Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

In 2026, former music pastor and American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the aggravated murder of his 37-year-old wife, Ashley Flynn.

A True Story Compilation of entitled teens who think they can get away with murder

Joel Guy Jr. committed the gruesome premeditated murders of his parents, Joel Guy Sr. and Lisa Guy, at their home in Knoxville, Tennessee. Motivated by financial greed after his parents planned to cut off his lifelong financial support

Sabrina Limon and her firefighter lover, Jonathan Hearn, conspired to murder her husband, railroad worker Robert Limon. Although Sabrina and Robert had been in an open marriage, Sabrina kept her intense relationship with the younger Hearn a secret.

Carl Gugasian is known as "The Friday Night Bank Robber" and is widely considered the most prolific bank robber in U.S. history. Over a 30-year criminal career, he meticulously planned and executed more than 50 bank robberies, stealing more than $2 million. 

In 2018, Jake Thomas Patterson committed a highly publicized double murder and abduction when he broke into a home in Barron, Wisconsin, and fatally shot James and Denise Closs. And then kidnapped Jayme Closs.

Anthony David Flores , a former Fresno hair salon owner and grifter, orchestrating a malicious fraud scheme alongside his then-girlfriend, actress Anna Rene Moore, that targeted Dr. Mark Sawusch, a wealthy Malibu ophthalmologist suffering from severe bipolar disorder.

In 2010, debt-ridden California community theater actor  Daniel Wozniak  executed a gruesome double-murder plot to steal $62,000 in combat savings from his neighbor, 26-year-old Army veteran  Samuel Herr , to finance his own upcoming wedding and honeymoon.

A Compilation of the creepiest true stories we've covered

Diane Staudte is a Springfield, Missouri woman who was convicted of first-degree murder for  fatally poisoning her husband and son with antifreeze . Alongside her favorite daughter, Rachel Staudte, she orchestrated what became widely known as the  "Antifreeze Murders,"  a series of planned family poisonings carried out between 2012 and 2013.

Ghyslain Raza , famously known as the Star Wars Kid , became one of the internet's very first viral phenomena after a private video he recorded in 2002 was leaked online without his consent.

Joyce McKinney is a former Miss Wyoming who became an international media sensation in 1977 after allegedly abducting Kirk Anderson, an American Mormon missionary, in England.

In 1972, American novelist Clifford Irving orchestrated one of the most audacious literary frauds of the 20th century by concocting a completely fabricated autobiography of the notoriously reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.

Ippei Mizuhara, the longtime personal interpreter and close friend of Major League Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, was at the center of a massive sports gambling and theft scandal.

In 2022, 23-year-old Juan Baron strangled his 73-year-old lover, Gary Ruby, inside Ruby's multimillion-dollar mansion in Honolulu's exclusive Hawaii Loa Ridge neighborhood.

A Ray William Johnson True Story compilation of people who went viral getting in trouble with the law.

In 1994, part-time handyman Darryl Kuehl shot and killed 53-year-old retired schoolteacher Paul Gruber at his home near Muskrat Lake in Sandpoint, Idaho.

In 2007, former NFL star O.J. Simpson led a group of armed men into a room at the Palace Station hotel-casino in Las Vegas to confront sports memorabilia dealers Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong. Simpson claimed he was merely reclaiming personal mementos, family photos, and sports artifacts that had been stolen from him years prior. However, because members of his group carried firearms and used...

John Arthur Getreu  was an American serial killer whose decades-long evasion of justice finally ended through modern  investigative genetic genealogy .

Tyler Barriss is a California man who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after orchestrating a deadly December 2017 swatting hoax that resulted in police killing an innocent man.

Monica Sementilli masterminded the 2017 murder of her husband, Fabio Sementilli, a prominent Los Angeles celebrity hairstylist and beauty company executive. Monica conspired with her secret lover, Robert Louis Baker, to kill her husband in order to collect on a life insurance policy.

Hossein Nayeri and Kyle Handley orchestrated a 2012 plot to abduct and extort a Newport Beach medical marijuana dispensary owner, mistakenly believing the victim had buried 1 million dollars in cash in the Mojave Desert.

A Ray William Johnson True Story compilation of people committing murder for petty and ridiculous reasons

Fetty Wap rocketed to global superstardom in 2015 when his breakout melodic hip-hop anthem "Trap Queen" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and achieved diamond certification. Despite pioneering a distinct, chart-topping sound in the mid-2010s, his career faced a severe derailment following a 2021 arrest for federal drug conspiracy charges.

Mary Anne Oliver-Snow, a popular TikTok cosplay influencer known online as "Yandere Freak," accidentally shot and killed her friend Helen Hastings on in 2021, in Houston, Texas.