210: A Cool Teacher & Teenaged Love

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PSA: If you haven’t Googled that “cool” teacher from high school, go ahead. We’ll wait.

Douglas Le had a reputation for being the cool teacher at Gilroy High School. He was young and highly educated. He could relate to his students! He told hilarious, edgy jokes! He joked about the size of his students’ genitals. He joked about having sex with their moms. In the fall of 2014, one mother alerted the school district to Douglas Le’s behavior. They didn’t listen.

Then Brandi tells us a very on-brand story. It was September 2, 2003. Sarah Johnson ran to a neighbor’s house in a panic. Her parents, Diane and Alan Scott Johnson were dead in their bedroom. When investigators arrived on the scene, they got there just in time to stop a garbage truck from taking evidence from the crime scene.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
The Web of Lies episode “The Enemy Within”
“Ex-Campbell teacher who catfished students arrested again on teen sex allegations,” by Robert Salonga for the Mercury News
“Gilroy sex offender teacher set free,” by Jack Foley for the Gilroy Dispatch
“At school, he was the ‘cool’ teacher. Online, police say, he was a student-seducing porn star,” by Peter Holley for the Washington Post

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Disrobed” episode Forensic Files
“Love Interrupted- Diane and Alan Johnson Murders” episode 20/20
“Couple’s killer wore bathrobe backwards, says” by Patti Murphy, The Times-News
“Conflicting evidence brought at Johnson Trial” Associated Press, South Idaho Press
“Family gets day in court” by Patti Murphy, The Times-News
“Bellevue, Idaho” wikipedia.org
“Teen Charged With Parents’ Gruesome Murder” by Elizabeth R. Grodd and Jeffrey L Diamond, ABC News
“The Johnson Family Murders” by Emily Thompson, Morbidology
“Sarah Marie Johnson” murderpedia.org
“Sarah Marie Johnson v. State of Idaho” findlaw.com

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