The Hammer Killer: Edward Johnson | World’s Most Evil Prisoners | Forensic Files

prisons in the United States of America house many of the world's most dangerous
and notorious prisoners one of those is Edward Johnson he was brutally beaten beyond
recognition the guy from pretty much the moment he entered the facility was a loose canon he seems to be a complete
psychopath by the very definition of psycho Johnson is a cold calculating killer who
brutally murdered a female friend she was in the bathtub and he had stabbed her to death
he had no remorse whatsoever and he was just proud didn't care we were all sobbing
and he just thought it was funny even securely locked behind bars Johnson's violence continued Mr Johnson is
institutionalized just by the fact that he's been incarcerated essentially his whole adult life and he continued to
reoffend the thing that makes maximum security prisons more dangerous is that the inmates they've already made it up
their minds that they're going to Live and Die in prison Mr Johnson was in a fight with another inmate here at the
prison and lost his eye Edward Johnson is a danger to all staff that are in his immediate area and and his offenders as
well surrounded by dangerous prisoners it is often the prison guards who become targets he brutally killed a correction
officer in Minnesota by bashing his head in with the hammer Edward I think he's the devil I
[Music] do [Music] Minnesota Correctional Facility Stillwater the largest male prison in
the state we're standing outside the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater it's a prison that was built
in 1914 it houses about, 1600 inmates you could have guys in there that have life sentences for
murder uh rape assault all kinds of theft crimes extortion any kind of felony you can think of in on the books
has guys like that at the facility serial murderers are there when it does kick off they go all
the way they they'll attempt to kill you so as you're walking down the hall in the middle of it you have prisoners on
this side prisoners on this side you know three or four levels high it's a scary place to
visit Edward Johnson is notorious within the prison as one of the most dangerous
prisoners Edward Johnson is a very dangerous criminal who has a lengthy History of
Violence he's very cunning and manipulative he has a lack of empathy a lack of remorse all of those personality
traits points to a high level of psychopathy Behind Bars Johnson continued the violent behavior that put
him there he was the kind of inmates that even other inmates stayed away from because of his
behavior they referred to him as somewhat of a wacko and someone they had wanted nothing to do with because he was
potential Dynamite ready to go off I would say Johnson is probably one of the most dangerous prisoners to exist
in the United States absolutely Edward Johnson was born in Chicago in the 1970s into a middle class
family he was the son of two cops Edward and Selena Johnson both worked for the Chicago Police
Department Johnson and his younger sister had a difficult upbringing there was domestic violence
between his parents who by all accounts were generally good members of society although his father struggled with
alcohol abuse mother had tried from what I understand to leave his father many times and had not been successful in
that Johnson's mother filed for divorce in June 1988 and kept custody of the children she was scared and knew that at
some point he might kill her on the 13th of September 1988 Johnson's father broke into the
house and attacked his estranged wife the kids were home at the time and Edward heard a commotion went out and
saw his father beating his mother the father then P tried to push him out of the room but then he could
hear [Music] shots Mr Johnson actually witnessed it and he described his mother's head
bouncing when she was shot multiple times after the shooting the father left the scene and the kids went to a
neighbor's house to report the shooting they later found Edward Johnson Senior dead in a motel room of suicide
shot himself in the [Music] head 12-year-old Edward Johnson and his sister moved to Minneapolis Minnesota
where they were raised by an ant so when it comes to Mr Johnson we really don't know what were the predisposing factors
to help him become this Psychopathic violent criminal however the witnessing as a young child of his father murdering
his mother that had to be extremely traumatic and it also painted a narrative in his head that these are how
relationships with females are supposed to occur this was normal by the time Edward Johnson was 26
years old he had accumulated a couple of assault charges a drug possession conviction and had been in prison
several times in 2002 while free he ran into his friend 22-year-old Brook Thompson my name is Lori Thompson and
I'm the mother of Brook Thompson I was told by her friends that she met him through one of her past
boyfriends who was related to him he was his cousin so she knew him as a friend while she was dating his
