Ray William Johnson

Now, at this point in the story, the show is huge.

Plus, he's got this other government job.

So he hosts the show, but he doesn't have time to personally rush out to every crime scene.

So now they have a team of reporters doing it in his stead.

Now, despite the fact that this show is already getting crazy good ratings, at some point Wallace decides it's just not good enough.

He wants more.

And he and his team noticed that any time they show graphic footage of a newly murdered dead body, their ratings spike significantly.

So Wallace starts thinking, how could we get more dead bodies?

And this is where he comes up with this insane strategy to get his ratings higher than they've ever been before.

He decides to start orchestrating some of the crimes.

That way he can get lots of dramatic crime content.

And his field reporters will always be first on the scene and they can like film the dead bodies and stuff before they're covered up.

And he will literally hire a hitman to assassinate someone, usually a suspected drug trafficker or some other criminal.

And then he will tell his reporter crew exactly where the crime scene is going to be.

And when that reporter crew shows up, they can film the dead body before the police get there.

And this actually works.

And the audience loves seeing this stuff.

So the show's ratings stay high.

A lot of times, Wallace's TV crew will show up to the crime scene before the police themselves show up.

So it's all very exciting TV.