Michael Maurice Johnson (Episode 194)

Black True Crime Podcast

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As you guys can see by this point, this week’s episode is named after a man. BUT like most of the cases on our show, it all starts with the death of a woman.

Not just the death, the MURDER… and not a woman, but a teenage girl. We hate it already. JOIN US as we discuss the murder of Phylicia Barnes, and the man convicted of killing her, Michael Maurice Johnson.

RIP to Phylicia!

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0:00.0	Black Tree Crime is a podcast that researches and discusses murders committed by Black offenders.
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0:40.1	Hi guys.
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0:49.3	You probably have forgotten.
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0:52.5	And if this is your first time here at the show, friend, welcome and hello.
0:56.3	Hey, y'all.
0:57.3	Come to the morning.
0:58.8	We're back.
1:00.3	We're super, super back and super excited to be.
1:04.7	Yeah, let's not talk about the last month that we were gone.
1:07.5	We're just not going to dwell on it.
1:09.3	I also turned 30, you guys.
1:11.4	So that was a whole thing.
1:16.9	So we had a great time.
1:20.7	Missed you guys so much, honestly, though.
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