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The horrifying true story of Katy Perry's ex · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today's story is about a famous Hollywood actor who did
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Speaker 1: something truly horrific.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get into today's story.
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Speaker 1: Before we get started, I want to give a special
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Speaker 1: shout out to Billy Jensen, who is a fantastic true
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Speaker 1: crime investigative journalist. who wrote the article for the LA
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Speaker 1: Magazine called The Secret Life of Johnny Lewis. That article
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Speaker 1: was used extensively in the making of today's video.
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Speaker 2: So thank you, Billy. Johnny Lewis was only seven years
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Speaker 2: old when he landed his first acting role.
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Speaker 1: Granted, it was only a bit part in an obscure
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Speaker 1: escalator safety video, but it was a start. From there,
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Speaker 1: Johnny appeared in dozens of commercials, including with Pizza Hut,
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Speaker 1: before someone recognized this kid has real talent and he
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Speaker 1: earned appearances on the hit TV shows Seventh Heaven, Malcolm
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Speaker 1: in the Middle, and Drake and Josh, which were really
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Speaker 1: big in the late 90s and early 2000s. In 2001,
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Speaker 1: when Johnny was 18 years old, he had made enough
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Speaker 1: money from acting that he was able to leave his
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Speaker 1: parents' home in North Los Angeles and move into a
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Speaker 1: new home right in Hollywood with a bunch of other
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Speaker 1: up-and-coming actors and actresses. By 2006, when Johnny was 23
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Speaker 1: years old, he was riding high. He had landed several
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Speaker 1: more big TV roles, like a recurring role in the
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Speaker 1: show The O.C., which was very popular in the 2000s.
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Speaker 2: And in 2006, he was dating the mega pop star
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Speaker 2: Katy Perry.
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Speaker 1: And although their romance was relatively short, apparently it was
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Speaker 1: very intense because Katy would go on to write two
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Speaker 1: songs that were apparently about Johnny. But Johnny's real rise
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Speaker 1: to stardom occurred two years later in 2008, when he
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Speaker 1: was cast as the character Halfsack, on the critically acclaimed
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Speaker 1: motorcycle drama Sons of Anarchy. While the show made him
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Speaker 1: famous and fabulously wealthy, Johnny was growing concerned with the
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Speaker 1: direction the show was taking. He felt like it was
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Speaker 1: becoming too violent. Johnny liked reading poetry and studying philosophy
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Speaker 1: and staying up late drinking tea and playing chess. He
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Speaker 1: did not like acting out scenes of gratuitous violence. It
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Speaker 1: just wasn't who he was. So after being on the
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Speaker 1: show for two seasons very successfully, he was a very
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Speaker 1: popular character, He went to the writers and said, you
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Speaker 1: got to write me out of the script.
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Speaker 2: I can't do this anymore.
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Speaker 1: The writers were totally caught off guard and begged him
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Speaker 1: to stay, but he had made up his mind. And
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Speaker 1: so in 2009, his character was killed off. After leaving
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Speaker 1: Sons of Anarchy, Johnny decided that he wasn't going to
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Speaker 1: pursue any serious acting roles for the time being. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he wanted to focus his time on writing his first novel,
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Speaker 1: which was about this musical genius trying to make his
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Speaker 1: way in the world. And so he started asking around
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Speaker 1: to see if anybody he knew knew of a quiet
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Speaker 1: place he could live and write out of. And his
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Speaker 1: photographer said, I think I know the place. It was
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Speaker 1: called the Writer's Villa, and it was this beautiful house
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Speaker 1: with six bedrooms for rent right outside of Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: Over the years, it had become a sort of safe.
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Speaker 1: Haven for up-and-coming actors and actresses still looking to land
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Speaker 1: their big break. The reason it developed this reputation was
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Speaker 1: because of the owner, Kathy Davis. She was this wonderful
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Speaker 1: woman who really understood how difficult writing trying to break
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Speaker 1: into Hollywood was for all these people that stayed at
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Speaker 1: her house and so she would look after them and
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Speaker 1: make them food and offer them rides and she would
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Speaker 1: stay up late and listen to their frustrations and be
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Speaker 1: a shoulder to cry on if they didn't get the
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Speaker 1: part they wanted. Many of her tenants who went on
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Speaker 1: to be big Hollywood stars would later attribute their success
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Speaker 1: at least in part to the time they spent with
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Speaker 1: Kathy at the villa which they remembered as being therapeutic
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Speaker 1: and soothing. Even though Johnny had already had his big
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Speaker 1: break in The Sons of Anarchy He loved the idea
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Speaker 1: of living in such a peaceful place that seemed to
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Speaker 1: cater to eccentric artists like himself. So in April of 2009,
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Speaker 1: Johnny called Kathy and requested a room.
