Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Con Man Who "Married" His Daughter - The Albert Walker Story
08 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: Who is Albert Walker and what was his financial scheme?
So this weirdo gets caught pretending that his daughter is his wife? What? So the guy's name is Albert and Albert's around 42 when this story starts and he's living in Ontario, Canada. And Albert is very much a shady guy. Like he owns a financial services company where he helps people invest their money. But here's the problem with that, though. It's all a scam.
Albert is actually just a con man running a Ponzi scheme. But whatever, he's making good money from this scam. And of course, he's using all this money to flex his lifestyle like he's going on expensive vacations and buying nice cars and all that. But one day in 1987, all that changes. Because suddenly, kaboom, the stock market crashes.
And Albert's investors start freaking out and they hit him up wanting to withdraw their investments. And pretty quickly, he runs out of money to pay everyone back because, you know, it's a big Ponzi scheme. And all his clients get impatient and pissed off. And Albert realizes it's only a matter of time before the whole scheme collapses.
And if that isn't bad enough, he's also going through a really ugly divorce. So Albert's life sucks right now, and he's caught between pissed off investors and an awful personal life. So what does he decide to do? He decides to just flee the country, and he's going to take at least one of his kids with him, even if it means he'll have to abduct them.
So in 1990, he takes what's left of the investor's money and he gets his 15 year old daughter, this girl, Sheena, and he flees the country. And the two of them travel from Canada all the way over to London, England. So through this Ponzi scheme, he had defrauded his clients out of $3.2 million. So there's no telling how much of that he fled with.
But anyway, eventually Albert's ex-wife realizes that he's fled the country with one of their daughters and she alerts the police. So now police are looking for him and they ultimately put Albert on Interpol's most wanted list. Meanwhile, Albert and Sheena get to London and they don't stay there too long.
They move to Paris and then to Geneva because they're trying to leave a false trail for the police. And after bouncing around for a while, in 1991, Albert finally settles in Harrogate in England. Which is like a quiet, low-key town. The kind of place where someone could easily slip under the radar. And so there, he and Sheena chill, and they try and blend in.
By this point, Albert, he's changed his name, and they're pretending that his 15-year-old daughter, Sheena, is actually his wife. Because he thinks it would look suspicious traveling around with a 15-year-old girl. So he tells everyone that this is his wife and Sheena goes along with it. But I guess it works.
People think Albert is a normal guy and, you know, he gets a job and he and Sheena even start going to church every Sunday and no one around them suspects a thing. Here's the thing though, although everything is going fine so far, Albert knows that he can't just rely on a fake name forever because all it takes is one background check and he'll be exposed as a fugitive.
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Chapter 2: What led Albert to flee Canada with his daughter?
So in 1994, he quietly moves away from Harrigan, first to Devon, then to Essex, so that she won't uncover his new identity. And if things couldn't get bad enough for him, then Ronald, the real Ronald, also moves back from Canada. So at this point, Albert knows that it's only a matter of time before he's exposed, and he decides that the only thing he can do is murder Ronald.
So one day he hits him up and he invites him to go out with him on a boat trip. And Ronald's like, sure. So they go. And once they're out all alone on the water, Albert grabs an anchor and suddenly, pow, he hits him on the head with it, knocking him unconscious. Then he throws him overboard. And unfortunately, Ronald dies. eventually drowns.
Then Albert leaves and he goes on to live his life now as Ronald. And still no one suspects anything, so it looks like he's gonna get away with all this.
Until... weeks pass and a local fisherman discovers Ronald's body floating in the water and he radios the coast guard and eventually the police get involved and they start investigating and when they examine Ronald's body they find a Rolex watch on his wrist and here's the thing about Rolex watches The company actually keeps track of every servicing record, including serial numbers and owners.
So police trace the watch back to its owner. And that is how they confirm that this body belongs to Ronald. And when they look into who Ronald is, they find that another man has been using his identity. That man is Albert. And so, bam, they arrest him. Here's a picture of him in real life. And so ultimately he goes to trial and he's found guilty and he gets sentenced to life in prison.
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