Riley Whitelaw

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 2022, 17-year-old Riley Whitelaw was murdered by her co-worker, 28-year-old Joshua Johnson, in the breakroom of the Walgreens where they worked. Riley had been harassed by Joshua and had made complaints to management. For a time, the two worked different schedules. But, to get more hours, Riley had to be on the schedule with Johnson. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss Riley Whitelaw and her murderer, Joshua Johnson. Riley was put in a situation where she did not feel safe. Ultimately, that feeling proved correct when Joshua Johnson murdered Riley. This is a case that brings up many questions regarding how companies handle these types of situations. Many have levied that Walgreens did not do enough to protect Riley Whitelaw. What should they have done? You can help support the show at patreon.com/criminology An Emash Digital production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.7	Listener discretion is advised. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to episode 281 of the criminology podcast I'm Mike Ferguson and this is Mike Morford.
0:45.0	Mr Morford how you doing buddy? I'm doing good. Went out to bring my daughter to school
0:49.7	this morning and all of a sudden I noticed it was a bit chilly out there.
0:53.4	How was it up there?
0:55.0	A bit chilly, huh?
0:56.0	Yeah, we had, we've had a bunch of frost warnings already,
1:00.6	some snow warnings, flurry. I'm not ready for it, but I can't believe it's November already.
1:07.0	My wife and I were talking about this last night.
1:09.0	There's something about this year in particular, it just seemed to fly by. Yeah and my wife is
1:16.3	Christmas fanatics so she's chomping at the bit to take down the Halloween
1:21.3	decorations and already get putting up the Christmas decoration so.
1:25.0	But that sounds like work for you.
1:27.0	Now she does most of it.
1:28.0	She lives doing it.
1:29.0	Yeah, oh yeah.
1:30.0	That's cool.
1:31.0	Plus I interfere if I try and do things a certain way.
1:33.2	She's like, no, it doesn't look great that way.
1:34.7	So I just let the expert do it.
1:36.6	Yeah, well, we've all been there.
1:38.8	Hey, let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts.
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