Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Katherine Kealoha, a former high-ranking deputy prosecutor in Honolulu, was the central figure in Hawaii's largest public corruption scandal. Together with her husband, then-Police Chief Louis Kealoha, she orchestrated an elaborate scheme to maintain a lavish lifestyle by defrauding her own family and financial institutions. Her downfall began when she conned her elderly grandmother into a reverse mortgage and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund luxury car payments, high-end concert tickets, and an expensive brunch for her husband’s induction. When her uncle, Gerard Puana, sued her for this financial abuse, the Kealohas abused their power by using a specialized police unit to frame him for stealing their mailbox in an attempt to discredit him.

Jesse Kempson is a New Zealand man who became the center of a major international criminal case following the 2018 murder of 21-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane in Auckland. After meeting Millane on the dating app Tinder, Kempson strangled her in his hotel room and subsequently attempted to hide her body in a suitcase, which he buried in a shallow grave in the Waitākere Ranges.

The 1994 Tonya Harding scandal involved a conspiracy to break the leg of rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, orchestrated by Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly to ensure Harding’s path to Olympic gold. While the January attack failed to break the leg, it caused a massive media sensation. Though Harding pleaded guilty only to hindering the prosecution after the fact, the scandal resulted in a lifetime ban from U.S. Figure Skating and an eighth-place finish at the 1994 Olympics, forever defining her career as one of the most bizarre in sports history.

Tiger Woods 2009 cheating scandal began with a tabloid report of an affair with nightclub manager Rachel Uchitel, which escalated into a global media frenzy after Woods crashed his SUV into a tree outside his home. Following the crash, dozens of women came forward claiming to have had affairs with the golfer, shattering his carefully maintained clean image.

21-year-old Jordan Marie Shaver shot and killed 49-year-old Brian Barton Geddes in his Garden City, Idaho, home after he had allowed her to stay with him. After the shooting, Shaver wrapped Geddes’ body in a comforter and hidden it in the crawlspace beneath his house. For nearly three weeks, she lived in the home, drove his cars, spent his money, and used his cell phone to send text messages to his family to cover up his disappearance.