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Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

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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He's Youtube's Biggest Creep - The Elliot Rodger Story Dec 19, 2025

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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 elaborate narrative framing himself as a victim of injustice. He expressed these views in a lengthy written manifesto and a series of videos that revealed both deep-seated misogyny and deteriorating mental stability.

She Was Hypnotized Into a Crime? - The Heather Tallchief Story Dec 18, 2025

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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.

Murder Over Chicken Wings - The Deveius Weather Story Dec 17, 2025

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

This Scammer Got Exposed By a Youtuber Dec 16, 2025

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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.

Ashton Kutcher's Date Was Murdered - The Michael Gargiulo Story Dec 15, 2025

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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 that, he murdered Santa Monica resident Maria Bruno with the same frenzied knife attack style.

The Dirty Cult Killer - The Pazuzu Algarad Story Dec 13, 2025

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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.

This Reality TV Producer Killed Someone - The Jean-Claude and Hilde Story Dec 12, 2025

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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.

She Faked Having Cancer - The Jenny Cataldo Story Dec 11, 2025

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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.

She Took Everything From Her Boyfriend - The Sabrina Taylor Story Dec 10, 2025

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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 spending the cash on travel, shopping, and luxury items.

This Fake Cop Finally Got Arrested - The Michael Scaletta-Teates Story Dec 09, 2025

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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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