Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
TikTok Star Murders His Wife - The Ali Abulaban story
20 Feb 2025
Ali Abulaban, also known as JinnKid, is a social media influencer and TikTok personality known for his comedic skits and impressions. In October 2021, he was arrested and charged with the double murder of his wife, Ana Abulaban, and her friend, Rayburn Barron, in San Diego. Prosecutors allege that the crime was motivated by jealousy after learning about his wife's intention to separate.
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So this TikToker really wants to be famous and known for something and oh is he about to get what he wants. Now his name's Ali and he's 29 living in San Diego and one day he starts posting videos on TikTok where he's doing like impressions of Skyrim characters and he's always doing impressions of Tony Montana from Scarface. And these videos blow up. And so he keeps making more and more.
And pretty soon Ali has nearly a million followers. And so he might actually be on his way to being famous. Now, Ali is married to this nice woman, Anna, and they have a daughter together. And soon she starts appearing in some of his TikToks every now and then, including one very memorable TikTok of them dancing with a caption talking about how their relationship is drama free.
But whatever, from their videos, it appears as if their relationship is good and his career seems to be on the up and up. And I can't imagine anything would ever go wrong. Until. Here's the thing about Ali. He's not the most stable person in the world. And over time, he picks up the habit of doing a lot of nose drugs that we'll just call Coca-Cola.
In fact, he's known to whip out a huge bag of Coca-Cola on his live streams and he'll get high in front of his audience. Now, obviously, I can't show you the part where he does the drugs, but regardless, this dude is obsessed with doing everything on camera. Like when he and Anna get into fights, he'll live stream it for some reason.
Don't even f***ing talk to me, b***h. F***ing taking away my whole life.
Yeah, it's crazy. But what he doesn't ever put on camera and show his TikTok audience is the parts where he gets violent with her, which he does sometimes when they argue. He's like shoving her and punching her and stuff like that. In fact, his violent outbursts get so bad that over the course of a few months, she calls police on him nine different times.
But that doesn't seem to faze him or get him to stop. In fact, all the attention he's getting online has made him feel like he's untouchable.
I don't even want to be like... And of course, he makes sure to let Anna know, like in voicemails and stuff.
And so at this point, you're probably like, Ray, if he's such a psychopath, why doesn't she just leave? Well, here's the thing about Anna. She's actually a Filipino citizen, and she got her visa to the US through her marriage to Ali. So when Anna brings up separating, he threatens to have her deported, which means she won't be able to be with her daughter who would stay with Ali in the US.
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