Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Jorge Landeros was a yoga and Spanish instructor who spun a web of romantic and financial manipulation around Sue Ann Marcum, a beloved accounting professor at American University. Over the course of their relationship, Landeros acted as a con man, mismanaging and draining Marcum's investment funds. Following an escalating dispute over the missing money, Landeros brutally beat Marcum with a liquor bottle and strangled her to death inside her Bethesda, Maryland home.

In 2026, in Citrus Heights, California, three girls were arrested and charged with felonies including aggravated arson and burglary after security cameras captured them throwing a lit firework through a window into an expectant couple’s newly prepared baby nursery, destroying the room just two weeks before the baby's due date.

Samantha Jo Petersen was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal vehicular homicide and operation for a September 2023 crash in Minnesota where she struck an Amish horse-drawn buggy while driving.

Brad Lee Davis is an Oklahoma man who gained national attention when he was convicted of killing his 58-year-old stepfather, Denver Lee St. Clair, during a drunken physical altercation in December 2013. Davis, a former U.S. Marine, claimed the fight began after St. Clair insulted Davis's mother. After knocking St. Clair unconscious, Davis pulled his stepfather's underwear waistband up over his back, head, and tightly around his neck in a severe variation of the prank known as an atomic wedgie.

Haleigh Morgan Knight is a Henderson, Nevada influencer and mother who defrauded close friends and family out of nearly 20 grand. Between June 2023 and April 2024, Knight posed as a luxury trip adviser for the Four Seasons hotel chain, collecting expensive trip "deposits" for fake vacations. When her victims began asking questions about the repeatedly canceled trips, Knight fabricated a terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis to deflect suspicion and evoke sympathy.