Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Juliana Peres Magalhães, a Brazilian former au pair, was a central figure in a sensational 2023 double-murder case in Northern Virginia, where she participated in a plot with her employer and lover, Brendan Banfield, to kill his wife, Christine Banfield. The pair orchestrated an elaborate scheme using a fetish website to lure a stranger, Joseph Ryan, to the family's home, where they fatally shot and stabbed him and Christine while attempting to stage the scene as a home invasion.

Founded in 2004 by Nicole Daedone, OneTaste marketed itself as a revolutionary wellness company focused on OM to foster female empowerment and healing. While it initially gained mainstream acclaim through high-profile endorsements and a popular TED Talk, investigative reports in 2018 exposed a dark side, with former members alleging cult-like manipulation, financial exploitation, and psychological abuse.

Michael Mastromarino, a former oral surgeon whose license was revoked due to drug addiction, orchestrated a massive illegal body-snatching enterprise between 2001 and 2005 through his company, Biomedical Tissue Services. He conspired with several funeral directors to plunder tissue, bone, and organs from over 1,000 cadavers.

Wayne Couzens is a former Metropolitan Police officer who is serving a whole-life prison sentence for the kidnap and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard in March 2021.

Jessy Kurczewski was a Wisconsin woman convicted in 2023 for the first-degree intentional homicide of her friend, Lynn Hernan, for whom she had been acting as a caregiver. In October 2018, Kurczewski reported finding Hernan unresponsive in her home, initially suggesting the death was a result of a self-inflicted overdose. However, investigations and toxicology reports later determined that the death was a homicide caused by poisoning.