The story of John Meehan, an unemployed ex-convict posing as a romantic anesthesiologist, first entered the true-crime universe via the viral LA Times Dirty John podcast in 2017, which then became a popular Bravo series starring Eric Bana and Connie Britton.
The handsome 6-foot-2-inch law school dropout reportedly acquired the “Dirty” because of a sex act he requested of his college girlfriends — but he actually did much worse things than that.
After becoming a nurse, he stole OxyContin, and fentanyl to feed his addiction. He faked personal-injury accidents and accumulated a stack of restraining orders thanks to women he charmed, conned, and menaced.
John, 55, met wealthy Newport Beach, Calif., interior designer Debra Newell, 59, on the OurTime dating website.
He said he just returned from a year of dodging RPG’s with Doctors Without Borders in Iraq. In reality, he got out of prison two days before his first date with Debra and was living in an RV park.
John and Debra married in Las Vegas after a two-month courtship, during which he acted as a humble servant, cleaning her condo, cooking her dinner, and driving her to and from work in her Tesla.
He went on to burrow deeply into her finances, stalk her, alienate her children — he sent her daughter Jacqueline a “kill yourself” text — and ultimately demand half of Debra’s multimillion business, Ambrosia Interior Design, and other assets.
The sensational denouement came in 2016, when he used a knife to attack Debra’s youngest...
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