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 Disappearance of Kim Moreau Part 1 (Maine)
The Dark History and Demise of Élan School (Maine)
The Murders of Cyrus Everett and Donna Mauch (Maine)
The Murder of Julie Campbell (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Emma J. Turnbull (Maine)
The Murder of Zenovia Clegg (New York)
The Suspicious Death of Patricia Wing (Maine)
The Survival Story of Kayleigh Ballantyne (Massachusetts)
The Disappearances of William Sanborn and Alphonse Cote Jr. (Maine)
The Murder of Mary Catherine Olenchuk (Maine)
The Murders of Stella Bolton & James ‘JJ’ Moore (New Hampshire)
The Murders of Dr. and Mrs. Littlefield (Maine)
The Murder of Sarah Cherry (Maine)
The Murder of Leslie Spellman (Maine)
The Murder of Kathy Frost (Maine)
The Murders of Janet Brochu & Geraldine Finn (Maine)
The Disappearance of Daniel K. Wood Jr. (Maine)
The Murder of Lizzi Marriott (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Sonny Grotton (Maine)
The Disappearance of Pauline Rourke (Maine)
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