Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

David Vander Meer was a former Las Vegas youth pastor who was arrested in June 2026 and charged with murder and insurance fraud following the reopening of a 20-year-old cold case. Investigators alleged that Vander Meer intentionally shoved his 29-year-old wife, Bernadette, off the 1,200-foot Angels Landing trail at Zion National Park in August 2006.

Sanal Edamaruku is a prominent Indian author and president of the Indian Rationalist Association who spent decades debunking superstitious claims, famously making headlines in 2012 by exposing a "weeping" crucifix miracle at a Mumbai church as nothing more than capillary action from a leaky sewage pipe. Following this revelation, Catholic organizations filed multiple police complaints against him under India's strict blasphemy laws, forcing him to flee into self-imposed exile in Finland to escape potential imprisonment.

Jennifer Mee, known as the "Hiccup Girl" gained national fame in 2007 for a continuous, multi-week bout of hiccups. Years later in 2010, she orchestrated a robbery by luring an online acquaintance to a vacant home where her accomplices shot and killed him.

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.