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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The Murders of Malcolm, Elizabeth, and Page Jennings Part 1 (New Hampshire)
The Murders of George and Catherine Peacock (Vermont)
The Suspicious Death of Christine Cole (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Rita St. Peter (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Ashley Turniak (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Rhonda & Cor’an Johnson (Connecticut)
The Disappearance of Ralph Robbins (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Amon Jamiel (Rhode Island)
The Disappearance of Regina Brown (Connecticut)
The Murder of Patricia Scoville (Vermont)
The Murder of Roberta "Bobbie" Miller (New Hampshire)
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)
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