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MURDERISH

Best of MURDERISH: E9 "Tonia Bales, Dirty John's First Wife"

MURDERISH

Cloud10

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

43.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Murderish, I interview John Meehan’s (AKA Dirty John) first wife, Tonia Bales. You might remember Tonia from the wildly popular Dirty John podcast, where listeners got to hear recorded phone calls between John and Tonia. John’s threats to Tonia during those calls made the hair on my arms stick up. During the interview, Tonia talks about those phone calls and her motivation behind staying on the phone with John even after he threatened her. Sponsor: RoBody: Visit ro.co/MURDERISH to get your first month for $99, and $145/month after that Let’s get social: Follow MURDERISH on Instagram & TikTok @MurderishPodcast. We’re also on Facebook. Visit murderish.com to learn more about Jami and the podcast. You can also buy merch & sign up to become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic Patreon member and get access to exclusive perks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

In this episode of Murderish, I'm bringing back an interview I did with Dirty John's first wife, Tanya Bales.

0:36.0

You might remember Tanya from the wildly popular Dirty John podcast, where listeners got to hear recorded phone calls between Tanya and John Mehan.

0:44.4

During the interview, Tanya talks about those phone calls and her motivation behind staying

0:49.2

on the phone with John, even after he threatened her.

0:52.3

This is a fascinating and chilling interview with the woman

0:55.8

who was married to John Mehan before anyone knew that he'd turn out to be an extremely dangerous

1:01.5

person who ultimately lost his life after attacking

1:05.2

terra-newel. I found Tanya to be open, honest, level-headed, and overall a very

1:11.2

strong woman. She definitely has a story to tell,

1:14.6

and I'm happy she's allowing us the opportunity

1:16.7

to hear it here on Murderish.

1:18.8

I thoroughly enjoyed talking to Tanya,

1:20.8

and I think you'll enjoy hearing her perspective too. So I won't delay it

1:24.8

any further. Here's my interview with Tanya, it's Jamie. How's it going? Hi Jamie, how's it going?

1:38.0

Hi Jamie.

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