Joe Rogan has claimed {that a} former visitor on his podcast allegedly “lower a man’s head off” in a ugly New York Metropolis homicide — simply over a month after showing on the present.
The revelation got here throughout Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Expertise,” when Rogan was sitting down with doctor Zach Bush and introduced up his 2024 interview with accused killer Sheldon Johnson whereas mentioning sociopaths inside society.
“We had a man within the studio that lower a man’s head off after the podcast. He killed a man and lower his head off,” the UFC commentator stated.
The 58-year-old podcaster stated Johnson appeared on the present alongside civil rights lawyer Josh Dubin — govt director of the Perlmutter Middle for Authorized Justice, which advocates for the wrongfully convicted — and was sitting proper throughout from him simply weeks earlier than allegedly committing the grisly killing.
“He does the podcast after which afterward goes and visits this man that apparently he had a beef with, kills him, cuts his head off, places him in a [suitcase], like places a wig on, and tries to flee within the hallway via the cameras,” Rogan shared.
Johnson — who was working as a prison justice activist with Dubin on the time — was arrested in March 2024 after cops discovered a human torso in a blue bin and a head stashed in a freezer in a Bronx condo belonging to 44-year-old Colin Small, the NYPD beforehand advised The Put up.
Police have been initially known as to the constructing for a wellness test after neighbors reported listening to photographs and seeing a stranger coming and going from the condo with cleansing provides, the constructing superintendent stated.
Chilling surveillance footage allegedly captured Johnson exiting a sixth-floor elevator, scanning his environment earlier than strolling to the condo and getting into.
He was later seen leaving the condo at round 2 a.m. carrying a blue bin — after being noticed with a mop and a bag crammed with cleansing provides.
Johnson then allegedly returned to the crime scene carrying a blond wig and completely different clothes.
When investigators zeroed in on Johnson and searched his Harlem condo, they found a human arm, legs and a head with a gunshot wound saved within the freezer, in response to CNN.
Johnson was arrested and charged with homicide, manslaughter, prison possession of a weapon and concealment of a human corpse. He pleaded not responsible to the costs.
On the time of his look on “The Joe Rogan Expertise,” Johnson was working as a consumer advocate on the public defender’s workplace in Queens — having been launched from jail in 2019 after serving 25 years for a sequence of armed robberies dedicated in 1999.
Johnson — who claimed he was as soon as a member of the Bloods gang — was arrested and sentenced to a most of fifty years for utilizing a gun to rob a number of males who owed him drug cash.
Whereas in jail, the accused killer stated he determined to “flip his life round” and acquired his GED.
“I made the choice that I used to be going to stroll away and I didn’t care about what the results was,” he advised Rogan. “And I stated to myself, ‘I’ve been doing unhealthy for therefore lengthy. I’m going to attempt to do one thing good.’”
Throughout the interview, Johnson spoke about his private transformation and his work in prison justice reform after being launched from jail.
