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Dirty John Los Angeles Times | Wondery
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4,7 • 142 Bewertungen
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All episodes are available for free, with remastered ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers.Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. But her family doesn’t like John, and they get entangled in an increasingly complex web of love, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival. Reported and hosted by Christopher Goffard from the L.A. Times.
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The Real Thing
Debra Newell, an interior designer in Southern California, meets John Meehan on an over-50 dating site. His profile looks exciting: Anesthesiologist, divorced, Christian. She falls in love fast. But her children dislike him and warn her that his stories don’t add up. A psychologist advises Debra to set firmer boundaries with her kids, saying she has a right to be happy.
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Newlyweds
After an intruder appears in John and Debra’s livingroom, John insists that they install security cameras. Debra begins to wonder whether he is spying on her. Her nephew, Shad, looks into John’s background and confronts him with what he finds. Debra’s vision of an idyllic marriage is shattered when she discovers a stash of paperwork in John’s home office.
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Filthy
Debra grapples with the question, “Who did I marry?” The story of John’s mysterious past unfolds through the eyes of his sisters, his law-school housemate, his ex-wife, and an Ohio cop who hunted him. The origins of John’s nickname are revealed. Bed-ridden in an Orange County hospital, he pleads with Debra to take him back.
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Forgiveness
Debra is in hiding, living out of hotels and disguising herself with a wig. Debra fears she will meet the fate of her sister Cindi, who was killed by her husband as she tried to escape a bad marriage. John has explanations for the accusations against him. He weeps and apologizes. Three decades earlier, that had helped Cindi’s killer walk out of prison.
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Escape
Episode 5: John finds a lawyer and plots to unleash a blizzard of lawsuits against his enemies, with the aim of proving to Debra that he is the victim, in case after case. The lawyer believes her life is in danger. As her painful isolation from her family deepens, she secretly plans her escape from the marriage.
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Terra
Jacquelyn and Terra Newell suspect that John has been watching them. When Jacquelyn tells her mother that he is in town, her mother believes she is mistaken. Jacquelyn warns Terra to carry her pocket knife. But Terra is preoccupied by a country-music concert, and she is watching for the wrong car.
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Captivating podcast
I find it a bit disturbing that Debbie is still giggling when talking about the guy that tried to kill her daughter. It‘s interesting to see how many people around her have raised questions about him really early on and how hard she had to work stay in denial.
It‘s an interesing inside into what people are will to accept for the illusion of love. Her still giggling and seemingly not understanding that she was just a means to and end for him is sad as it could land her in the same situation again.
Well researched, captivating
Well researched, captivatingly told and sensitive to the important and difficult topics like coersive control, toxic relationships and intimate partner violence (and the normalization of that) without sensationalizing it. Especially the Bonus Episode which features the strong and very courageous women who helped shine light on these topics brought all the themes together and helped strengthen the message and lessons learned from this horrible case. A must-hear for all who like high quality investigative true crime podcasts. My only wish is that the podcast could have elaborated a little more on the topic of addiction and especially opiod-abuse since although John Meehan seemed to have been a sadistic, evil, dangerous person with no empathy whatsoever, it would have been interesting to research on how the drug abuse and constant need for satisfying the addiction might have contributed to his actions – which he propably would have committed anyway. Especially since opiod-abuse is such a common problem in the U.S. how I learned from the Podcast „Hooked“, which ist also very good.
Extremely exciting, great podcast!
I couldn’t wait everyday to leave work so that I can continue listening the rest. It’s shocking, sometimes I felt really scared walking at night to home and listening. Don’t know why but it made me horrified listening to this whole thing about this man.
There are a lot to take a lesson too. Highly recommend .