cousin in July Brooke asked Edward to help her leave her boyfriend she was in an abusive
relationship she needed to move out and that's when Edward said you can crash with me for a little while you know
until you find another place of your own he said she could crash on his couch while she was looking for another
apartment Brooke and her 5-year-old daughter temporarily moved into Johnson's apartment in the Minneapolis
suburb of Bloomington Brooke wanted to become a pargal she had a great job working at a law firm in Downtown
Minneapolis and she was going to school part-time two nights a week to be a pargal she was Raising her daughter
Taylor and Taylor she was the light of her life unbeknownst to her mother Lori Johnson started getting obsessed with
Brooke and acting possessive she had told her friends he's being kind of creepy and he's acting like my boyfriend
and he's not my boyfriend and he wants to know where I am all the time Brooke became frightened as Johnson became more
threatening there were signs that this something was wrong with this guy and that's right around the time she was
getting ready to leave Johnson decided he wanted to take Brooke to Chicago with him but she refused he took the
rejection badly and threatened to take her against her will it doesn't seem like there's anything he will not do to
get his needs met nothing is a consequence for him on August 13th 2002 Brook planned
her escape and asked her mother to look after her daughter for the night but first she wanted to pick up some
belongings at Johnson's she said I need you to watch Taylor tonight for me that I have to work in the morning
morning and I said absolutely I'd love to take her so we waited and waited and waited and she never showed up that
night I was very worried but I thought well she must have slept in went to bed early I don't I didn't know the next
morning when one of Brook's friends phoned Lori asking for Brooke they both realized something was wrong I called
her work her office and they said she was not in and not called in and that's when Edward
reached out to her to Brook's friend and said um Brooke had to leave and would like me to drop off Taylor with you so
can you meet me Brook's friend agreed to meet Edward outside a grocery store Lori joined them
but she also brought with her undercover police we were inside the grocery store
watching for him and she saw him pull up so she walked out there just as friendly
as she could be you know made Small Talk got Taylor out of the car and walked her
into the grocery store the police immediately took Edward Johnson into custody and started an
investigation the police transported us to the Plymouth Police Department and just brought us into a meeting room and
asked us just to sit tight while they were still looking for Brooke so we waited there for several hours knowing
nothing all we could think of was he must have beat her up they came in and got me and said we need
to speak with you privately and took me into a separate room and told me they found
her and I just said oh God is she okay what's wrong what happened and that's when they told me
she's gone he killed her he ended up stabbing her multiple times every parents worst
[Music] nightmare Edward Johnson had killed Brook Thompson in his apartment Taylor was in the next room
watching TV she heard the whole thing she said he kept hitting mommy's head against the bathroom door and she kept
screaming please stop please stop it was a horrible horrible death but what makes it even more tragic is
Miss Brook's daughter Taylor who was five at the time was home and heard her mother
screaming she was in the bathtub and he had stabbed her to [Music] death so they found
her after being charged with the murder of Brooke Edward Johnson was imprisoned to await trial Edward Johnson was
arrested in 2002 for the murder of his roommate he was housed in the hennipen county
jail in Minneapolis when a person commits a crime out on the streets they get arrested they go to the police
department to get processed and then they'll go to County Jail that's where they'll take away their belongings dress
them out and inmate atire fingerprint them book them and they wait there until they get scheduled to go to
prison while there he punched a deputy in the eye after he was told that he couldn't visit a certain part of the
jail and I think it just sort of speaks to the violent violent behavior that Mr Johnson
has on February 13th 2003 Edward Johnson appeared in court to face second degree
murder charges Edward I I I think he's the devil I do through the whole murder trial in the courtroom he turned around
and he was smiling and smirking and winking at us he had no remorse whatsoever and he was just
proud didn't care we were all sobbing and he just thought it was funny that's a psychopath the only person that showed
up to support him in court was his sister and she actually wasn't there to support him she was there to support us
