John Wayne Hearn - 448
The Generation Why Podcast
Wondery
4.6 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Gainesville, Florida. When John Wayne Hearn posted an ad in Soldier of Fortune Magazine, he was hoping to get a few jobs doing private bodyguard work. He was shocked by the bombardment of calls he received, most of them from people seeking to hire him to murder their enemies, move drugs, or complete other illegal jobs. John ignored them all, until a woman named Debra called him, asking to help intimidate a brother in law as part of a child custody battle. John took the job, and became involved in not one, but three elaborate murder for hire plots, all originating from one source; a woman he loved named Debra Banister.
Get extra episodes from Generation Why at: patreon.com/generationwhy
Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. https://wondery.app.link/generationwhy.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app to listen ad-free from Wondry. |
| 0:30.0 | How are you doing tonight, Aaron? |
| 0:44.1 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:45.5 | How are you doing? |
| 0:46.5 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:47.7 | I heard about a weird video online where a teenager asked for help. |
| 0:53.8 | What's going on with that? |
| 0:55.1 | Right. |
| 0:56.1 | I was a senior-year-old girl that was, I guess, you could say, being driven in a car by a |
| 1:01.8 | 61-year-old man and she was asking for help. |
| 1:06.8 | Now, you know if you're in a vehicle and you don't want to let the person who, I would say |
| 1:12.9 | in this case, have ducted you to know you're trying to get help, the best thing you can do |
| 1:17.6 | is signal for help. |
| 1:19.6 | It just so happens that there's been a signal that TikTok users have been spreading around |
| 1:25.8 | the violence at home signal for help. |
| 1:27.9 | If you look this up on TikTok, it's basically you hold up your hand with your thumb across |
| 1:33.2 | your palm and all four fingers up and then you lower them over the thumb. |
| 1:38.8 | You trap the thumb. |
| 1:40.2 | That means you need help. |
| 1:42.7 | This man is driving and this girl had gone missing from North Carolina and there was |
| 1:48.3 | a person driving along in Laurel County, Kentucky who noticed this teenager doing the signal |
| 1:55.4 | for help and because they had seen this gesture on TikTok, they knew just what it meant |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.