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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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This Crazy Man Shot Up a Walmart - The Jerad Miller and Amanda Miller Story Aug 15, 2025

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Jerad and Amanda Miller were a married couple from Indiana who embraced extreme anti-government and anti-law enforcement views, often posting conspiracy-laden, anti-police rhetoric online. After moving to Las Vegas in 2014, the pair’s hostility toward authority escalated into violence on June 8 of that year, when they ambushed two Las Vegas police officers while the officers were eating lunch, killing them both. The Millers fled to a nearby Walmart, where they shot and killed a civilian who tried to intervene

This Pop Star Is In Prison Now - The Tom Girardi / Erika Jayne Story Aug 14, 2025

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Tom Girardi, a once-celebrated Los Angeles trial attorney famous for the Erin Brockovich case, and his wife, reality TV star Erika Jayne of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, became embroiled in a massive legal scandal starting in 2020. Girardi was accused of embezzling millions of dollars in settlement funds from vulnerable clients

She Killed Her Own Hitman - The Susan Kuhnhausen Story Aug 13, 2025

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Susan Kuhnhausen, a 51-year-old ER nurse in Portland, Oregon, survived a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by her estranged husband. Coming home from work one evening, she was attacked by Edward Haffey, a man armed with a hammer who had broken into her house.

This Flight Got Hijacked - The Hijacking of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 Aug 11, 2025

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked on November 23, 1996, by three Ethiopian men seeking asylum in Australia. Shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, the hijackers—armed with an axe and a fire extinguisher—stormed the cockpit and demanded the Boeing 767 fly to Australia, despite the captain warning they didn’t have enough fuel. Forced to keep flying, the aircraft eventually ran out of fuel over the Indian Ocean. The pilots attempted an emergency ditching near the Comoros Islands, but the plane struck the water at high speed, breaking apart.

The Cop That Killed Other Cops - The Christopher Dorner story Aug 09, 2025

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Christopher Dorner, a former LAPD officer and U.S. Navy reservist, launched a violent ten‑day revenge campaign in February 2013 after being terminated—he claimed for exposing misconduct within the department

These Insane Women Ran Over Homeless Guys - The Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt Story Aug 08, 2025

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In 2008, Helen Golay, then 77, alongside her accomplice Olga Rutterschmidt, 75—two seemingly benign elderly women residing in California—were convicted of orchestrating the staged hit-and-run murders of two homeless men.

This Psycho Pilot Tries To Crash His Own Plane - The Auburn Calloway Story Aug 07, 2025

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Auburn Calloway, a disgruntled FedEx flight engineer facing imminent dismissal over falsified flight hours, attempted a shocking act of disguising a hijacking as an accident. Smuggling hammers, a speargun, and a guitar case aboard as a deadhead passenger, Calloway planned to murder the cockpit crew mid-flight, crash the DC‑10, and ensure his family cashed in on his life insurance.

The Man Who Murdered Jeffrey Dahmer - The Christopher Scarver Story Aug 06, 2025

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The story of Christopher Scarver, the man who murdered Jeffrey Dahmer.

He's Faking His Cancer - The Glenn Rycroft story Aug 04, 2025

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Glenn Rycroft—a former British Airways steward from Salford and a prolific con artist—spent years fooling family, friends, and co-workers into donating money by fabricating a terminal brain tumor, shaving his head, faking seizures, and even using fake medical documents to support his lies

He Was Kidnapped and Forced To Make North Korean Action Movies - The Shin Sang-ok Story Aug 02, 2025

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Shin Sang‑ok, once hailed as the “Prince of Korean Cinema” for directing nearly 80 films in South Korea’s golden age, was kidnapped in 1978—along with his actress ex-wife Choi Eun‑hee—on the personal orders of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il, who sought to elevate the country’s movie industry by forcing them to create internationally acclaimed propaganda films

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