Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Grandma is a Murderer - The Lois Riess story
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Lois Riess is a killer grandma.
Chapter 1: Is your grandma capable of murder?
Is your grandma capable of murder? Are you sure about that? So this woman, let's call her grandma. And grandma has a problem. She has quite a gambling addiction. Like she's in and out of local casinos, losing a ton of money. From what I read, she's lost a minimum of a hundred grand playing slot machines, which is all her money. So she's in a lot of debt.
Chapter 2: What led grandma to commit murder?
Now, Grandma is married to this man, who we'll just call Grandpa. And one day, she and Grandpa are at home, and I guess she needs more money, or maybe she's just ashamed to tell Grandpa that she's in so much debt from gambling, it isn't really clear. But Grandma suddenly gets a pew-pew, and blam, blam, she unalives Grandpa.
Chapter 3: How did grandma cover up her crime?
Then she goes to the employees of the worm farm that they own and she tells them that grandpa won't be coming into work for a while because he's been feeling sick. Now this is supposed to buy her some time before people start getting suspicious. Then she continues living in her home while grandpa's body is there decomposing. for a whole ass 11 days.
Chapter 4: What was grandma's escape plan?
Then grandma embezzles about 10 grand from grandpa's business account and she flees, driving away in his Escalade. So now grandma's on the run, but she's a gambling addict. So as she drives from Minnesota to Florida, along the way, she's stopping at casino after casino. And as she's driving, she comes up with this crazy plan to escape the law. She's gonna find someone who looks
kind of like her, unalive them, and steal their identity. Now eventually grandma arrives in Fort Myers, Florida and there she decides to go to a local bar and at the bar she spots a woman who kind of looks like her, kind of. This woman, Pam. And grandma sits down and she orders a drink and she strikes up a conversation with Pam and she and Pam really hit it off.
Chapter 5: Who is Pam and what happened to her?
So they keep drinking and chatting and eventually they're like best friends. Like one night they hang out at Pam's condo that she rented, the next night they go out to a brewery, and on one of those nights, Grandma goes back to Pam's condo with her, and once they're alone, she pulls out her pew-pew that she brought, and blam, blam, she shoots Pam, unaliving her.
Chapter 6: How did grandma steal Pam's identity?
The next morning, Grandma goes back to Pam's condo, and she calls the front desk from there, and she pretends to be Pam, and she asks them to extend her stay for a few nights, and this is going to buy her a little time to get away. Then she combs through all of Pam's stuff, taking any clothes she likes, cash, credit cards, Pam's ID, and she loads everything into Pam's car and steals her car.
Chapter 7: Where did grandma go after stealing the identity?
And they actually got security footage of that. And from there, she drives from Florida all the way over to Texas, South Padre Island. And of course, she stops at a bunch of casinos on the way, because, you know, she's got to hit up those slots. Regardless, she ends up on South Padre Island. And there, Grandma's on a mission to find another lookalike to steal their identity again.
And pretty quickly, she finds one. She's at a local restaurant and she spots her next target. This woman, Bernadette. And so Grandma approaches her and they start chatting and drinking and hitting it off. And they have so much in common, what a coinkydink! And just like Pam, Bernadette is just happy to have made a new friend.
And so she and grandma, they get drinks the next night and grandma stays over at Bernadette's. And the next morning they have breakfast together and then they make plans to meet up again in a couple of nights for dinner. But shady ass grandma is about to unalive her too. But here's what Grandma doesn't know, though.
Back in Minnesota, Grandpa's employees and coworkers at the worm farm, they hadn't heard from him in a while. So police end up going to his house to do a welfare check, and they find his body. Now, separately from that, in Florida, at the hotel, police find Pam's body. Now, at this point, they know these two murders are connected.
They also know that Grandma is the one who did it, because she used the same pew-pew in both murders. So they launch a nationwide manhunt looking for her. Now, you know how Grandma really likes to go to casinos? Well, all those casinos she gambles at, they all have tons of security cameras.
so police are able to get CCTV footage of her, plus her banking activity, and this helps them track her down to South Padre Island. Meanwhile, this story is getting tons of news coverage.
Authorities say that Lois Reese may be targeting women who look like her so that she can steal their identity.
And they start posting Grandma's photo all over the news. So right before she's supposed to meet up with Bernadette so she can unalive her, Grandma's sitting at a local bar having a drink. And there, the manager of a restaurant next door to the bar recognizes her from her picture being on the news and they call police.
Minutes later, US Marshals along with the local police, they swoop in and they surround her and bam, they finally arrest her. This is actually security footage of her being arrested at the bar, but it's kind of hard to make out. Regardless, here's her mugshot. And grandma ends up pleading guilty and she gets two life sentences. Grandma's be crazy sometimes.
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