Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

In the early morning hours of September 14, 2019, a bizarre art heist took place at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, when a gang of thieves stole a fully functional, 18-karat solid gold toilet worth millions. Titled America, the 216-pound sculpture was created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan as a satirical commentary on excessive wealth and had only been on display for two days. Armed with sledgehammers and crowbars, the burglars rammed through the palace gates, smashed a window, and ripped the toilet directly out of the floorboards in just over five minutes.

John Birges Sr. was a landscaping contractor who masterminded the 1980 Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing in Stateline, Nevada, after racking up massive debts from a severe gambling addiction.

Jocelyn Kirsch was a Drexel University student who, alongside her University of Pennsylvania graduate boyfriend Edward Anderton, became infamously dubbed Philadelphia's "Bonnie and Clyde" of identity theft. From 2006 to 2007, the attractive, jet-setting couple executed a sophisticated fraud operation by using computer spyware, fake IDs, and stolen keys to burglarize the apartments and intercept the mail of their friends, neighbors, and co-workers.

A Ray William Johnson True Story compilation of crimes so shocking they became world famous.

In 1988, 24-year-old David Jackson vanished from Pembroke Pines, Florida, amidst a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife, Barbara Britton. The case remained a cold case for nearly two decades until Jackson's remains were discovered buried under a hotel parking lot, leading investigators to uncover a deadly plot orchestrated by Britton and her second husband, Michael Wolfe.