Lavena Johnson

ep 321: Maryanne Measles. Today we’re sharing a special collaboration episode we recorded with Dr. Casey Jordan and Dr. Colleen Butler-Sweet of the podcast, Criminal Appeal. We discuss the murder of thirteen-year-old Maryanne Measles of New Milford, Connecticut. The case is deepl ...  Show more

Ep 320: A woman’s phone showed she ordered an Uber. The app claimed the trip never happened. Somewhere in between those two facts a murder forced an entire industry to change This is the Samantha Josephson story. Sources for Today's Episode: People.com Law and crime Medium.com Wi ...  Show more

Optimists have a tendency to see the best in people, sometimes to their own detriment. According to Healthline, an individual’s calling to fix other peoples’ problems is referred to by psychologists as a savior complex or white knight syndrome. A savior complex would explain the ...  Show more

One woman risked life and limb to escape the grips of a predator. Her goal was simply to make it home to her children alive. There was no way she could have known that ensuring her attacker was found would reveal so much more, and likely save other lives. In working with authorit ...  Show more

When an alternative medicine doctor was found bludgeoned to death in her Bonita Springs, Florida home in the summer of 2015, friends and neighbors worried a burglar was on the loose, looking for his next random victim. Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office told the publ ...  Show more

By the time Janteyl Johnson from Newark, Delaware, turned 15 years old in 2009, she knew what she wanted to do with her life. She was a driven young woman with the goals of becoming a hairstylist and salon owner. Soon after turning 15, Janteyl found out she was pregnant. This onl ...  Show more