Steve Johnson said he appreciated White’s guilty plea. “This man (Scott Johnson) who once told me he could never hurt someone even in self-defense died in terror,” the brother added. Steve Johnson said in his victim impact statement that, “With a vicious push, Mr. She said she only became aware of a reward when the victim’s brother, Steve Johnson, doubled the sum in 2020. Under cross-examination, Helen White denied she had been aware of a AU$1 million reward for information on Johnson’s murder when she reported her former husband to police in 2019. “I said, ‘It is if you chased him,’” Helen White told the court. “The dumb (expletive) ran off the cliff.” “It’s not my fault,” Scott White allegedly replied. Helen White said she read a newspaper report in 2008 about Johnson’s death and asked her husband if he was responsible.