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Truer Crime

Michael Johnson / Tiger Mandingo

Truer Crime

Celisia Stanton

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the winter of 2013, Dylan King-Lemons went to the doctor with stomach pains. His diagnosis? HIV. A few months later, one of his former sexual partners, Michael Johnson, is arrested. But why? Today’s episode explores identity, crime, and our societal obsession with punishment. Please be aware that today’s episode contains references to anti-Black racism, homophobia, and incarceration. *Correction: In the episode we mentioned St. Charles, Missouri has a Black population of less than 2%. This was an error. The most recent U.S. Census data shows that St. Charles County, Missouri has Black or African American population of 5.3%. A full list of sources, resources mentioned, and photos related to the case are available in the show notes of today's episode, https://truercrimepodcast.com/michael-johnson/ If you like Truer Crime, leave us a review! It's a great way to support our work and helps other people find us! Keep up with us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @truercrimepod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, want to hear a PC Game Pass advert?

0:04.7

I'll take your silence as a yes.

0:06.6

Want you games on day one like Call of Duty Black Op 6 or Stalker 2?

0:10.5

I thought so.

0:11.8

How about unlocking all the League of Legends champions when you link your Riot Games account?

0:15.6

All for one low monthly price.

0:17.3

Well, guess what?

0:18.2

We got you.

0:19.5

Learn more at Xbox.com slash PC game pass. Stalker to

0:22.6

available November 20th, 2024. Game catalog varies by region and overtime. And yeah, that's the

0:27.9

end of the script. Hi, friends. Before we jump into today's story, I just want to give you a quick

0:33.7

update about some bonus content that I totally forgot to mention in last week's episode. So we had this episode last week about Tulsa Race Massacre, and if you listen to it,

0:42.5

you may remember that I mentioned really briefly that enslaved black people actually walked

0:47.2

alongside native people on the Trail of Tears. And when I found this out, this was something that

0:52.1

really surprised me. It left me with tons of questions. And so I decided that I wanted to dig deeper and share some of what I learned with you all. So I actually had a conversation about what I learned with my true crime co-producer Olivia. And we posted our conversation up on Patreon. So we talked a little bit about the history. Olivia asked some questions and, you know,

1:11.1

it's open to conversation. You actually can post comments on there, everything. So if you want to

1:16.2

hear that, if you want to join in on that conversation, you can actually sign up for Patreon

1:20.8

for as little as $5 a month. And the benefit is in addition to getting this awesome bonus content, you actually directly

1:28.8

supporting truer crime. And so to sign up, all you have to do is go to patreon.com slash truer

1:35.1

crime pod. Patreon is spelled p-a-t-r-e-on. So patreon.com slash truercrime pod. Then you'll

1:42.2

select your membership tier and you can check out. And your

1:44.9

membership will renew every month. So you're going to have uninterrupted access to all of this

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