*Patreon freebie!* The Troubling Tale of Johnny Lewis | Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown

Hey Misfits, Kate here. I was working on a different episode for you this week when my body was possessed by what can only be described as a stomach demon. I've been super sick, so instead of what I had planned I'm giving you one of our Patreon episodes (Patronians - please forgive me! I have a new episode coming for you this week).

This case has a bit of everything: Scientology, Katy Perry, mental illness, and a sweet old landlady who makes homemade tamales. Johnny Lewis had really begun to make a name for himself in Hollywood. After recurring on "The O.C." he went on to star in the first two seasons of "Sons of Anarchy" in the role for which he became most known. While some detected trouble brewing within the young actor, few could have predicted the grisly and brutal murder he would carry out, in a crime scene that seemed straight out of a horror movie.

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Episode Sources:

"The Secret Life of Johnny Lewis" by Bill Jensen

"Warning Signs Seen Before Actor's Violent End" by Greg Risling

"Katy Perry 'Devastated' Over Johnny Lewis' Death" by Beth Anne Macaluso

"'Sons of Anarchy' Actor Johnny Lewis Kills Woman, Dies in a Fall: Cops" by Howard Breuer

Johnny Lewis' Autopsy Report

And here's a sweet anecdote about Cathy from one of her neighbors

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