she came over and spoke with me and apologized on his behalf and hugged me and said just how terrible she felt that
he had done that Edward Johnson was offered and accepted a plea bargain he was sentenced to 29 years for second
degree intentional homicide we were Furious we were not consulted about that I said he took a life he should be in
there for life I don't understand Edward Johnson was sent to Minnesota Correctional facility Still
Water to serve his sentence still water is kind of the focal point of the Minnesota Department of Corrections
that's been the historically been the most problematic in terms of the severity of incidents which occur it's
an old prison it looks like a prison that you might see in the movies you would see the the
bars you walk through and you can see the prisoners at the bars and the clanging of the
bars we're talking about dangerous environment where I mean you've got individuals who have perpetually
sometimes committed violent acts against their peers their neighbors their families correction staff police
officers this is where Edward Johnson was sent in 2003 after he was sentenced to 29 years in prison for the murder of
Brook Thompson he was not a model prisoner he spent a lot of his time while he was here in the segregation
unit over 17 100 days which is really quite a quite a high number for an inmate my name is Shane wary I'm a
correction Sergeant with the Minnesota Department of Corrections I've been in Corrections since 2005 the St water
facility and its peak was housing a lot of offenders think up to the 1620 offenders you'll have guys that will be
in there for 5 years and you'll have guys that will be in there for Life there is conflict between gangs you'll
have skin heads for example you know white gangs and then gangs of color black gangs Hispanic gangs that type of
thing and inmates assaulting each other are common Edward Johnson was no different
while inside he continued his violent behavior in 2004 he was involved in an incident at the prison where another
inmate stabbed him in his right eye ironically and Edward Johnson tried to attack another offender with the
shank uh that offender got a hold of Edward Johnson's weapon and returned fire so to speak and end up stabbing him
in the eye um which he ultimately lost his eye having lost an eye as the result of
a fight with an inmate whether or not he was responsible for starting it was completely irrelevant this was going to
fuel more anger in Mr Johnson Fuel more rage and justify to him that further acts of violence were necessary because
this is all he knows and there was just this hatred by Edward Johnson he had just a great
disdain for you know the people that he deemed to be responsible for the loss of
his [Music] eye I would say that the general consensus was and it wasn't just all
staff it was one particular staff who he felt was responsible cuz the gate was accidentally open when in turn he was
the one that gate opener closed took a weapon and went and assaulted another offender so I think it just goes to
illustrate kind of his way of thinking which is absolutely irrational Edward Johnson had a lot of
anger against the prison and against correctional officers after that incident where he lost the vision in his
eye very early on Johnson probably had this mixed idea about a Authority are they good are they bad are they supposed
to Serve and Protect his father who was a police officer murdered his mother an inmate might want to attack a guard for
numerous reasons they can feel disrespected they can be angered they can be enraged having a psychotic
episode and just have total disregard for life and they don't really need a reason he had articulated that he was
going to get revenge for the loss of his eye often having lost an eye within the
first year of being incarcerated Johnson's record did not improve he was constantly in trouble
when I look at his um discipline record Edward Johnson doesn't look like he was somebody that was trying to improve his
life his criminal activities within the prison system which involves assaults threats weapons disobeying
orders being in unauthorized area see possession of tobacco and uh alcohol too so he was probably using substances
throughout his incarceration as well adding more fuel to the fire Edward Johnson had a growing desire
for Revenge prison staff believed he was a danger to everyone in Stillwater and should be transferred to a higher
security facility some of the threats in prison for correctional officers and for the
inmates is threat of being violently attacked you can get stabbed you can get slashed with a slashing weapon you can
get what's called gas where they will throw some type of substance on you whether it's urine feces blood and you
know they attempt to get you in the face or just jumped jumped by 100 or 200 individuals in a riot or staff assault
when inmate was labeled a problem person who really was a loose cannon a significant risk to other inmates or
cosos they would be transferred to the Oak Park Heights facility which is a facility to have
