Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
TikTok Star Murders His Wife - The Ali Abulaban story
Thu, 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.
Chapter 1: Who is Ali Abulaban and how did he become famous on TikTok?
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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Chapter 2: What was Ali Abulaban's relationship with his wife like?
And this is great news to Anna, like she'll have her old place back with her daughter, and most importantly, without Ali. And so, she moves back in. But here's what Anna doesn't know, though. Sneaky-ass Ali has made a copy of the electronic key to her place so that he can enter it anytime he wants. And it's only a matter of time before he goes crazy again.
And one day, out of nowhere, Anna gets sent a bunch of roses, and they're from Ali. Now, she's done with him, and so she doesn't reach out and say thank you, or that she even got them, nor should she. And this pisses Ali off. And he's apparently been up all night doing Coca-Cola, so he's way out of his mind, and he is just gonna lay into her.
And so he goes over to the apartment, and he lets himself in. But luckily for her, she's not there. And he's like, f*** this, and he just starts trashing the place. Knocking things over, throwing her stuff around, smashing the roses he got her. But then, to make it worse, he takes an iPad that he has. Now this iPad has Discord downloaded on it.
And so he takes this iPad and he hides it in between the wall and the bed and he leaves it on so that it will record audio of anything that goes on in the apartment. He thinks he's going to try and catch her cheating, which it really isn't cheating because they're no longer together. But despite that, then Ali leaves and he goes back to his hotel.
Then, Anna comes home, and she sees that the apartment's been trashed, and she knows it was Ali. And she's shocked, and she's hurt. Like, how could he do this to the place that his own daughter lives in? Now, her daughter will be home from school soon, and Anna doesn't want her to see all this destruction that her dad caused. So she calls a mutual friend of her and Ali's. This guy, Rayburn.
And Rayburn comes over to help her clean up this mess. Meanwhile, at Ali's hotel, he wakes up from his drug nap and he hears Anna through the iPad and he can hear her in her apartment talking with another man. And he just snaps. Another man in the apartment with his wife? He is not going to let this slide. And so he gets his pew-pew.
And then he drives from his hotel to her building as fast as he can. And then, boom, he busts into her apartment. And he immediately sees Anna and Rayburn sitting on the couch. And instantly, blam, blam, blam, he shoots Rayburn. And then, blam, he shoots Anna, too. And, unfortunately, they're both instantly killed.
Unalived and pretty quickly after that police show up and boom Ali is arrested now I don't actually have a mugshot of him But here's a picture of him in jail behind glass now remember Ali wanted to be famous and known for something so he's really upset about how this is gonna affect his acting career and No you weren't. Anyway, he goes to trial and he gets sentenced to life in prison. Good.
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