Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Chris Latham, a former wealthy bank executive from Charleston, South Carolina, was convicted in 2014 for his involvement in a failed 2013 murder-for-hire plot against his estranged wife, Nancy Cannon. Motivated by a bitter divorce and a desire to avoid substantial alimony payments, Latham collaborated with his mistress and assistant, Wendy Moore, who orchestrated the scheme by hiring her ex-husband, Samuel Yenawine, and another accomplice, Aaron Wilkinson, to execute the hit.

George Trepal, a chemist and Mensa member, was convicted in 1991 for the murder of his neighbor, Peggy Carr, and the attempted murder of her family in Alturas, Florida.

Colleen Stan, famously known as the "Girl in the Box," was abducted at knifepoint in May 1977 by Cameron and Janice Hooker while hitchhiking. Held captive in a remote Red Bluff, CA home for seven years, she was often confined to a coffin-like wooden box beneath a waterbed.

Jeffrey Stenner, a former Connecticut bank vice president and restaurant owner, infamously orchestrated two high-profile armored car robberies in West Hartford, including a 1988 heist where he wore a Santa Claus. Fearing that his accomplice and getaway driver, Robert Schmidt, was talking too much and would expose their crimes to federal investigators, Stenner hired several men to murder him.

Maximilian Schmidt is a German cybercriminal who, at age 18, single-handedly ran a multi-million-euro international drug empire named "Shiny Flakes" from his childhood bedroom. Over 14 months, he sold roughly one ton of illegal narcotics worldwide using his website and standard postal services.