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.
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Dark Downeast is an audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low.
The Murder of Louise Chaput (New Hampshire)
The Murders Aboard the Herbert Fuller (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Charlotte A. Dunn (Maine)
Sylvia Baker (3 of Spades, Connecticut) from The Deck
The Disappearance of Bryan Nisenfeld (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Roy Weber (Rhode Island)
The Suspicious Deaths of Janet & Stephen Dow (New Hampshire)
The Disappearance of Brenda LaCombe (Massachusetts)
The Murder of George Jodoin (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Jane Britton (Massachusetts)
Introducing The Fall Line: “Sherry or Cheryl” Jane Doe
The Murder of Margaret Pizio (Massachusetts)
The Disappearance of Reina Morales Rojas (Massachusetts)
The Murders of Diane Compagna & Anne Psaradelis (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Bessie Selek (Maine)
The Murder of Rita Curran Part 2 (Vermont)
The Murder of Rita Curran Part 1 (Vermont)
The Suspicious Death of Denise Scott Ramsey (Maine)
The Murder of Angela Belisle (Vermont)
The Murder of Ronald Rogers Part 2 (Vermont)
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