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.
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The Disappearance of Ellen Choate (Maine)
The Murder of Robert McKee (Maine)
The Disappearance of Judith Leo-Coneys Part 2 (Vermont)
The Disappearance of Judith Leo-Coneys Part 1 (Vermont)
Inside the State Police Unsolved Homicide Unit (Maine)
The Murder of Dorthea Burke (Maine)
The Disappearance of Russell Bean (New Hampshire)
The Wrongful Conviction of Isaac Knapper (Maine)
UPDATE: The Murder of Sophie Sergie (Alaska)
The Murder of Lila Drew (Maine)
The Disappearance of Jesus De La Cruz (Massachusetts)
The Disappearance of Kitty Wardwell (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Shawn O'Brien (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Sophie Sergie Part 2 (Alaska)
The Murder of Sophie Sergie, Part 1 (Alaska)
The Murder of Douglas J. Parent (Maine)
The Murder of Sean Conway (Maine)
The Murder of Jason Bass & Disappearance of Adam Emery (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Katherine Murphy (Maine)
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