Ray William Johnson

But then...

Valerie goes to court for violating the restraining order and John goes to court to testify against her.

So Valerie gets out of trouble and ultimately she and John get back together.

And if you thought this couldn't get any more messy, oh, it actually gets much worse.

So John and Valerie are now living together, which means Valerie is around John's teenage daughter a lot more, and she still doesn't like John's teenage daughter.

Not only that, but she's now going through the divorce with Isaiah.

And she's all pissed off about that because, you know, that's a whole stressful, expensive, and tedious legal process.

And as time goes on, she keeps getting angrier and angrier about the divorce.

And by 2019, she finally goes off the deep end.

One day, she tells John that her soon-to-be ex, Isaiah, needs to just die, and that she wants to hire a hitman to do it.

And John, I guess he just sort of brushes it off, like he doesn't think she's being serious.

But later, she's still talking about the idea.

Plus, she says that they should kill his teenage daughter as well!

So now, he knows she's serious.

Now, as much as John likes Valerie, he's not about to hire a hitman to take out his own daughter.

This is a serious crime she's talking about doing.

So he's like, all right, and he pretends to go along with it.

But the next time she goes to work, he goes and he reports her to the FBI.

And the FBI tells him that he should start recording their conversations and that maybe she'll end up incriminating herself.

So John starts low-key recording their conversations.