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Speaker 2: And she said, absolutely, you can stay on the second
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Speaker 2: floor in the red suite.
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Speaker 1: After moving in, Johnny would tell his friends that the
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Speaker 1: writer's villa was just as amazing as he thought it
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Speaker 1: was going to be. And Kathy specifically was just as
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Speaker 1: wonderful as everyone said she was. He actually struck up
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Speaker 1: a friendship with her almost immediately. Everything seemed to be
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Speaker 1: going really well for Johnny in his life. until a
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Speaker 1: few months later, he found out his girlfriend, Diane, was pregnant.
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Speaker 1: Although this totally screwed up his plans for his novel,
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Speaker 1: Johnny was really excited about being a father, and so
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Speaker 1: he decided to move out of the villa and in
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Speaker 1: with Diane, who lived nearby, to help take care of
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Speaker 1: their child. Nine months later, on April 6, 2010, Diane
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Speaker 1: gave birth to a healthy little girl named Cullamay, and
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Speaker 1: Johnny and Diane fell madly in love with her. But unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: Johnny and Diane's love for each other faded quickly after
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Speaker 1: becoming parents, and before long, Johnny had moved out.
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Speaker 2: And back in with his parents.
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Speaker 1: Not long after that, Johnny and Diane became embroiled in
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Speaker 1: this really vicious, long custody battle over Calame, which ultimately
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Speaker 1: Johnny lost, which was devastating for him. A few months later,
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Speaker 1: in October of 2011, when Johnny was still living with
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Speaker 1: his parents, he decided to take his motorcycle out and
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Speaker 1: just go ride around and clear his head. And so
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Speaker 1: he drove for about two hours to the west of
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Speaker 1: LA out into the desert where.
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Speaker 2: He lost control of his bike and he crashed.
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Speaker 1: After getting to the hospital, his injuries were determined to
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Speaker 1: be relatively minor, except they were concerned he might have
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Speaker 1: a head injury. However, after testing negative for a concussion,
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Speaker 1: he was said to be okay by doctors and he
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Speaker 1: was sent home. But when he got home from the hospital,
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Speaker 1: he was not okay. He was a totally different person.
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Speaker 1: Johnny's father, Michael, immediately noticed the change in his son's behavior.
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Speaker 1: He just started acting really weird and erratic and his
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Speaker 1: thoughts weren't always coherent and he was really agitated all
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Speaker 1: the time. It was just very obvious that something was off.
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Speaker 1: And it made Michael wonder, perhaps my son did get
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Speaker 1: a head injury from that motorcycle accident and the doctors
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Speaker 1: just missed it. And so Michael scheduled two separate MRIs
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Speaker 1: for Johnny to go to but for whatever reason, Johnny
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Speaker 1: refused to go.
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Speaker 2: Around this time, Johnny's friends began.
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Speaker 1: To notice his strange behavior when in December of that year,
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Speaker 1: he was at an acting class and he began speaking
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Speaker 1: in a vaguely British accent and everybody in the class
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Speaker 1: noticed it and eventually someone said, hey, you know, why
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Speaker 1: are you doing that?
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Speaker 2: And Johnny was like, what?
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Speaker 1: And just kind of shrugged it off and acted like
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Speaker 1: he wasn't doing that. A few weeks later on the
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Speaker 1: morning of January 3rd, 2012, Johnny was at his parents'
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Speaker 1: house and he was sitting in the kitchen while his
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Speaker 1: mom was making omelets And Johnny just kind of abruptly says,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go out for a walk.
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Speaker 2: So he gets up. He's only got his pajamas on,
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Speaker 2: no shoes on. He walks out the door.
