Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Mother-and-daughter duo Marsha Allen and Ashley Jones orchestrated the "Root Beer Float Murder" in Freetown, Indiana, poisoning Marsha’s 52-year-old husband, Harold "Peanut" Allen, with an antifreeze-laced treat to collect his life insurance policy. Although Harold's death was initially misclassified as a natural heart condition, the plot imploded nine months later when Marsha stopped paying Ashley her monthly allowance. In retaliation, Ashley masterminded a burglary of her mother's home using her best friend, Steven White, who was quickly caught on security footage and defected by exposing the murder plot to police.

Jamison Bachman, who became widely known as the "Worst Roommate Ever," was a serial squatter and con artist who terrorized roommates across the United States for over a decade. A charismatic and legally savvy man with a law degree, Bachman would use his deep knowledge of housing laws to systematically take over apartments, refuse to pay rent, and aggressively manipulate or evict the actual leaseholders.

Cheung Tze-keung, nicknamed "Big Spender," was a notorious 1990s Hong Kong gangster who orchestrated massive heists and high-profile abductions, most famously kidnapping Victor Li, the son of billionaire Li Ka-shing, for a record billion dollar ransom.

Aurora Phelps is a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen who orchestrated a deadly, international romance scam by luring, drugging, and robbing older men she met on online dating applications.

Pastor David Love, the married pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Independence, Missouri, engaged in a decade-long affair with a parishioner, Teresa Stone. In 2010, he Love shot and killed Teresa's husband, Randy Stone, inside his insurance office.