its opening minutes, the documentary lets interviews, records and the people who knew her carry the account forward, piece by piece.
About the cast
The series is built around firsthand accounts connected to Mica Miller and John-Paul Miller, with directors Julia Willoughby Nason and Mike Gasparro shaping the material into a documentary account rather than a dramatized one. The people who appear are speaking about a real case, not performing roles. No actor is playing a role here; the series relies on the people connected to the case to speak in their own words, and on the directors to arrange those accounts into a coherent, evidence-led timeline rather than a scripted narrative.
Context & significance
Death of the Pastor's Wife belongs to the wave of true-crime documentary series that trace a single case across its full arc, from the ordinary details of a life to the aftermath that follows an unexplained death. Its structure favors patience over shock, laying out the record and the relationships around it rather than rushing to a conclusion, which is consistent with how the genre has evolved toward careful, source-driven storytelling.
Watching Death of the Pastor's Wife on Ktime
Death of the Pastor's Wife is available to stream on K-Time. A free account and login unlock the full series, presented through a Farsi-first interface built for Persian-speaking viewers wherever they are watching from.