When Johnathan Walton hosted a wine and cheese night in his Los Angeles apartment in 2013, he couldn’t have known that the event would invite a shark into his inner circle. Flyers he hung up around the building gave off the scent of a helper, a do-gooder, a warrior against injustice. It was like blood in the water.
Johnathan Walton’s story unfolds thousands of miles away from New England, but the woman he knew as Mair Smith began her long career of conning and scamming in her home state of Maine.
This is Part 1: The Con. Part 2: The Convict is out now.
View source material and photos for this episode at darkdowneast.com/thecon
Dark Downeast is an audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low.
The Disappearance of John Lango (Pennsylvania)
The Disappearance of Audrey Groat (Vermont)
The Victims of the Hitch-Hike Murderer (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Gwendolyn Taylor (Massachusetts)
The Suspicious Death of Barbara Ann Ripley (Maine)
The Disappearance of Nadine Mendonça (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Matthew Margolies (Connecticut)
The Murder of Jon Pownall (Maine)
UPDATE: The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray Johnson (Maine)
The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray Johnson (Maine)
The Murder of Jimmy Stone (Connecticut)
The Murder of Patricia Moreno (Massachusetts)
The Disappearance of Ralph Jean-Marie (Vermont)
The Victims of the Last Call Killer (New York)
The Murder of Frederic Alan Spencer (Maine)
The Murders of Laura Kempton & Tammy Little (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Raymond "Butch" Weed (Maine)
The Murder of Anita Piteau, The Huntington Beach Jane Doe (California)
The Murder of Anne "Nancy" Payson Holt (Maine)
The Disappearance of Kristopher Bryan Lewis (Massachusetts)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Ghosts of Dallas
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Going West: True Crime
Crime Junkie
Dateline NBC
Casefile True Crime