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 Crystal Perry (Maine)
BONUS: The Murders of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki (Massachusetts)
The Murders of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Robert Joyal Part 2 (Maine)
The Murder of Robert Joyal Part 1 (Maine)
The Disappearance of Tammy Lynn Belanger (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Darien Richardson Part 2 (Maine)
The Murder of Darien Richardson Part 1 (Maine)
The Murder of Mattie Hackett (Maine)
The Murder of Beverly Polchies (Maine)
The Annie C. Maguire Shipwreck at Portland Head Light
The Murders of Luella Blakeslee and Debra Lee Horn (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Susan Randall (New Hampshire)
SOLVED: Janet Brochu & Geraldine Ann Finn (Maine)
The Murder of Richard S. Bellittieri (Maine)
The Murder of Debra Dill (Maine)
The Disappearance of Anneliese Heinig (Maine)
The Disappearance of Ludger Belanger (Maine)
The Disappearance of Kurt Newton (Maine)
The Disappearance of Kim Moreau Part 2 (Maine)
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