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Speaker 1: And as he's walking down the road, he gets maybe
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Speaker 1: 10 or 15 feet away from his parents' house when
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Speaker 1: he hears someone screaming, like they're screaming in distress. And
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Speaker 1: he thinks it's coming from the apartment that was right
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Speaker 1: next to his parents' house. And so he breaks into
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Speaker 1: the apartment, but there's no one in the apartment. It's
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Speaker 1: totally vacant. And so as he's in this apartment wondering
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Speaker 1: what's going on, The two men that owned the apartment,
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Speaker 1: they came home and they see Johnny standing there and
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Speaker 1: they told him he had to leave immediately and instead
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Speaker 1: of leaving immediately, Johnny grabbed a nearby glass bottle and
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Speaker 1: he charged at them and hit them both over the
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Speaker 1: head with the bottle before they managed to restrain him
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Speaker 1: and hold him down until the police showed up. Johnny
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Speaker 1: claimed he was acting in self-defense but the police didn't
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Speaker 1: believe him and so they charged him with trespassing, burglary,
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Speaker 1: and assault with a deadly weapon, and they sent him
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Speaker 1: to jail. When Johnny's father was finally able to come
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Speaker 1: to the jail and bail his son out, it had
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Speaker 1: been eight days, and in those eight days, Johnny had
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Speaker 1: been moved from general population to a psych ward because
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Speaker 1: he was banging his head against the inside of his cell,
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Speaker 1: and at one point, he had tried to jump off
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Speaker 1: of a balcony, and he was just generally acting unhinged.
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Speaker 1: And so when he was discharged, on his paperwork, a
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Speaker 1: doctor at the jail had commented that he thought Johnny
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Speaker 1: at one point must have had some sort of head
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Speaker 1: injury that had made him act this way. And he
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Speaker 1: was definitely suicidal. When Johnny got back to his parents' house,
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Speaker 1: he was an absolute wreck. Physically, I mean, he had
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Speaker 1: two black eyes and his face was all puffed up
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Speaker 1: from the confrontation he had with those two men in
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Speaker 1: the apartment. And emotionally, he was so distraught that he
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Speaker 1: wouldn't let anyone in his family come near him. he'd
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Speaker 1: just hold up in his room and just told everyone
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Speaker 1: to stay away. He also became extremely sensitive to light,
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Speaker 1: to the point where he was turning off all the
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Speaker 1: lights in his parents' home, and then when they would
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Speaker 1: eventually just turn them back on again, he would get
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Speaker 1: agitated and turn them all off, and then finally, he
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Speaker 1: just disabled his parents' fuse box. But despite Johnny's obvious
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Speaker 1: issues after coming home from jail, over the next few weeks,
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Speaker 1: he did actually seem to be improving, to the point
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Speaker 1: where at the end of January, so about a month
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Speaker 1: after he came home from jail, his parents allowed him
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Speaker 1: to move out and go live on his own in
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Speaker 1: Santa Monica, California, about 30 minutes away. But as soon
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Speaker 1: as he was living on his own, his troubles started again.
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Speaker 1: On February 10th, so about a week after moving into
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Speaker 1: this place in Santa Monica, He was arrested for punching
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Speaker 1: some random stranger in the head outside of a yogurt shop,
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Speaker 1: but he was ultimately released on $ 20, 000 bail. A couple
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Speaker 1: of days later, Johnny, fully clothed, just walked into the ocean,
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Speaker 1: and when he was pulled out, he had to be
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Speaker 1: brought to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia. A
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Speaker 1: couple of days after getting out of the hospital, he
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Speaker 1: was arrested again, this time for trying.
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Speaker 2: To break into a woman's apartment in Santa Monica.
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Speaker 1: He claimed he thought it was his friend's apartment, but
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Speaker 1: nobody believed him, so he was brought to jail and
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Speaker 1: then released on bail again. After the second arrest in
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Speaker 1: Santa Monica, Johnny's parents finally convinced him to go see
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Speaker 1: a doctor about this potential head injury they thought he
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Speaker 1: got from that 2011 motorcycle crash. Even though that jailhouse
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Speaker 1: doc had suggested Johnny had a head injury, he had
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Speaker 1: not officially diagnosed him. So Johnny needed another doctor to
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Speaker 1: officially diagnose his head injury so they could begin to
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Speaker 1: treat it. But the doctor Johnny wound up seeing did
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Speaker 1: not suspect a head injury instead he suspected schizophrenia or
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Speaker 1: bipolar which are two very serious mental disorders and so
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Speaker 1: he prescribed some medication to johnny that would treat both
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Speaker 1: of those disorders and johnny was on his way johnny
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Speaker 1: refused to take the medication and refused to go see
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Speaker 1: another doctor And so his condition just continued to get worse.
