Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

00:08:16

This Teen Ruined a Model's Life - The Katie Piper Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/21

Katie Piper is a British model and television presenter whose life changed dramatically in 2008 when she was the victim of a brutal acid attack orchestrated by her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch, who hired an accomplice to throw sulfuric acid in her face as she stood outside her London apartment. The attack left Piper with severe facial burns, blindness in one eye, and extensive injuries to her esophagus, requiring more than 40 surgeries and years of rehabilitation.

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00:08:22

Side-chick Murder's Her Man's Girlfriend - The Marni...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/20

Marni Yang was a former girlfriend of NFL safety Shaun Gayle who, in July 2007, murdered Gayle’s pregnant girlfriend, Rhoni Reuter, in her Deerfield, Illinois condo.

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00:08:31

Charlie Sheen Sent a Woman to Prison - The Heidi...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/19

Heidi Fleiss, dubbed the Hollywood Madam in the 1990s, became nationally infamous when federal investigators exposed her high-end prostitution ring catering to wealthy clients in Los Angeles, a scandal that erupted into pop-culture spectacle once actor Charlie Sheen publicly admitted he had been one of her customers.

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00:08:30

This Trans Woman Killed For Surgery - The Vonlee...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/17

Vonlee Nicole Titlow was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2000 death of her uncle, Donald Rogers, in Michigan after prosecutors said she helped her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, kill him.

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00:08:44

The Internet Destroyed Them - The Coldplay Kiss Cam...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/15

During a Coldplay concert when the stadium’s kiss cam landed on two attendees who very clearly did not want to be seen together, triggering an instant internet pile-on. As the camera lingered, the pair awkwardly recoiled, hid their faces, and appeared panicked rather than playful, which viewers quickly interpreted as evidence of an affair. Online sleuths soon identified the man as Andy Byron, the CEO of data company Astronomer, seated beside Kristin Cabot, the company’s head of HR, despite both

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00:08:35

Don't Date Him - The Daylon Pierce Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/14

Daylon Pierce became known for running a widespread online dating scam in which he used social media and dating apps to target women, often presenting himself as charming, emotionally invested, and sometimes falsely claiming stable careers or military ties to build trust quickly. After forming intense romantic relationships, Pierce would manufacture financial emergencies and persuade victims to send him money, gifts, or access to funds, only to disappear or cycle them into ongoing manipulation. The

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00:08:52

This Unpopular Teen Got Revenge - The Christina...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/13

Christina Paolilla is from Clear Lake, Texas, and was involved in a brutal double murder in 2003. Along with her boyfriend, Steven Spence, Paolilla carried out a home invasion that resulted in the execution-style killings of her childhood friends, Clara Harris’s relatives Josh and Alicia Moffatt, whom Paolilla had grown up with and once considered family.

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00:08:18

She Killed Her Famous Husband - The Lorenzen Wright...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/12

Lorenzen Wright, a former NBA center who played 13 seasons in the league, was found murdered in July 2010 after disappearing from Memphis, Tennessee, his body discovered in a wooded area riddled with multiple gunshot wounds. The case drew national attention due to Wright’s prominence and the disturbing revelation of a 911 call in which he appeared to be fleeing for his life. After years of stalled investigation and public pressure, prosecutors alleged that Wright’s wife, Sherra Wright-Robinson,

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00:08:30

She Killed Her Ex - The Ezra McCandless Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/10

Ezra McCandless, also known as Ezra McCandless Mitchell, was convicted for the 2018 murder of her former boyfriend, Alex Woodworth, in rural Wisconsin, a case that initially appeared to be a tragic act of self-defense but unraveled into a carefully staged homicide.

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00:09:11

This Religious Con Man is Leaving America To Start...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/09

Gerald Payne was the pastor and director of Greater Ministries International, a Tampa-based religious organization that operated in the 1990s as a massive Ponzi-style fraud cloaked in faith-healing rhetoric, promising believers that if they “gifted” money to the ministry they would receive double their money back in about 17 months through supposed divinely blessed investments in foreign currency, mines, and other ventures. The scheme pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars from tens of thousands

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00:08:34

He Terrorized an Entire City - The Mooninites Boston...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/08

In January 2007, a guerrilla marketing campaign for the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force triggered a widespread public panic in and around Boston when LED light boards depicting the show’s Mooninite characters were mistaken for explosive devices.

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00:09:04

This TikToker Has a Dark Past - The Sandra Beltran Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/07

Sandra Beltrán, known as La Reina del Pacífico, was a prominent Colombian drug trafficker who rose to power in the 1990s and early 2000s as a key intermediary between Colombian cartel and Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.

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00:08:37

The Cannibal Cop - The Gilberto Valle Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/06

Gilberto Valle, a New York City police officer nicknamed the “Cannibal Cop” by the media, was arrested in 2012 after investigators discovered his online chats and writings.

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00:09:02

This Killer Got Rich - The Mary Ellen Samuels Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/05

Mary Ellen Samuels was a California woman who orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot in 1988 to kill her estranged husband, Bob Samuels.

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00:08:15

He Killed His Own Mother - The Edmund Kemper Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/03

Edmund Kemper was a highly intelligent but profoundly disturbed killer whose violence grew out of years of psychological abuse and deep resentment toward his mother. After murdering his grandparents at fifteen and spending five years in a state psychiatric hospital, he was released as a “rehabilitated” young man and returned to Santa Cruz, where he began targeting female college students in 1972. Over the next year, he abducted and murdered six young women, carefully manipulating police and

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00:08:10

The Cop is in Prison Now - The Sheriff Jame Lujan Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2026/01/02

Sheriff James Lujan’s case centered on a pattern of compromised judgment and abuse of authority during his tenure as the elected sheriff of Taos County, New Mexico. Investigators found that Lujan repeatedly interfered in law-enforcement efforts involving Sage Hammer, a local fugitive, including warning him about police activity and attempting to shield him from arrest.

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00:09:17

The Worst Funeral Director of All Time - The David...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/31

David Sconce built what became the largest cremation business in the United States by turning his family’s mortuary operation into a factory of exploitation and deception, routinely cremating multiple bodies at once, mixing remains, returning fake ashes to grieving families, and harvesting organs and tissue without consent.

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00:08:19

This Teen Rapper in in Prison Now - The Tay-K Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/30

The case of Tay-K centers on Taymor McIntyre, a teenage rapper whose rising career was eclipsed by a violent spiral that began with his involvement in a 2016 home-invasion robbery that left 21-year-old Ethan Walker dead. While awaiting trial, McIntyre cut off his ankle monitor and fled, turning his run from the law into a combustible piece of internet lore as he recorded “The Race,” a song that unintentionally documented his own flight. During that period, he was linked to additional violent

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00:08:29

This Shady Politician is in Prison Now - The Sidney...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/29

Sidney Dorsey, once the elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, slid from power into infamy after a bitter 2000 election he lost to challenger Derwin Brown. Investigators later uncovered that Dorsey, desperate to keep control of the department and shield himself from internal corruption probes, orchestrated a murder plot targeting Brown before he could take office.

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00:08:05

The Russian Female Serial Killer - The Irina...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/27

Irina Gaidamachuk was a Russian serial killer who spent nearly a decade preying on elderly women across the Sverdlovsk region, posing as a social-services worker to slip into their apartments before bludgeoning them to death and stealing small amounts of cash to fuel her alcoholism. Her crimes stretched from 2002 to 2010 and baffled investigators, partly because police assumed the killer was a man.

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