Lust, Death, Insanity... And A Potato

Murder of David Johnson

November 12, 1987 / his home, Bagdad, Arizona

Victims

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 19 August 2022.

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The timeline

1. aged 18 months name withheld here father leaves the family and his mother immediately marries a severe alcoholicabout 0:26:57
2. age two a covered name suffers a broken collarbone, allegedly falling off a picnic table, and his mother does not keep his arm in a slingabout 0:31:46
3. age four covered name suffers a severe head injury running around a pool; his mother does not take him to a doctor and he is left with a dent in his foreheadabout 0:31:58
4. age five name withheld here is left responsible for his toddler brother while his mother worksabout 0:32:44
5. age seven a covered name mother tells him he is the man of the family nowabout 0:32:58
6. age 14 covered name starts using drugsabout 0:33:34
7. by 19 name withheld here is smoking weed every day and using heroin, cocaine, LSD and methabout 0:33:41
8. by 25 a covered name moves to San Francisco, becomes a heroin addict and contracts hepatitis Cabout 0:34:09
9. age 25 covered name marries Eloise, who is 18 and escaping an abusive homeabout 0:43:05
10. age 33 name withheld here meets his third wife, Fisher, then 19, who has never left Wickenburgabout 0:43:18
11. mid-1987 The pastor of the church in Prescott gives a covered name rides to and from church and feeds him; covered name is sleeping on the floor of an upholstery shop (Church in Prescott)about 0:42:30
12. January 1987 name withheld here and a covered name meet while working at a nursing home in Prescott; he tells her he is a doctor (Nursing home in Prescott)about 0:46:29
13. spring of 1987 David Johnson, 42, marries covered name Marie, 24, in Bagdadabout 0:10:36
14. April 1987 name withheld here and a covered name go to Michigan, live together and work at a nursing homeabout 0:47:16
15. October 1987 covered name returns to Bagdad; name withheld here goes to Prescott with his wife, and he and a covered name speak on the phone up to six times a dayabout 0:47:28
16. November 1, 1987 covered name starts asking name withheld here to kill her husband so they can spend the money and move to Phoenixabout 0:48:15
17. three days before the shooting a covered name forges a document making herself, rather than David's children, the beneficiary of a $52,000 life insurance policy through the copper companyabout 0:25:20
18. November 12, 1987 David Johnson is shot in the lower back and the chin with a .357 at about eleven at night coming home from the second shift (Johnson house)about 0:13:25
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