Dirty John - The women who lived the story - Dirty John Podcast

Subscribe to our channel! https://goo.gl/siwbMR Thanks for watching! Please like and share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! John Meehan spent years terrorizing women and manipulating them to obtain money, sex and power. He focused on isolating them from their loved ones. Yet two of the women he abused, his ex-wives Debra Newell and Tonia Bales, have started a cross-country friendship. They spent part of the Thanksgiving holiday together last month. “We belong to an elite club,” Bales joked. “We were the bookends, I was the first and she was the last.” The women spoke at an event Monday night exploring the Los Angeles Times series and podcast “Dirty John,” which told the story of Newell and Meehan’s relationship. Newell’s daughter Terra as well as abuse experts also discussed the story. Debra Newell said she feels guilty for marrying Meehan and endangering her children, but found some solace in Bales’ earlier experience. Bales found out only after 10 years of marriage that Meehan had lied about his age and was addicted to painkillers. #podcasts #wondery #dirtyjohn #latimes #podcast #ChristopherGoffard