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 Helen Jewett (New York)
The Still Unsolved Murder of Darien Richardson (Maine)
The Murders of Jack & Florence Bettencourt (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Morgan Patten Part 2 (North Carolina)
The Suspicious Death of Morgan Patten Part 1 (North Carolina)
The Murders of Sandra Valade, Pamela Mason & Rena Paquette (New Hampshire)
The Murders of Carrie Moss & Sonya Moore (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Susan Taraskiewicz (Massachusetts)
The Haunted Lighthouses of Seguin & Boon Island (Maine)
The Murder of Judith Flagg (Maine)
The Disappearances of Tina & Bethany Sinclair (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Tammy Dickson (Maine)
The Disappearance of Robert "Bobby" Desmond (Maine)
UPDATED: The Murder of Leslie Spellman (Maine)
A Conversation with Ashley Flowers, Host of Crime Junkie
The Cons of Mair Smith Part 2 (Maine)
The Murders of Dominic Kirmil and Irvin Hilton (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Kenneth Zernicke (Maine)
The Death of Elmer McCurdy (Maine)
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