Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
He Killed a Teen: But was it self defense? - The Nicolae Miu story
05 Feb 2025
This is the story of Nicolae Miu, the man who stabbed a teen at the Apple River in Wisconsin. He later tried to claim self defense.
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So this old man is about to take a knife and unalive someone, but was it self-defense? So the guy's name is Nikolai and Nikolai is 54. He's living in Wisconsin. And one day it's summer 2022 and Nikolai and his friends, they decide to get some inner tubes and some alcohol and go float the local river. So they're like, sweet, let's go.
And they drive out there and they put their inner tubes in the water and they float a while and they're all drinking and having a good time. But then suddenly one of Nikolai's friends can't find his phone. It seems to be lost. And so they look around a bit, but no luck. They can't find it. And they realize, oh, bro. you must have dropped it along the way, like as we were floating.
And so Nikolai's a decent guy and he wants to help his friend out. And so he's like, well, I'll go find it. I got my goggles and my snorkel and I'll go back and look for it in the river where we were just at. And so Nikolai goes back a ways and he jumps in the river and he's like searching around looking for this phone. And that's when he sees this group of teenagers across the river.
And it looks like maybe they just found something. I think like maybe one of them just happened to be holding a phone up or something, and Nikolai's like, oh, that must be the phone. But whatever the reason, he goes over to them to check it out. Now, these teenagers, they're partying, they're drunk, they're having a good time, they're being rowdy.
And so when Nikolai, this awkward middle-aged man, comes over to them, they're understandably weirded out. They're like, what the , who is this? And one of them starts filming him. where does he are Now, I don't know why, but Nikolai doesn't really say much to them. Like, he doesn't stop and explain that he's there looking for his friend's phone. I don't know, maybe it's because he's drunk.
I don't know. Regardless, the teens get irritated. They don't know who he is or why the hell he's there, so they start telling him to leave.
Get away from us!
What? ! And from here, things really start to escalate. Suddenly, a woman from another totally different separate group comes over and she starts yelling at him to leave. Then, for some reason, they start loudly accusing him of being a P3DO. But Nikolai, he still isn't leaving.
In fact he isn't saying much at all. Then the group of teens, they all start surrounding him. And there's like 13 of them. And they start taunting him. And Nikolai, he's getting nervous at this point. I mean, there's a lot of people around him yelling at him. He's suddenly aware of how outnumbered he is. And so he does the only thing he can think of. He pulls a pocket knife out of his trunks.
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