Episode
Don't Marry This Guy // The Randy Roth Murder Story
- Published
- Jun 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 487
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/episodes/don-t-marry-this-guy-the-randy-roth-murder-story/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ray-william-johnson-true-story-podcast-7212041/don-t-marry-this-guy-the-randy-roth-murder-story.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Randy Roth was a Washington state mechanic who married and murdered women to collect lucrative life insurance payouts. He famously caused the death of his fourth wife in a staged 1991 Lake Sammamish drowning. An investigation into this incident and the 1981 fatal cliff fall of his second wife ultimately exposed his deadly scam