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Louisville Public Media.

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God's gonna deal with my enemies and boy are they gonna to get it. My daddy is going to get them.

Y'all feel that way? My daddy's going to get them.

It's Sunday morning and the congregation to the Heart of Fire Church is listening to a fiery sermon about heaven and hell, worldly temptation, and the grace of Jesus.

This is pretty typical here, long winding sermons, no breaks for music or hymns, a message of salvation.

But there's one big difference, the person behind the pulpit. It's Rebecca Johnson. Her husband is dead.

Help me say, I'm the breast of the Lord. I am the breast to the law.

You're listening to the Pope's long con, from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting

in Louisville Public Media.

I'm Jake Ryan.

At the end of the last chapter, we knew the story wasn't over,

but none of us knew just what would happen next.

Here's R.G Dunlop.

On December 11, 2017, we released a 10,000 word investigation detailing the life of

Danny Ray Johnson, the man who called himself the Pope.

We debunked claims he'd made about who he was and what he'd done.

We exposed his lies and crimes, and we reported, for the first first time an allegation of sexual assault that a young

woman made against Johnson in 2013.

Johnson was a state representative for Bullitt County's 49th House District.

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