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Speaker 1: Johnny was still facing serious jail time for the break-in
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Speaker 1: and assault against those two men in the apartment next
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Speaker 1: to his parents' home. And so Johnny's lawyer was trying
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Speaker 1: to get a deal done where Johnny would go to
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Speaker 1: a mental health treatment facility for a year instead of
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Speaker 1: going to jail for a year. But Johnny was so
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Speaker 1: confident these charges would just get dropped and he'd be
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Speaker 1: allowed to go back to his life and live the
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Speaker 1: way he wanted to that he fired his lawyer and
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Speaker 1: he represented himself in court. but the charges were not
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Speaker 1: dropped and he was sentenced to one year in prison. However,
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Speaker 1: the jail he was sent to was so overcrowded, they
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Speaker 1: reduced his sentence all the way down to only six weeks.
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Speaker 1: When Johnny's father finally came to pick him up from
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Speaker 1: prison on Friday, September 21st, 2012, Johnny was at an
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Speaker 1: all time low. Even though he'd only been in jail
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Speaker 1: for six weeks instead of the year he was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be there, it was clear that amount of time had.
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Speaker 2: Done an enormous amount of damage to him.
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Speaker 1: And so on the car ride home from prison, Johnny
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Speaker 1: just kind of sheepishly asked his father, you know, hey, dad,
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Speaker 1: would it be possible if you called Kathy Davis at
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Speaker 1: the writer's villa and just see if there's any way
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Speaker 1: I can move back in? And Michael's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, I hadn't thought of that. But the writer's
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Speaker 1: villa was the last place Johnny was when his life
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Speaker 1: was still in order. It was probably the last place
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Speaker 1: he was happy. And so he probably has attached a
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Speaker 1: lot of fond memories to that place.
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Speaker 2: And so that's a great place for him to go.
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Speaker 1: And so as soon as they got home, Michael called
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Speaker 1: Kathy Davis and explained the situation and said, you know,
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Speaker 1: is there any way he can stay there? And she said, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: The red suite is still available. I'll go up and
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Speaker 1: make the bed right now. I can't wait to see him.
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Speaker 1: Johnny stayed with his parents that weekend. And then on Monday,
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Speaker 1: September 24th, he packed up his stuff and he moved
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Speaker 1: back into the villa.
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Speaker 2: Two days later, a 70-year-old.
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Speaker 1: Man named Dan Blackburn, who was actually neighbors to the
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Speaker 1: writer's villa property, he was looking out his front window
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Speaker 1: at this man who was standing out in the road
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Speaker 1: He only had on jeans and red shoes. He had
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Speaker 1: no shirt on and he was very sweaty and he
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Speaker 1: was just kind of frantically pacing around the road and
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Speaker 1: he had never seen this guy before. And so he's
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Speaker 1: just kind of poking out behind his curtain, watching him
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Speaker 1: to see what he's going to do next. And after
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Speaker 1: about 15 minutes of this kind of strange pacing in
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Speaker 1: the road, this guy turns and walks directly towards Dan's property,
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Speaker 1: goes right up to the front step and starts knocking
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Speaker 1: on the door. Dan was definitely a little bit concerned,
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Speaker 1: but he shut the curtain. He walked over to the door.
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Speaker 1: He looks out the peephole and there's this guy standing
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Speaker 1: there with bright blue eyes that are all wide and
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Speaker 1: he's looking at the peephole as if he can see
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Speaker 1: through and see Dan, but he can't. And so Dan
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Speaker 1: reaches down and he opens the door just a little
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Speaker 1: bit and he looks out and the guy outside looks
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Speaker 1: at him and goes, Hi, I'm John.
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Speaker 2: I'm your new neighbor.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out John was Johnny Lewis. And so
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Speaker 1: Dan opened the door a little bit farther and he
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Speaker 1: looks at him and he goes, Hi, John.
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Speaker 2: Nice to meet you.
