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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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00:08:36

The Famous TV Host Who KIlled For Ratings - The...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/26

Wallace Souza was a former police officer turned TV host in Manaus who rose to fame in 1996 with his crime show Canal Livre, a sensational program that often arrived at murder scenes faster than law enforcement. As his popularity grew, he leveraged his tough-on-crime persona into political power, winning a seat as a state legislator. But in 2009, investigators uncovered evidence suggesting that Souza and his inner circle were operating a criminal organization that not only trafficked drugs but

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00:08:08

This Maniac Killed His CoWorker - The Tom Monfils Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/24

Tom Monfils’s death in 1992 at the James River paper mill in Green Bay became one of Wisconsin’s most controversial homicide cases. After Monfils made an anonymous call reporting a coworker for theft, the recorded tip was improperly released to the mill, exposing him and heightening already strained workplace tensions. He vanished during his shift, and the next day his body was found submerged in a pulp vat with a rope and weight attached. Investigators concluded he had been murdered in

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00:08:17

The Pro Athlete Turned Drug Smuggler - The Missy...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/23

Missy Giove rocketed to fame in the 1990s as one of the most aggressive and charismatic downhill mountain bikers in the world, blasting through the NORBA circuit and winning the 1994 UCI Downhill World Championship while turning herself into an extreme-sports icon with her punk-charged energy. After retiring from competition, her life swerved into scandal in 2009, when she was arrested in a federal operation for transporting hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs.

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00:09:32

He Stole Millions... From Netflix - The Carl Rinsch...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Carl Rinsch’s case centers on the collapse of his Netflix project White Horse aka Conquest, in which he was entrusted with a large production budget but allegedly misused significant portions of the funds. Instead of directing the money toward the series, Rinsch reportedly diverted millions into personal luxury purchases and high-risk options trading, losing vast sums before briefly recovering money through a lucky market swing. As production stalled and the show failed to materialize, Netflix and

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00:08:33

The Biggest Scandal in the NBA - The Tim Donaghy Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/20

Between 2005 and 2007, Tim Donaghy bet on games he officiated and supplied inside information to gamblers, exploiting injury reports, referee assignments, and his influence over foul calls. His actions triggered a federal investigation that exposed a network of illicit betting tied to organized crime.

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00:08:46

He's Youtube's Biggest Creep - The Elliot Rodger Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/19

Elliot Rodger’s case is a documented progression from early social withdrawal and untreated psychological distress to a lethal act of targeted violence in Isla Vista in 2014. Born in 1991, Rodger struggled for years with isolation, rigid self-focused thinking, and growing resentment toward peers, particularly women, whom he believed rejected him. After enrolling at Santa Barbara City College in 2011, these grievances intensified as he retreated further from meaningful relationships and built an

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00:08:32

She Was Hypnotized Into a Crime? - The Heather...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/18

Heather Tallchief’s life took a drastic turn in 1993, when she became involved with Roberto Solis, a recently paroled murderer whose influence drew her into one of the most successful armored-truck thefts in U.S. history. At age 21, while working as a Loomis driver in Las Vegas, she quietly drove away from her route with millions of dollars and disappeared into Europe with Solis.

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00:08:01

Murder Over Chicken Wings - The Deveius Weather Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/17

In 2022, Deveius Weathers allegedly shot and killed another man at a neighborhood barbecue, after an argument involving chicken wings.

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00:08:13

This Scammer Got Exposed By a Youtuber

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/16

Youtuber Pierogi aka Scammer Payback along with fellow Youtube channel Trilogy media work together to expose and dismantle a $65 million dollar mutinational fraud ring.

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00:08:31

Ashton Kutcher's Date Was Murdered - The Michael...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/15

Michael Gargiulo, the so-called Hollywood Ripper, was a predator who operated in plain sight, drifting through Los Angeles with the easy confidence of a man no one suspected. His violence began in 1993, when he murdered 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio in Illinois at just sixteen, then followed him west years later. In Hollywood, he befriended and fixated on 22-year-old fashion student Ashley Ellerin, stabbing her to death in 2001 the night she had a date planned with Ashton Kutcher. Four years after

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00:08:43

The Dirty Cult Killer - The Pazuzu Algarad Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/13

Pazuzu Algarad, born John Lawson, was a deeply disturbed man in Clemmons, North Carolina who reinvented himself as a self-styled demon and gathered vulnerable people into a chaotic, drug-soaked, filthy house where violence and decay festered unchecked. In 2009, he murdered Joshua Wetzler, leaving the body in his basement for weeks before burying it in a shallow grave in the backyard, and later that same year his girlfriend Amber Burch killed Tommy Welch, whose body was buried beside the first.

