He Took A Unique Approach To Fighting Crime By Becoming A Fake Hitman
For many years, a man named Gary Johnson took a unique and deceptive approach to fighting crime.
He was popular with people looking to hire an assassin to take out their coworkers, spouses, or other family members.
In reality, he was an undercover cop, posing as a professional hitman to entrap these individuals and bring them to justice, all while conning them out of their money. Over the course of his career, he aided in the arrest of more than 60 people.
Johnson grew up in rural Louisiana and had a nice, normal childhood. His first experience in law enforcement was in Vietnam, where he worked as a military policeman for a year.
Afterward, he spent a short time as a sheriff’s deputy in Louisiana. In the 1970s, he served as an undercover mole for a Texas police department, helping them bust drug dealers. It turned out that he was quite skilled at being undercover.
However, at the time, his dream was to be a college professor of psychology. He earned a master’s degree in psychology from McNeese State University in Louisiana.
In 1981, he moved to Houston, hoping to enroll in the doctoral program at the University of Houston. He was rejected, which led him to accept a job as an investigator for the district attorney’s office. That was how he became a fake hitman.
In 1989, the Houston Police Department found out that a 37-year-old lab technician named Kathy Scott was looking for a hitman to murder her husband.
The department designated Johnson as the hitman. He created a fake persona and met up with the woman at a bowling alley.
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She instructed him on when and where to kill her husband. She offered Johnson $2,500 to carry out the murder.
Moments later, the police showed up to arrest her. She was sentenced to 80 years in prison. After that, police departments across Texas were requesting Johnson’s services.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he led a double life as an undercover hitman and a psychology professor at a community college.
Another case Johnson took on involved a 31-year-old oil rig worker named Robert Holliday. Holliday had asked a topless dancer to find someone to murder his wife for him because she had left him for another man, and he wanted to get full custody of their children.
The dancer notified the police. When Johnson met with Holliday, he accepted a $2,500 fee and agreed to make it look like his wife died by suicide while Holliday was away at work. Authorities arrived to arrest Holliday.
Johnson’s most notable case was the time he was hired by Lynn Kilroy, the former vice president of the Houstonaires Republican Women.
She hated her oil tycoon husband but did not want to divorce him. She gave Johnson $200,000 in jewelry as payment. Of course, the next day, her name was plastered all over the papers.
The story of Gary Johnson has made a profound cultural impact. It inspired a 2023 film titled Hit Man, starring Glenn Powell.
Johnson’s story also raises questions about the lengths individuals of all backgrounds will go to make their problems disappear. He died in 2022, leaving behind a legacy as a crime-fighting hitman.
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