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Speaker 1: And before the two men could have any sort of conversation,
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Speaker 1: Johnny just abruptly turned around and walked away. And so
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Speaker 1: Dan is totally puzzled by this strange interaction he's just
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Speaker 1: had with Johnny Lewis. And he's watching him as he
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Speaker 1: just walks back to the road. He walks back over
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Speaker 1: and goes inside the villa and disappears. And so Dan
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Speaker 1: kind of shrugs it off. He shuts his door, locks it,
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Speaker 1: and goes back to his morning routine. About 30 minutes later,
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Speaker 1: Dan is doing his own thing in his house when
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Speaker 1: he hears his wife outside screaming for him to come outside.
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Speaker 1: And so Dan runs out the front door. He goes
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Speaker 1: into his driveway, which is between his property and the
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Speaker 1: writer's villa. And he sees his wife is standing in
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Speaker 1: the driveway, horrified, pointing up towards the back of their house.
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Speaker 2: He looks down and back near their back deck. Johnny,
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Speaker 2: Johnny Lewis.
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Speaker 1: Is standing on top of the guy that Dan and
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Speaker 1: his wife had hired that day to paint their back deck.
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Speaker 1: Johnny is just raining blows down on this guy. He's
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Speaker 1: got a piece of wood too that he's hitting him with.
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Speaker 1: And the worker is sitting there trying to shield himself.
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Speaker 2: There's blood all over him.
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Speaker 1: And Dan instinctively just runs over to Johnny. Johnny's not
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Speaker 1: seen Dan at this point. Dan gets right up to
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Speaker 1: him and he grabs him by the shoulder and he
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Speaker 1: tries pulling Johnny off. He's screaming at Johnny to stop,
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Speaker 1: but Johnny just seems totally unfazed. He's just destroying this worker.
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Speaker 1: And so finally, after Dan yanks on Johnny hard enough,
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Speaker 1: Johnny jumps up, turns around, and levels Dan square in
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Speaker 1: the face. Dan falls to the ground and when he
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Speaker 1: looks up, Johnny is just standing over him, looking at
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Speaker 1: him with no expression on his face. It's like he
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Speaker 1: didn't know what he was going to do with Dan next.
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Speaker 1: So he just stood there and stared at him. But
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Speaker 1: Dan wasn't going to waste any time. He jumped up
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Speaker 1: and he clocked Johnny square in the side of the head.
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Speaker 1: But it had no effect on Johnny. He still just
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Speaker 1: stared at Dan completely expressionless. And so Dan grabbed a
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Speaker 1: nearby lawn chair and practically broke it over the head
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Speaker 1: of Johnny. But again, it had no effect on Johnny.
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Speaker 1: He just stood there completely expressionless staring at Dan. And
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Speaker 1: so at this point, Dan just grabs the worker who
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Speaker 1: can barely stand. And he runs back down the driveway.
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Speaker 1: He grabs his wife and they run towards the house
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Speaker 1: to go inside. And the three of them managed to
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Speaker 1: get inside the house. And as they're shutting the big
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Speaker 1: heavy door, Johnny comes bounding up and he gets right
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Speaker 1: in front and he jams his arm in the space
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Speaker 1: between the door and the wall. So they can't close
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Speaker 1: the door because it's getting stuck on his arm. And
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Speaker 1: so all three of the adults inside, Dan, his wife,
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Speaker 1: and the painter are putting all of their weight on
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Speaker 1: this huge wooden door onto Johnny's arm. And Johnny is
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Speaker 1: just trying to grab them the whole time. And so finally,
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Speaker 1: the three of them start raising the door and slamming
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Speaker 1: it as hard as they can on Johnny's arm.
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Speaker 2: And finally, after several hard blows.
