Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

In 2016, Jemma Lilley and her housemate Trudi Lenon murdered 18-year-old autistic teenager Aaron Pajich in Perth, Australia, to fulfill Lilley’s lifelong serial-killer obsession and "bucket list" desire to kill someone before turning 25.

José Vigoa is a Cuban-born, former Soviet-trained commando who orchestrated one of the most violent and audacious crime sprees in Las Vegas history.After arriving in Sin City in the 1980s and serving a federal prison sentence for running a cocaine ring, Vigoa recruited a tightly disciplined crew—including his two brothers-in-law—to execute military-style heists between 1998 and 2000. 

In 2005, Tanya Jaime Nelson traveled from North Carolina to Westminster, California, with her accomplice, Phillipe Zamora, to murder her longtime psychic and friend, Ha "Jade" Smith, and Smith's 23-year-old daughter, Anita Vo.

In 2014, Heather Cho (Cho Hyun-ah), a vice president of Korean Air and daughter of the airline's chairman, sparked an international scandal known as the "nut rage" incident aboard a flight departing New York's JFK Airport.

Hannah Sabata is a Nebraska woman who gained internet notoriety in late 2012 after robbing a bank, stealing a car, and immediately uploading a YouTube video bragging about the crimes.

Susan Lorincz is a Florida woman currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for the June 2, 2023, fatal shooting of her neighbor, Ajike "A.J."Owens. The incident, which took place in Ocala, Florida, began as a neighborhood dispute and escalated when Lorincz shot Owens through a closed, locked front door.

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Mahek Bukhari is a high-profile British TikTok influencer who, alongside her mother Ansreen Bukhari, orchestrated a fatal ambush that resulted in a double murder.

Suge Knight, the notorious co-founder of Death Row Records, is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility following a fatal 2015 hit-and-run.The incident occurred in January 2015 outside a Compton burger stand, where Knight got into an altercation with a technical advisor for the film Straight Outta Compton, Cle "Bone" Sloan. Surveillance footage captured Knight backing his pickup truck into Sloan, injuring him, before driving forward and running over businessman Terry Carter, who died from his injuries.

In 2005, Washington, D.C. administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson Jr. dropped off a pair of suit trousers for alteration at Custom Cleaners, a small neighborhood business owned by South Korean immigrants Soo and Jin Chung. [1, 2]When the cleaners misplaced the pants—and later presented a pair that Pearson vehemently insisted was not his—the dispute rapidly escalated into a notorious symbol of frivolous litigation. Acting as his own attorney, Pearson filed a massive civil lawsuit under D.C. consumer protection laws, pointing to the storefront's "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service" signs to demand a staggering $54 million