Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This NFL Football Player Is In Prison Now - The Rae Carruth story
01 Feb 2025
Rae Carruth, an NFL football player for the Carolina Panthers, murdered his girlfriend Cherica Adams
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The way this guy fumbled a $3.7 million bag is insane. Now his name is Ray and he's 23 and he's a really good football player in college. And one day the Carolina Panthers draft him and he signs a $3.7 million contract with them and bro is suddenly on fire. So he moves to North Carolina and he starts playing for the Panthers. And the dude is blowing up. He's finally making money.
The man is on trading cards. It doesn't get much cooler than that. Plus, he's semi-famous now. So he's catching the attention of a lot of single women. The ladies love Ray. But one day, he meets this real estate agent. Her name's Sharika. And Ray thinks Sharika is fine. and she thinks he's foing. So they flirt and they hit it off and eventually they start dating.
And they date for a while and from the outside, everything appears to be going pretty well. But then one day, Sharika drops a bomb on Ray. She's pregnant. And despite how Ray may be acting on the outside, on the inside, he's panicking. He is not ready for this. I mean, he already has one kid with another woman and he doesn't want yet another one? Plus, child support is really expensive.
For him, it's like $3,000 a month. He doesn't want to pay that. So clearly he has a lot of feelings about this. Now, I'm not sure if he communicates these concerns to Sharika or not. I assume he does. I assume he goes to her and he's like, yay, you're pregnant. Do you need me to like drive you to the clinic or something? But I have no proof of what their conversation was actually like.
Regardless, Sharika is keeping the baby. She's talking to people around her about it. She's going to her doctor's appointments. She's attending birthing classes. And to his credit, Ray goes with her to some of these birthing classes. So it seems like he's trying to be involved. And maybe he's trying to make this all work. Until one day Ray decides actually this isn't gonna work for him.
He doesn't want another baby. So secretly he comes up with a plan to take care of this problem for good. He's gonna hire a hitman to unalive Sharika so that she can't have the baby. Here's the problem with that though, other than it's murder. Ray doesn't really know any hitmen. I mean, he's a professional football player. Why would he know any hitmen?
But he does happen to know a guy who might be willing to do it. This guy, Watkins. And Watkins is a nightclub manager and he's kind of a shady dude. So he seems like he would be just the kind of guy who would unalive a pregnant woman for money. So Ray goes to Watkins and he's like, hey, will you help me assassinate my pregnant girlfriend? And Watkins is like, uh, I don't know.
And Ray's like, I'll pay you $5,000. And Watkins is like, aye. Which $5,000 for a hitman seems really inexpensive. Like I feel like they normally charge way more than that. So anyway, Ray continues pretending to be a supportive partner when he's around Sharika. He's like being all attentive and he's buying clothes for the baby and stuff like that.
Meanwhile, on the side, he and Watkins are trying to figure out exactly how this hit is gonna go down. And so, some time passes. And at this point in the story, Sharika is eight months pregnant. Here's actually a photo of her pregnant. And one night, Ray decides to take Sharika out on a date. He's gonna take her to the movie theater to see a movie.
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