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Speaker 1: To his arm, Johnny retracted his arm and they were
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Speaker 1: able to shut the door and lock it. And so
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Speaker 1: at this point, Dan's wife and the painter ran around
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Speaker 1: the house, closing every window, locking every door. Meanwhile, Dan
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Speaker 1: went to the side window that looked out towards the
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Speaker 1: writer's villa property And he got his phone out and
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Speaker 1: he called 911 as he's looking out the door looking
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Speaker 1: for Johnny. And so after he tells 911 what's going
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Speaker 1: on and he hangs up, Johnny suddenly just appears running
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Speaker 1: down his driveway as if he's running back towards the
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Speaker 1: back deck. But he stops almost right in front of
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Speaker 1: Dan's window. He turns and he starts running towards the
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Speaker 1: villa property. He jumps over a fence that's at least
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Speaker 1: waist height, just jumps clear over it. And then he
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Speaker 1: gets to this huge wooden fence that surrounded the entire
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Speaker 1: villa property that was at least, you know, 8, 9,
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Speaker 1: 10 feet. And he very easily just jumps, grabs the
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Speaker 1: top and catapults himself right over the top and then
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Speaker 1: disappeared inside of the villa. Within minutes, the police showed
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Speaker 1: up and they went inside the villa and they could
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Speaker 1: not believe what they found. Based on the evidence, this
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Speaker 1: is what investigators believe happened. After Johnny, for the first time,
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Speaker 1: walked up to Dan's property and awkwardly knocked on the
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Speaker 1: door and said, hi, I'm John, I'm your new neighbor.
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Speaker 2: After that, he turned.
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Speaker 1: Around and Dan watched him as he left his property
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Speaker 1: and made his way back and went inside the villa.
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Speaker 2: Once Johnny got inside the.
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Speaker 1: Villa, He made his way up to the second floor
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Speaker 1: and he went into Kathy Davis's room where she was sitting. Now,
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Speaker 1: Kathy most likely turned and saw Johnny standing in the doorway.
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Speaker 2: He's got no shirt on. He's sweating. He looks totally crazed.
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Speaker 2: She probably was not scared.
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Speaker 1: Instead, her motherly instincts kicked in and she probably said, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you okay?
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Speaker 2: Can I help you? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: And as she probably stood up and made her way
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Speaker 1: over to make sure he was okay, Johnny, for reasons
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Speaker 1: no one understands... proceeded to beat and kick and strangle her.
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Speaker 1: And then when she fell to the ground and was
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Speaker 1: totally helpless, Johnny proceeded to either stomp on her skull
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Speaker 1: repeatedly or he hit her over the head repeatedly with
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Speaker 1: a rusty hammer that was later found in his bedroom.
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Speaker 1: But no matter how Johnny did it, he managed to
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Speaker 1: severely fracture her skull and that's what ultimately killed her.
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Speaker 1: After killing Kathy, Johnny tracked down her beloved cat and
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Speaker 1: killed the cat the same way. Afterwards, Johnny ran out
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Speaker 1: of the villa, and that's when he spotted Dan's house
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Speaker 1: painter just sitting outside, and he walked over to him
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Speaker 1: and just began beating him. And just like the attack
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Speaker 1: on Kathy and her cat, this attack on this house
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Speaker 1: painter appeared to have no motive as well. After Dan
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Speaker 1: came outside and managed to fight Johnny off, And then
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Speaker 1: when Dan went back inside the house with his wife
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Speaker 1: and with the painter, Johnny stood outside for a few
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Speaker 1: minutes before running down Dan's driveway and then hopping over
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Speaker 1: those two fences right in front of Dan. And then
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Speaker 1: Johnny disappeared inside of the villa. Once Johnny was in
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Speaker 1: the villa, it's believed he climbed up to the upper
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Speaker 1: patio or onto the roof of the villa itself. And
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Speaker 1: from there, he either jumped or fell to his death
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Speaker 1: on the driveway below.
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Speaker 2: His death was officially ruled an accident, not a suicide.
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Speaker 1: After the news broke about what had happened at the
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Speaker 1: writer's villa, Everybody assumed Johnny must have been on some
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Speaker 1: really hardcore drugs. That's the only explanation for why someone
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Speaker 1: would act the way he acted. But when his toxicology
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Speaker 1: report came back, It showed he had absolutely no drugs
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Speaker 1: of any kind, legal or illegal, in his system. He
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Speaker 1: was completely sober at the time he committed this horrible crime.
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Speaker 1: Some believe Johnny really did have some undiagnosed head injury
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Speaker 1: from that motorcycle accident, and this head injury is responsible
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Speaker 1: for his violent outbursts. Others disagree and say the head
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Speaker 1: injury had nothing to do with it. Johnny clearly had
18:52
Speaker 1: some undiagnosed mental disorder. Maybe it was schizophrenia. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: was bipolar. Maybe it was something else. But it was
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Speaker 1: this mental disorder that led to these violent outbursts. But
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