Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

00:08:02

He's The Worst Hitman In History - The Joe Rosebrook...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/03

The Joe Rosebrook case centers on a long-simmering grudge, a murder-for-hire plot, and a catastrophic case of mistaken identity that went unsolved for nearly a decade. Rosebrook, a small-time Ohio fraudster and chop-shop operator with a habit of retaliating against people he believed had crossed him, sought revenge against a man named Daniel E. Ott- someone he blamed for exposing one of his earlier scams. The murder contract passed through several intermediaries until it reached Chad Testerman, who

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00:08:29

She's Pretending to be 14 - The Samantha Azzopardi Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/01

Samantha Azzopardi is an Australian serial con artist whose crimes span more than a decade and multiple countries, built almost entirely on elaborate false identities.

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00:08:37

The Man Who Kiled Michael Jackson - The Dr. Conrad...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/29

In 2009, Michael Jackson died of an overdose at his Los Angeles home. A powerful anesthetic propofol had been administered by his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. In a highly publicized 2011 trial, Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

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00:08:40

This Stranger Things Star Has a Dark Past - The...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/28

Actress Winona Ryder was caught stealing more than $5,000 worth of designer clothing and accessories from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Security detained her after observing her cutting sensor tags and walking out with the merchandise, leading to her high-profile arrest and a media frenzy that dominated early-2000s pop culture.

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00:08:09

She's a Real Life Vampire - The Daniel and Manuela...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/27

In July 2001, German couple Daniel and Manuela Ruda- deeply involved in Satanic and vampire-themed beliefs- lured their friend, 33-year-old Frank Hackert, to their apartment in Witten and brutally murdered him in what they described as a ritual killing. Manuela had filed her teeth into fangs and slept in a coffin, and Daniel claimed he’d received a vision of the number 6667, which he believed meant they should marry on June 6 and kill themselves on July 6 after offering a human sacrifice to

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00:07:59

The Girl Who Was Hit By a Train - The Yareni...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/26

Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was involved in a reported road-rage incident in Weld County, Colorado, on September 16, 2022, after a man called 911 claiming she tailgated him and pointed a firearm. Police pulled her over near Platteville, where officers from two departments handcuffed her and placed her in the back of a patrol SUV that one officer had parked directly on railroad tracks. While officers searched her truck, a freight train approached; body-cam video shows Yareni screaming for help moments

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00:08:05

This Postman Went Insane - The Devan Schreiner Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/25

Devan Schreiner, a former USPS worker from Longmont, Colorado, was locked in a turbulent custody battle with her ex-boyfriend, postal carrier Jason Schaefer, the father of their young son. Their relationship had soured after years of conflict, and shortly before the murder she was fired from the post office following an undisclosed “incident.” Prosecutors said Schreiner became enraged when Jason sought increased custody, and on October 13, 2021, she ambushed him on his mail route, shooting him as he

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00:08:06

The World's Craziest Diamond Heist - The Leonardo...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/24

Leonardo Notarbartolo was the mastermind behind the 2003 Antwerp Diamond Heist, one of the most ingenious burglaries ever pulled off. Working with a crew of elite Italian thieves, he spent over a year posing as a diamond trader to gain access to the Antwerp Diamond Center, a building considered nearly impenetrable thanks to its multilayered security

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00:08:58

He Started Hundreds of Fires - The John Orr Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/22

John Orr was a respected Glendale, California fire captain and arson investigator who spent nearly a decade secretly setting the very fires he was supposed to prevent. Between 1984 and 1991, Orr ignited hundreds possibly thousands of fires.

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00:08:28

He's The Most Corrupt Cop in History - The Rafael...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/21

Rafael Pérez was an LAPD officer whose crimes detonated the largest police-corruption scandal in Los Angeles history. A member of the elite Rampart Division CRASH unit, Pérez spent years planting guns, framing suspects, falsifying reports, beating civilians, and even shooting unarmed people- including paralyzing 19-year-old Javier Ovando, then lying to send him to prison.

