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Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Ray William Johnson

The Official Podcast of Ray William Johnson, storyteller and comedian. Tune in for the best stories of True Crime and Pop Culture.

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00:08:21

The Founder of Aldi Got Kidnapped - The Theo Albrecht...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/08

In November 1971, Theo Albrecht, the reclusive German billionaire co-founder of Aldi supermarkets, was kidnapped at gunpoint outside his company’s headquarters in Essen, Germany, by Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Krüzen, a pair of small-time criminals seeking a massive ransom. The kidnappers held him for 17 days.

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00:08:47

He Thinks He's Batman - The Matthew Muller Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Matthew Muller was a former Marine and Harvard-educated lawyer whose life spiraled into a series of bizarre crimes. In 2015, he broke into the Vallejo, California home of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, abducting Denise and demanding ransom in what police initially dismissed as a hoax inspired by Gone Girl. Muller, who suffered from mental illness and believed he was a kind of vigilante, held Huskins captive for two days before releasing her.

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00:08:36

He Killed His Best Friend - The Kwang Chol Joy Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/06

Kwang Chol Joy was a California man who became infatuated with 37-year-old Maribel Ramos, an Army veteran and college student who had taken him in as a roommate in her Orange County apartment. Over time, his obsession with her deepened, but she rejected his romantic advances and eventually asked him to move out. In May 2013, shortly after a heated argument about rent, Maribel disappeared. Weeks later, her remains were discovered in a remote canyon

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00:09:03

America's Worst Con Man - The Barry Minkow Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/05

Barry Minkow was a teenage entrepreneur who founded the carpet-cleaning company ZZZZ Best in the 1980s and became a Wall Street sensation- until it was revealed to be one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of its time. Minkow fabricated fake restoration projects and used forged documents to trick investors, inflating his company’s value to over $200 million before it collapsed in 1987.

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00:09:01

The Modern Day Serial Killer - The Israel Keyes Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/04

Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, burglar, and arsonist who operated from 2001 until his arrest in 2012. A meticulous and methodical predator, he murdered at least eleven people across the United States, hiding “kill kits” containing weapons and supplies years in advance to use during his crimes.

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00:08:40

This Genius Engineer is in BIG Trouble - The John...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/03

John DeLorean was a trailblazing automobile executive who rose to prominence at General Motors by engineering iconic muscle cars like the Pontiac GTO and Firebird. In 1975 he struck out on his own and founded the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), aiming to build a futuristic sports car—the DMC-12 with gull-wing doors and stainless steel panels. Unfortunately, despite early hype, DMC’s production launch in 1981 suffered cost overruns, delays, and poor market timing, and by 1982 the company was insolvent

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00:09:29

He Stole Billions - The Bernie Madoff Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/02

Bernie Madoff was an American financier who ran what is widely regarded as the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors of billions of dollars by paying returns to earlier investors with funds from newer ones rather than from legitimate profits.

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00:08:00

Chuck E. Cheese Got Arrested - The Jermell Jones Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/02

Jermell Jones is a 41-year-old Florida man who was arrested in July 2025 while working as the mascot for Chuck E. Cheese in Tallahassee. He was taken into custody in full costume during a children’s birthday party after surveillance linked him to using a woman’s child-support debit card to make fraudulent charges.

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00:08:30

This Nurse Murdered Her Patients - The Elizabeth...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/23

Elizabeth Wettlaufer is a Canadian former registered nurse who confessed to murdering eight elderly patients and attempting to kill six others between 2007 and 2016 in long-term care homes in southwestern Ontario.

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00:09:00

He Made The Biggest Marketing Fail In History - The...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/22

Todd Davis, the co-founder and CEO of LifeLock, became famous in 2007 for publicly displaying his real Social Security number in ads to prove confidence in his company’s identity-theft protection service. But the stunt backfired when his identity was stolen at least a dozen times, exposing flaws in LifeLock’s system.

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00:08:41

This Youtuber Killed 70 People - The Pedro Rodriguez...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/21

Pedro Rodrigues Filho was a Brazilian serial killer who claimed to have murdered more than 100 people- most of them other criminals.

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00:08:57

He Killed So Many People - The Unabomber / Ted...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a Harvard-educated mathematician who abandoned academia to live in a remote Montana cabin, and between 1978 and 1995 carried out a nationwide bombing spree targeting universities, airlines and individuals he believed were advancing technology.

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00:08:57

He's a Psychopath - The Joran van der Sloot Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/19

Joran van der Sloot whose criminal history includes the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru- he was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison for the crime. He first came to international attention as the prime suspect in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.

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00:08:08

This Alpha Influencer Is In Prison Now - The Jeremiah...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/18

Jeremiah “The Bull” Evans was a Utah-based entrepreneur who, between July 2019 and July 2022, ran a fraudulent investment scheme through his company Alpha Influence, LLC, claiming to sell clients stakes in automated stores.

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00:08:40

This Spoiled Rich Girl Killed Her Own Mom - The...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Heather Mack is an American woman convicted of conspiring to murder her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, during a 2014 vacation in Bali. Heather had secretly used her mother’s credit card to fly her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, to Bali, and the two exchanged messages plotting her mother’s death.

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00:08:39

He Pretended To Be In High School - The James Hogue...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/16

James Hogue is an American impostor and career con man best known for infiltrating elite institutions by assuming false identities.

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00:08:27

She Scammed $400,000,000 - The Gina Champion-Cain Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/14

Gina Champion-Cain is a former San Diego business executive who orchestrated what is considered one of the largest woman-led Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. Beginning around 2012, she raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors by promising to use their funds to make high-interest loans to individuals seeking California liquor licenses—funds she claimed would be held in escrow. In reality, she diverted the money to prop up her struggling businesses, to pay returns to earlier investors, and

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00:08:25

He's a FAKE Secret Agent - The Mark Acklom Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Mark Acklom is an English conman and fraudster who for decades used false identities and elaborate scams to swindle large sums from victims, often posing as a wealthy Swiss banker or even an MI6 agent.

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00:08:21

He Lived With a Dead Body For 18 Months - The James...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/12

James and Suzanne Agnew, a couple from Lakewood, Colorado, were arrested in July 2025 after authorities discovered the decomposed body of 64-year-old James O'Neill in their home. The Agnews allegedly kept O'Neill's body under a deflated air mattress for nearly 18 months following his death.

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00:08:50

He Scammed The Mormon Church - The Mark Hofmann Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/10/11

Mark Hofmann is a former document dealer and convicted murderer from Salt Lake City, Utah, known for perpetrating one of the most elaborate forgery schemes in American history. In the early 1980s, Hofmann created and sold numerous forged documents related to the history of the Latter-day Saint (LDS) movement

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