It's possible to read Dirty John as a horror story about online dating. In October 2014, Debra Newell and John Meehan met through a dating app. Scariest man I’ve met in my 70 years."īefore watching Dirty John, here's a basic rundown of what you need to know. You know that people like him really do exist and one has just come into your orbit. "'I am sitting here in the presence of evil incarnate,'" Dzialo recalled thinking in the Dirty John podcast. When Meehan first walked into lawyer John Dzialo's Santa Ana office, Dzialo was struck by a thought. Evil is a big word-but when people who knew him speak about Meehan, that's the word they reach for. Ultimately, Dirty John is a character study in evil. Debra's daughters, Juno Temple and Julia Garner, play two young women who try to save their mother from her own decisions. Connie Britton is Debra, trusting and vulnerable. Eric Bana plays the ultimate swindler, John Meehan. Unwittingly, Debra Newell and her family were Meehan's latest target.Īs of November 25, 2019, this harrowing true story-wrapped up in the good looks and good lighting of prime-time TV- is available to stream on Netflix. Meehan had a history of manipulating and abusing women, with a criminal track record to show for it.
Or maybe she overlooked Meehan's strangeness because, after years of conning, Meehan was an expert at making people do precisely that. So maybe that's why Debra overlooked Meehan's slightly strange behavior, like showing up for their formal date inexplicably wearing hospital scrubs, or saying all his clothes had been stolen. The owner of a successful interior design business and the mother of four children, Debra had everything-except romantic love. When 59-year-old Debra Newell first met John Meehan in October 2014, she thought she found "the One." Or, if not "the One," then at least a nice guy to make up for the string of online dates and four failed marriages that came before him. The eight-episode show features an all-star cast, including Eric Bana, Connie Britton, and Jean Smart.Based on a true story, Dirty Johnexplores how con-man John Meehan preyed on Debra Newell and her family.Dirty John originally aired on Bravo in 2018 and is now available to stream on Netflix.She disclosed that she was able to recount the distressing events so "matter-of-factly" because she's been having "lots of therapy". Speaking about the visible scarring after the assault, Terra said: "I'm OK, I didn't have any physical damage per se, except for this one an inch deep in my arm, and in my chest two centres deep." Police at the scene of the crime said John had what they described as a "kidnap kit" on him - a backpack with camouflage duct tape, cable ties to bound hands and feet, and six knives. She most recently appeared on Megyn Kelly Today to speak of her ordeal, recalling the attack by John and suggesting that he might have been planning to kidnap her to extort more money from her mother. "Here you will get to know me as I share about travel, music, hiking, my dog, everything dogs, zombies, fashion, PTSD, and other interests."
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"You may have heard my name from an article, podcast, or TV show, but you don't really get to know the real me from those," Terra writes in her About Me section. She grabbed his knife and stabbed John 13 times - in his shoulder, his triceps, his back. Although she'd had no self-defence training, Terra had "studied TV violence with uncommon intensity" from shows such as CSI, Dexter and of course, The Walking Dead.
On August 20, 2016, Terra finished up at the Newport Beach dog kennel where she was working at the time and headed home with her dog Cash to her apartment in the affluent Orange County suburbs - only to be ambushed by a knife-wielding John in the parking lot of her condo.Īs he stabbed her, she instinctively put her arms up to protect her chest, before biting him, pushing him, and kicking at him until the pair began wrestling and John ended up on the ground. As Debra attempted to escape the wreckage of her marriage, Terra and her sister Jacquelyn suspected he was also surveilling them. Plus, John was isolating Terra's mother from her friends and family, an indicator of manipulative and controlling behaviour tantamount to domestic abuse.Īfter hiring a private detective, the Newell family began to unravel terrifying truths about John - which included the fact that he recently been released from prison. Eric Bana as John Meehan Bravo // Getty Images
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