Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Sharee Miller was convicted of second-degree murder and conspiracy in 2000 for orchestrating what became known as the internet’s first highly publicized murder trial. Living in Michigan with her husband, Bruce Miller, Sharee engaged in an intense online affair with a former Missouri police officer, Jerry Cassaday.

Dieter Dengler was a German-born U.S. Navy pilot who became one of the few American servicemen to successfully escape enemy captivity during the Vietnam War. After fulfilling his childhood dream of flying by immigrating to the United States and joining the Navy, Dengler's A-1 Skyraider was shot down over Laos in February 1966.

A True Story compilation of women who killed their partners

The Laverne Pavlinac story is a bizarre case of a false confession that derailed a murder investigation and allowed a serial killer to remain free. In 1990, following the murder of 23-year-old Taunja Bennett in Portland, Oregon, 57-year-old Pavlinac concocted a detailed lie to frame her abusive boyfriend, John Sosnovske, as a desperate way to get him out of her life. She eventually implicated herself as an accomplice, leading to both of them being convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1991, despite Pavlinac recanting her story at trial. Because police closed the case based on her fabrications, the real perpetrator—the notorious "Happy Face Killer" Keith Hunter Jesperson- went undetected and murdered at least seven more women over the next several years.

The 2004 Transylvania University book heist was an audacious, movie-inspired plot orchestrated by four affluent Kentucky college students- Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk, and Chas Allen- who attempted to steal over $5 million worth of rare books from the university's Special Collections Library.