closer scrutiny of inmates rather than being transferred Johnson was put to work inside the
prison with the hope of Rehabilitation the industry program at the St waterer facility it's just like
You' walk into an industrial complex and they they've got a wood shop they can make wood products to office furniture
upholster if an inmate has a history of disciplinary issues especially threats exacted against uh prison Personnel they
should not be in Industry ever they had access to tools like hammers Sharp Tools the kind of tools
that you would expect like you know in a mechanic shop or in an Industry Facility
where they make products you're talking about potentially people with violent histories that that are in possession
and using like tools that can inflict great Bly harm or death why is this guy out in an
environment where he can have access to these weapons and the opportunity to use
them it makes no sense none at all Johnson had been looking for an opportunity for
revenge and he found one this inmate had been planning the attack in fact s letters to his family telling him much
the same that he was going to assault somebody he' be reading about it soon Johnson went in for the kill he
murdered him with a hammer he attacked him from the back and bludgeoned him to death Edward Johnson was at Minnesota
Correctional Facility Still Water Stillwater prison has got a Gothic kind of victorium look it's the image most
people have of a prison with the bars and open open cell blocks they're behind these metal bars
and you can often hear them yelling or cat calling as you're walking through or banging on the on the metal bars there
had been lots of assaults that have occurred over the years and vicious assaults on staff I mean I'm talking
people have been hospit hospitalized and had to retire early or never came back to work multiple offenders fighting you
know that kind of amplifies the situation I talked with many different Union officials who represent the
correctional officers in Minnesota one of the things that they stressed was there aren't enough correctional
officers working staff at Staffing the prison the ratio from offenders to guards is like unsafe across the agency
I mean you might have four correction staff and a of over 200 offenders now you do the math on that the odds are not
stacked in your favor if they were to choose to do things a certain way by 2018 Edward Johnson had spent
almost 1,700 days in segregation but was allowed to join the Industry Program to
learn new skills with the record that Johnson had in prison the time he spent in segregation which is the jail within
the prison in other words he's not turning his life around he's not changing his behavior he doesn't deserve
to be out in Industry that industry should be reserved for those inmates that are proving that they want to
change their lifestyle change their choices and become a productive citizen there really not a what I
consider to be a solid vetting process for determining who is the best candidates for these
positions the prison officers working at Stillwater were very aware of the potential problems in industry and the
prison as a whole one correctional officer Joseph gum ensured new recruits understood the situation I remember when
I first met Joe gam I was probably within the first few weeks of my career in Corrections back in 2005 and I was
you know just like any other rookie like scared like you hear all these stories stay away from this person this person's
Cool Joe was the kind of officer that would be respected by inmates staff and the public he did his job he did his job
appropriately and respectfully he was the kind of officer that if if there was something that the
inmate requested and he could do it and it was within the guidelines of the SOP would do it where others may not they
might say I don't have time to deal with you Joe would take care of that throughout his career he he bounced
around to different places throughout the facility working in like the education unit where the offenders go to
school and then um as well as out into the industry area too he was just always that guy that you could go to but he
also wasn't afraid to stand up for what was right he was very concerned about himself and his fellow employees and he
had actually said and I quote is it's going to take one of us to die before there's any significant
change since losing his eye Edward Johnson had been searching for an opportunity to get revenge and he found
one on July 18 2018 and I was working that day I cover the Minnesota Correctional
Facility correctional officer G was working there that day he was in the industry building Edward Johnson was
also in Industry that day still blaming the prison system and guards for the events which left him blind in one eye
he targeted officer gum and work Johnson he just carried himself in a different way he was like quiet kind of almost
like in a pink panther sneaky kind of way and it just always kind of gave me goosebumps a little bit cuz he just the
