71: [Eric Johnson] This Isn't the End of His Story // Part 2

What Came Next

Broken Cycle Media

Documentary, Education, True Crime, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Content warning: mental illness, animal abuse, animal cruelty, violence, domestic violence, and murder.

As shared in Part 1 of his story, Eric Johnson is a security professional, author, co-victim of murder, and victim advocate from Michigan. He launched himself towards a career designed to protect and serve the safety of consumers at a very young age. However, his career in victim advocacy would begin after losing his father Bill and Bill’s beloved dog to domestic violence in 2021. What came next in terms of the legal system and in terms of his healing is a testament to Eric’s strength and fortitude, and the Broken cycle Media team is immensely grateful he was willing to share his time and perspective with us this week.

This episode is dedicated in loving memory of Bill Johnson.

Eric's Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/ericjauthor

Eric's Book, My Father's Story: The Murder of the Best Man I've Ever Known:
https://amzn.to/3K4z26P

Eric’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ericjauthor1

Mark Manson's Author Page:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mark-Manson/author/B00BIJOMOC

For a list of related non-profit organizations & resources, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources

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0:00.0	What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only.
0:04.5	Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering,
0:07.2	such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder.
0:13.7	I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor.
0:17.1	If you're in need of support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com
0:20.8	forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help.
0:26.3	Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media.
0:35.0	Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. As he shared in his experiences in part one, Eric Johnson is a security professional, author, co-victum of murder, and victim advocate
1:14.5	from Michigan. He launched himself towards a career designed to protect and serve the safety
1:21.1	of consumers at a very young age. However, his career in victim advocacy would begin after losing his father to domestic violence on St. Patrick's Day, 2021.
1:33.3	What came next in terms of the legal system and in terms of his healing is a testament to Eric's strength and fortitude,
1:41.3	and the Broken Cycle media team is immensely grateful.
1:45.3	He was willing to share his time and perspective with us this week.
1:54.2	We needed to have a mental health hearing to present all the evidence to the judge
1:57.9	so he could make a ruling on if she was mentally insane at the time
2:02.7	and if she could be held criminally liable. And that was almost two days straight in the courtroom.
2:11.0	The prosecutor, he was dealt with a real bad hand as far as his case. It was a slam dunk that we knew it was her, but all the other
2:19.7	mental health things that came into play, the prosecutor did a fantastic job laying it out like a
2:27.0	story. From the moment after she'd killed my dad, she drove to another town, naked covered in blood, and ended up seeing a girl who was, I believe,
2:40.6	in 11th grade at the time, dropping off a letter for her mom before school.
2:45.5	My dad's killer saw her there, drove up behind her.
2:49.7	The girl was like, oh, that's weird, and started driving.
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