Demie Johnson, WFTV.com

Demie Johnson, WFTV.com

Reporter

Demie Johnson joined WFTV Channel 9 in July 2022. She spent the first several years of her career in Indiana, which is also her home state. Her first job in television was at WLFI in West Lafayette, Indiana, where she covered the well-known Delphi, Indiana, double homicide case. From there, she moved on to WISH-TV in Indianapolis. While in Indianapolis, Johnson continued to cover the Delphi case and broke several other stories that gained national attention. Johnson was later awarded for that coverage. She also covered multiple stories about the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse investigation of former team doctor Larry Nassar. Johnson grew up on Lake Michigan in Michigan City, Indiana, which is near Chicago. She graduated from Ball State University with a double major in journalism and telecommunications. Johnson was a long time competitor in Miss USA and Miss America organization pageants. She was a top 10 and top five finalist in the Miss Indiana pageant several times. In her free time, Johnson loves to run 5Ks, try new restaurants and sing.

Latest Headlines by Demie Johnson

King tides batter Volusia County beaches: Walkways gone, sand swept away

Volusia County's iconic coastline from Ponce Inlet to Daytona Beach is battered by days of king tides and rough surf, leaving debris-strewn sands, a shattered jetty walkway, and vanished protective dunes. Locals decry delays in multi-million-dollar repairs as beach safety urges caution amid ongoing hazards.


Volusia County families speak out on massive school trip fraud scheme

Victims of what Volusia County detectives are calling a massive fraud scheme involving a school trip to Europe are speaking out. Investigators are working with law enforcement in Massachusetts to arrest a man accused of taking money from more than 100 Seabreeze High School students for a senior trip that never happened.