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00:08:43

This Reality TV Producer Killed Someone - The...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/12

Jean-Claude Lacote and Hilde Van Acker were a Belgian couple who became internationally notorious after the 1996 murder of British businessman Simon Dale, a crime they committed in Knokke-Heist before fleeing the country and vanishing for more than two decades. Skilled con artists, they slipped through Europe, the United States, South Africa, Brazil, Mauritius, and Ivory Coast while living under fake identities, running fraud schemes, and even raising a daughter on the run.

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00:08:22

She Faked Having Cancer - The Jenny Cataldo Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/11

Jenny Cataldo spun a long, emotional hoax by pretending she had terminal cancer, complete with shaved-head photos, fake medical stories, and tearful updates that pulled friends, coworkers, and strangers into her invented struggle. Over several years she accepted money, gifts, and donations from people who genuinely believed they were helping her survive, until inconsistencies in her claims triggered suspicion and investigators discovered there was no cancer diagnosis at all.

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00:08:39

She Took Everything From Her Boyfriend - The Sabrina...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/10

Sabrina Taylor spent years weaving a sympathy-soaked lie, pretending she had multiple sclerosis and a stack of other crises so she could drain more than half a million dollars from friends and online acquaintances who believed they were helping her stay alive, stay in school, or rescue family members who didn’t actually exist. Beginning around 2013, she told people she needed money for MS treatments, tuition, and emergency bailouts, even forging documents to keep the illusion afloat, all while

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00:08:05

This Fake Cop Finally Got Arrested - The Michael...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/09

In 2025, Michael Scaletta-Teates of Washington state goes to great lengths to pretend to be a police officer- outfitting his car with red and blue emergency lights, wearing a ballistic-style vest and badge, and appearing at crime scenes.

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00:08:33

The Con Man Who "Married" His Daughter - The Albert...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/08

Albert Johnson Walker was a Canadian financial adviser who stole over $3 million CAD from clients in the late 1980s, then fled Canada in 1990 with his teenage daughter Sheena to avoid prosecution. While living in England under false names, he manipulated and ultimately stole the identity of a British man named Ronald Platt, even convincing Platt to move to Canada, which left the identity available. When the real Platt returned to England in 1996 and threatened to expose him, Walker murdered him in

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00:08:24

This Woman is The Worst Person I've Ever Covered -...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/07

Pam Hupp is a Missouri woman at the center of one of the most notorious wrongful-conviction cases in the U.S. in 2011, after her close friend Betsy Faria was brutally stabbed to death, Hupp- who had secretly made herself the beneficiary of Betsy’s $150k life-insurance policy just days earlier- helped steer police toward Betsy’s husband Russ Faria, who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for nearly three years before being fully exonerated; when investigators began refocusing on Hupp in 2016, she

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00:08:37

The Diaper-Wearing Murdering Lawyer - The Andrew and...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/05

Andrew and Alecia Schmuhl’s case is one of the most shocking and bizarre crimes in recent Virginia history: after Alecia was fired from her law firm, she and her husband spiraled into desperation and rage, culminating on November 9, 2014, when Alecia drove Andrew- dressed in an adult diaper, latex gloves, and a fake badge- to the home of her former boss, Leo Fisher, in McLean. Posing as law enforcement, Andrew forced his way inside, tased and zip-tied Leo and his wife, Susan, then tortured, stabbed,

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00:08:12

He Killed Hundreds of People - The Timothy McVeigh Story

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/04

Timothy McVeigh was a Gulf War veteran whose growing hatred of the federal government- fueled by the Ruby Ridge standoff, the Waco siege, militia-movement ideology, and The Turner Diaries- led him to plan and execute the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

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00:08:54

He Scammed Millions of Dollars With Pigeons - The...

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast ·

2025/12/03

Apparently we need to get into the pigeon racing business 😳-Arlan Galbraith known as The Pigeon King, ran one of Canada’s strangest and most devastating Ponzi schemes, convincing hundreds of farmers across Canada and the U.S. to buy expensive breeding pigeons with promises that he would buy back the offspring at a guaranteed profit. Galbraith claimed he was building a massive pigeon-meat and racing-bird industry, but no such market existed, and the only money coming in was from new farmers joining

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