way he carried himself Mr Johnson came up behind him and really unprovoked just started
smashed him on the head with a hammer Joseph G he was alone there were no other cos's there and uh Johnson got
access to him and then proceeded to bludgeon him to death with a hammer and he stabbed him to death with a tool that
he had made in industry I knew something bad had happened but I wasn't exactly sure what that was um
within probably a half hour of that um some administrators started kind of pouring into my office like they
normally would on any other day cuz we just kind of talk and joke around but there was just like a different look
about them a lot of them were looking at the floor and I just I knew something didn't feel right well one of them God
bless his soul pulled me out of the room and told me what had happened other anation did try to step
in but by the time they they got in there this was very quick you see he was killed quickly and then he fled and
barricaded himself in a room the officers that responded first they had to get through
the barricade and one officer stated that he didn't recognize Joel I think I found out that it was
Johnson that murdered Joe it was like a few hours after when everything started hitting the media know I'm knowing who
Johnson was my entire career up until that point so I definitely recognized that I knew I knew the name and
everything like that it was shocking this was national news this was the first time in the state of Minnesota
that a correctional officer had been killed by an inmate so it was just unheard of I mean it was just very
upsetting and uh very disturbing shortly after the attack Johnson was charged and later pleaded
guilty to the murder of Joseph gum I don't think I need to tell you that when Joe died he was all alone
something Menor stab knew and something the criminal uh who killed Joe knew also
according to the 2018 investigation file an inmate told investigators that gam should not have been left alone in the
prison's metal shop with dozens of prisoners officer gum had only a radio pepper spray and handcuffs when Johnson
attacked him he's a coward he attacks from behind he attacks the weaker and very difficult to talk
about I like many other people would like to go toe to- Toe with them that man put it that
way there should never be a staff that's by themselves in a shop with inmates with potential weapons such just that to
me is a [Music] no-brainer as far as Edward Johnson was concerned he had taken out his revenge
on the exact day that Joe was murdered was the 14-year anniversary of the date that this man had been assaulted by
another inmate and lost the vision in his right eye it wasn't just a coincidence that the day that he killed
Joe it seems clear that this man had a vendetta after a turbulent 16 years in prison for the murder of Brook Thompson
42-year-old Edward Muhammad Johnson have been planning to attack prison staff why
was Joe the target when you know there's staff that are not liked by inmates why not one of them
well then you come to realize inmates are opportunists they take an opportunity of the situation and Joe was
in that situation he was in that uniform that made him the target there was no evidence that Joe
gam had any issues with Johnson nothing nothing zero no evidence whatsoever when you think about
Psychopaths and people who engage in this high level violence they don't have long what we call consequential
thinking they typically engage in what serves them in the moment so if Johnson wanted to kill that officer if he was
angry if this is the only way he knows how to deal with emotions he was going to deal with those emotions by
murdering the family and friends of Officer gum we devastated anyone you've talked to about
correctional officer G will tell you knew what a kind soul he was and I'm not sure you would hear that about every
correctional officer but in certainly in this case it just makes it incredibly heartbreaking I was mad as well as
grieving I was really mad I still am still am mad should have never happened in 2018 immediately after
murdering prison officer Joe gum Edward Johnson was finally transferred to high security prison Oak
Park Heights so in the case of Edward Johnson utilizing a hammer to brutally murder a correction officer that's
fairly rare because inmates that have access to those type of Weaponry whether it's a
hammer behind the work change wall or knives inside of a culinary kitchen the inmates in there are usually
privileged privileged to be working in that area so they don't want to mess up their
opportunities when an inmate was labeled a problem person who really was a loose
cannon they would be transferred to the Oak Park heits facility o park heits facility which is
our supermax facility which when it was built was the mely supermax facility in Florence
Colorado the Oak Park Heights Prison would which is just about 5 miles from the Stillwater prison is a very
different experience if when you are there it's very quiet each inmate has their own cell and the cells are they're
