Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Blade Runner Murder - The Oscar Pistorius story
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
This is the story of Oscar Pistorius.
Chapter 1: Who is the Blade Runner and what are his achievements?
So this guy won a bunch of Olympic medals, got famous, and then he unalived someone. Now, his name is Oscar, but we'll call him Blade Runner because that's what everyone calls him. Now, Blade Runner is a Paralympic runner who's really good at what he does. He won a bronze medal. He's won a couple of gold medals. He's won a bunch. He set a new Paralympic record, and that's all great.
Chapter 2: How did Oscar Pistorius transition to competing in the Olympics?
But one day, Blade decides that's not enough for him. He doesn't just want to compete in the Paralympics. He wants to compete in the Olympic Olympics and race against athletes who don't have disabilities. So he trains really hard. And after about five years of waiting for approval from the Athletics Foundation, he's finally officially allowed to compete against non-disabled athletes.
Chapter 3: What was the significance of Pistorius competing in the London Olympics?
So he goes and he competes in the London Olympics. Now, he doesn't win any medals that year, but it's still a huge deal because he's the first ever double amputee to compete in the traditional Olympics. And besides, he's still kicking ass. because he goes on to race in the Paralympics that year, and he wins two gold medals and a silver. And so the world loves Blade Runner.
Chapter 4: How did fame and personal life intersect for Oscar Pistorius?
He's a great athlete with a cool story, and at this point, he's got fans, and they're giving him all sorts of catchy nicknames. They call him, like, Blade Runner. They call him the fastest man with no legs. And he even starts getting brand deals with major companies like Nike. Heard of them? So Bro's career is going great. And then it gets better, because Blade meets this woman, Reva.
And Reva is a model, and she's an aspiring attorney. And Blade thinks Reva is foine, and Reva thinks Blade is foine. And eventually, they start dating. And they're a cute couple, and they seem to be really happy together. Until they aren't. Because, as it turns out, Blade's got quite an anger problem. And he's kind of a jerk to Riva sometimes. Like, he often gets mad at her over little things.
Chapter 5: What led to the breakdown of Oscar and Reva's relationship?
Like, allegedly, he can talk about other women he's dated in the past, but if Riva even slightly mentions an ex, Blade Runner flies off the handle. He's that kind of boyfriend. But then, one night, about three months into their relationship, it all falls apart. Because allegedly, they're at Blade's house that night, and they get into an argument. And it gets heated, like really heated.
And they're shouting, and they're screaming at each other, and the fight is so loud that it wakes the neighbors up. And at some point, Riva, she gets scared of him. She gets so scared of him that she runs into the bathroom, and she slams the door, locking herself in there. And Blade, he's pissed. She can't just run away from him like that.
So he goes and he gets his pew-pew and he takes it and he points it at the bathroom door and he pulls the trigger. Blam, blam, blam, blam. He shoots through the door four times and bullets fly through the wood and they hit Reva in her hip and in her arm and in her head. And Riva falls to the floor.
And Blade, he freaks out and he quickly puts on his prosthetic legs and he grabs a cricket bat and he starts beating the bathroom door to break it down. And there, he sees his girlfriend on the floor and she's barely breathing. And ultimately, sadly, poor Riva, she passes away before the ambulance gets there to help her. And so, bam, police arrest Blade Runner and they charge him with murder.
Two weeks later, his case goes to trial. And Blade's attorneys argue, not that he got mad at Reva and unalived her, but that he was woken up in the middle of the night and he thought there was a burglar hiding out in his bathroom. And that's why he rolled up and started blasting. Because yeah, I guess a burglar would just break into your house and then lock themselves in your bathroom.
Anyway, so this trial goes on for seven months with all this evidence being thrown around. And eventually, the judge actually accepts Blade's story that he thought there was a burglar in the bathroom. And the court ultimately finds him guilty, but not of murder, of culpable homicide, which I guess is like manslaughter. but it's a way lesser charge than murder.
But then later the case is appealed and the Supreme Court finds that Blade actually is guilty of actual murder. Either way, Blade Runner is ultimately sentenced to a total of 13 years, five months in prison. Here's what he looks like in real life. And earlier this year, after serving nine years of that sentence, he was released and he's out now. So shout out to South Africa, I guess.
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