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A true story about seduction, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival. From Wondery and the L.A. Times. Reported and hosted by Christopher Goffard

When a veteran reporter came across a homicide in a local paper, it led to a con man, a broken-hearted woman and one of the best stories of his career.

Debra Newell is a successful interior designer, She meets John Meehan(Dirty John), a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes : attentive ,available, just back from year in iraq with Doctors Without Borders but her family doesn't like john and they get entangled in an inccreasigly complex web of love, deception ,forgiveness,denail, and ultimately, survivl , reported and hosted by Critopher Goffard