big metal steel doors that slide and and slide into place uh so it's a very different experience as as from visiting
the Still Water prison Edward Johnson had committed the worst possible crime in prison murdering an officer now all
the officers feared for their lives we always knew that there was a possibility that any one of us could be
killed in the line of duty but it was never like a on the Forefront of our thinking I was in complete shock kind of
a little bit of denial at first until it started kind of hitting the waves uh on
the media and it was like you know a reality and yeah it was just it's still hard to believe that it
happened officer gum was the first correctional officer killed in the state of Minnesota most of the staff that
worked with him and most of the staff throughout the department were infuriated because it could have been
prevented the reports that officers had written for concerns of the safety in that environment that Joe was killed in
were not considered well uh the governor was very responsive and it was obvious he felt terrible about what happened the
commissioner for the doc was responsive also their their own agency went after him really
hard but the DLC fought that claiming an essence of the inding Rocks after Joe gam was murdered the
prison went into lockdown I believe it was 3 weeks yeah that was definitely one of the most struggling times um when the
offender population was locked down and some of the things that we had to listen
to them saying and there were some offenders that were legitimately like upset about it too
which I at that point in time I found it pretty I guess I never looked at them as
having empathy but I I think I've seen some empathy after that even um from the offender population there were other
guys that would sit there and yell stuff at us from their cells we call them cell
Warriors they the guys that are way up on a tier off to the side and they're yelling stuff at you and you know you
guys should learn from your friend and the can happen again and things like that that they would say so we were
working on that on July 26th 2018 a funeral was held for Joe gum thousands of correctional officers and
dignitaries came in from all over uh the United States and Canada to be there present it was in a moving moving
ceremony Jo's funeral it was like nothing I had ever seen it was full police honors so
you know 21 gun salute there were agencies from around the country that came it was a media spectacle there were
helicopters flying over the cemetery there was just a lot going on it was it was a lot to
process our chaplain from the facility officiated uh his service so there's just kind of a lot of kind of
a lot of emotion with just seeing how shattered everybody was and just the outpouring of support that the agency
and the people in the agency and his family and everybody received it was just completely
overwhelming Joe was not married at the time he had a girl from in Chicago but the state really had some really nice
ceremony for his death I remember being at one where they handed his mother a a flag which is really
poignant the family took it really hard especially when they found out the circumstances and learned about the
history of this guy and that his death easily could have been [Music] prevented in 2018 before Johnson went to
trial for the murder of Officer gum a hearing was held I covered Johnson's first appearance in court at the
Washington County District Courthouse in Stillwater it was a few weeks after the
murder occurred he appeared behind bulletproof glass he was flanked on both sides by uh deputies from the Washington
County Sheriff's Office he normally wears an eye patch to cover his eye because he's missing an
eye but he did not wear his eye patch that day and just stared directly into the public Gallery area basically
throughout the entire proceedings um and it was just it just was unsettling this guy's a major league
criminal he's a psychopath he's probably a misogynist a narcissist you know I mean this guy this
guy has the whole gamut I would say that Edward Johnson had a look about him I'm something that
I remember even before I was brand knew and I think part of it was the fact that
he didn't have an eye one of his eye was were missing so he was always kind of distinguishable in that respect but he
just had a certain pose about him in the way that he carried himself he he just had this look to him like I I've never
seen with anybody else before dozens of friends of GS um and crial officers attended all of the Court
hearings um through the through the months after and they all wore matching t-shirts that said you know Joseph gum
7818 End of Watch blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God
it was just incredibly moving after Joe gam was murdered I designed a t-shirt design
which is state of Minnesota with silver Li through it and then uh some scripture on the back
