Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

• They Stole His Dead Body - The Gram Parsons story

  The story of Gram Parsons' body being stolen is one of rock 'n' roll’s most bizarre and legendary tales. After the influential country-rock musician died of a drug overdose in 1973 at the Joshua Tree Inn in California, his stepfather arranged to have his body flown to New Orleans for a traditional burial. However, Parsons had once told his friend and road manager, Phil Kaufman, that he wanted to be cremated in Joshua Tree if anything happened to him. To honor that wish, Kaufman stole Parsons' body from LAX in a borrowed hearse, drove it into the desert, and attempted to cremate it by setting it on fire at Cap Rock.

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• The Killer Politician - The Robert Telles story

  The Robert Telles story involves a shocking case of the unaliving of a journalist. Telles, a Clark County Public Administrator in Las Vegas, was arrested in September 2022 for the death of Jeff German, a veteran investigative reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. German had written a series of articles exposing misconduct and a toxic workplace environment in Telles’s office, which likely contributed to Telles losing re-election.

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• The Man Who Got Amnesia For 14 Years - The Jim McDonnell story

  ​The Jim McDonnell amnesia story is a remarkable real-life case of disappearance and rediscovery. In 1971, Jim McDonnell, a 50-year-old mail carrier from Larchmont, New York, vanished after a series of accidents that resulted in head injuries. He was declared legally dead in 1976. Fifteen years later, on Christmas Day 1985, McDonnell unexpectedly returned home, claiming that a recent head injury had restored his memory.

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• Greedy Woman Steals $53,000,000 From Her City - The Rita Crundwell story

  The Rita Crundwell story is one of the largest municipal fraud cases in U.S. history. As the longtime comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, Crundwell embezzled over $53 million from the small town over two decades, using the funds to finance a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars, jewelry, and one of the nation’s top quarter horse breeding operations. She kept the theft hidden by creating a fake bank account and manipulating city financial records, all while Dixon struggled with budget cuts and deficits.

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• Katy Perry Versus The Nuns

  Katy Perry nun story centers around a controversial real estate dispute involving the pop star, the Catholic Church, and a group of elderly nuns in Los Angeles. In 2015, Perry attempted to purchase a former convent for $14.5 million, with approval from the Archdiocese of L.A., but the nuns who had lived there objected, claiming they had the right to sell the property to someone else.

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