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00:08:29

The Worst Dad In History - The Ronnie O'Neal Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/20

Ronnie O’Neal III committed one of Florida’s most shocking family murders on March 18, 2018. His son miraculously survived, crawled out of the burning house, and later testified against his father in court.

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00:08:56

She Killed Both Her Husbands - The Velma Barfield Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/19

Velma Barfield was a North Carolina caretaker who became one of the most notorious female poisoners in U.S. history. Between 1971 and 1978, she quietly murdered multiple people in her orbit- beginning with her husband, Jennings Barfield, who died in a suspicious house fire while he slept, and later her own mother, along with an elderly couple she stole money from. Her final victim was her boyfriend, Stuart Taylor, whom she poisoned after he discovered she’d forged his checks.

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00:08:06

Trapped Underwater For 60 Hours - The Harrison Okene...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/18

The Nigerian cook Harrison Okene was using the bathroom on a tugboat when a massive wave capsized the vessel and sent it to the ocean floor about 100 feet down. Trapped in total darkness, surrounded by drowning crew members, Okene found a tiny pocket of trapped air inside a bathroom and laundry area. He survived nearly three days in that pitch-black bubble.

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00:08:34

The Craziest Ex Girlfriend - The Jodi Arias Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/17

Jodi Arias brutally murdered her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a charismatic Mormon salesman from Mesa, Arizona. The pair had met two years earlier at a business conference and quickly began a passionate but toxic relationship marked by jealousy, obsession, and sexual tension that clashed with Travis’s religious values. After he tried to end things and invited another woman on a Cancun trip, Arias drove from California to Arizona, where she stabbed him 27 times and shot him in the head.

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00:08:58

The Con Man Who Faked His Own Death - The Samuel...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/15

Samuel Israel III was a New York hedge fund manager who founded the Bayou Hedge Fund Group in 1996 and orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds of the early 2000s. After years of falsifying trading records and using a fake accounting firm to hide losses, Israel’s $300 million Ponzi scheme collapsed in 2005 when investors tried to withdraw their money. Facing charges of fraud and conspiracy, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In a bizarre twist, just before reporting to prison in 2008,

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00:08:21

She Scammed People with Magic Cheese? - The Madame Gi...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/14

Gilberte Van Erpe aka Madame Gil is a Belgian con artist who launched a fake health and cosmetics company called Crema in the early 2000s. Posing as the mystical “Madame Gil,” she convinced thousands of people- especially in Chile- to invest in a bogus line of “magic cheese” and other products that supposedly contained miraculous healing or cosmetic properties. Investors were promised huge profits from selling this special cheese, but the entire operation was a pyramid scheme.

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00:08:34

He Killed His Own Parents - The Bart Whitaker Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/13

In 2003, Thomas “Bart” Whitaker orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot against his own family in Sugar Land, Texas, in order to claim his inheritance. After luring his parents and brother home from a celebratory dinner, his friend Christopher Brashear ambushed them inside the house, killing Bart’s mother and brother and seriously wounding his father, Kent.

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00:08:49

He Tried To Kill The President? - The Kevin Curtis Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/12

Mississippi Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis was wrongly accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama, Senator Roger Wicker, and a local judge. Curtis had a history of posting online about an alleged hospital cover-up after he claimed to have discovered human body parts in 2001 while working as a janitor.

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00:08:14

This Creep Stalked His Own Wife - The Daniel Krug Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/11

In December 2023, 44-year-old Daniel Krug of Broomfield, Colorado murdered his wife, Kristil Krug, in the garage of their home after months of secretly tormenting her with fake messages from a made-up stalker he created using burner phones and multiple online identities. Posing as her ex-boyfriend Jack, Daniel sent harassing emails and photos to both himself and Kristil to convince her she was being watched, all while portraying himself as her protector.

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00:08:39

She Fell In Love With a Murderer and Helped Him...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/11/10

In 1994, Bobbi Parker, the wife of an Oklahoma prison deputy warden, vanished from the Oklahoma State Reformatory along with inmate Randolph Dial, a convicted murderer and artist who had been given unusual privileges due to his painting skills. For 11 years, the two lived under assumed identities on a remote chicken farm in Texas until their discovery in 2005.

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