of it and um I kind of collaborated with a local t-shirt design company in the Twin Cities and they agreed to give
percentage of the proceeds raised to his family and I think we raised $35,000 Johnson was charged with
first-degree murder of a correctional officer and first-degree premeditated murder he was indicted by grand jury in
August of 2018 [Music] while he awaited trial Johnson continued to be held in Oak Park
Heights the murder happened in 2018 but the case actually wasn't slated to go to
trial until 2020 and in fact toward the end of 2020 uh there was a lot of legal wrangling on on both sides it sometimes
just does take that long to go to trial in in Minnesota um but in this case right before he was to go to trial Mr
Johnson decided to plead guilty when Johnson killed officer gum he was just four years short of being released on
parole but now he would remain securely Behind Bars we are so incredibly sad for that
family my heart breaks for them too they went through it we went through he was not a changed man for the
better that's for sure I am absolutely relieved he'll never be out world's a safer place with him
behind bars it's for sure he would be a really bad threat to society if he ended up back there's no
question in my mind he would reoffend and kill somebody sure no question especially a
woman I will never ever ever forgive him I will never forgive Edward she was a vibrant beautiful wonderful person
with a kind heart and he took her away from us and he took her away from her [Music]
daughter in October 2020 Johnson was given a sentence of life in prison without parole and was transferred to a
supermax federal prison in Colorado known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies Jose sisters attended every
hearing they never missed a one they had to take time off work and make arrangements but they would never ever
miss one of the the court hearings they were they were right there and every hearing was emotional
you know to bring it all up again and then to still it took a long time before there was finally Justice served so it
was a very very difficult period for the for the family I feel like Joe's been pushed under the rug everybody's sorry
for what happened nobody wants to take responsibility and for us we're still fighting for justice for Joe he was
brutally beaten beyond recognition and for somebody to finally admit that somebody didn't do their job
and it cost Joe to lose his life after Mr Johnson was convicted of murdering this innocent correction
officer he ended up being transferred to a supermax prison the reason that's interesting is because supermax prisons
really house the absolutely most dangerous inmates in the country and so it just points to how Mr Johnson was not
somebody who was just going to engage in crimes in the community he displayed that he was not only going to engaged in
crimes in prison but odds are that even after he was convicted of murdering the ction officer he was going to continue
to engage in crimes which required him to be housed in a supermax prison there was no other
option I heard he was at Florence and that's it I don't that kind of turned the page on that whole thing once he was
sentenced and he was out of here what I've read and seen over the years forence is kind of about the kind of the
epitome of supermax prisons um within the United States he'll be in prison the rest of
his life and he'll always be a threat wherever he's at Whoever has interaction with him
whether it be the nurse the minister the staff visitors he'll always be a [Music]
threat [Music]

Edward Johnson’s turbulent childhood led him on a dark path to prison after he brutally murdered his female friend. Despite being locked up, Johnson’s passion for blood and violence only flourished behind prison walls. World’s Most Evil Prisoners is a chilling exploration of the terrifying offenders sentenced to a lifetime behind bars. Locked away, yet still driven by their twisted desires, these inmates delve into acts of torture, abduction, and homicide. Prepare to confront the criminals from the darkest facets of humanity.

Brief Summary

Edward Johnson, a violent inmate, murdered correctional officer Joseph Gum after previously killing his friend Brooke Thompson.

Key points

The Brutality of Edward Johnson. Edward Johnson, a cold-blooded killer, brutally murdered his friend without remorse.
Life in Stillwater Prison. Stillwater prison is notorious for housing dangerous criminals like Edward Johnson.
A Traumatic Childhood. Johnson witnessed his father's murder of his mother, shaping his violent future.
The Murder of Brooke Thompson. Johnson killed his roommate Brooke Thompson, shocking her family and friends.
Johnson's Violent History. Johnson's history of violence continued even while incarcerated, making him a danger.
The Tragic Murder of Officer Joe Gum. Officer Joe Gum was brutally murdered by inmate Edward Johnson, marking a tragic first in Minnesota.

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He’s the devil.

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