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Martinis & Murder

Episode #111: Guests Debra Newell & Laura Richards Talk 'Dirty John'

Martinis & Murder

Oxygen

Serial Killer, True Crime, Documentary, Oxygen Network

4.23.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

John interviews 'Dirty' John Meehan's ex wife, Debra Newell, and Behavioral Psychologist Laura Richards, about the Dirty John case, and why some women fall prey to similarly wired predators.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone.

0:05.0

Hi, guys.

0:06.0

Still recovering from Megan's gift the other day on another shot.

0:18.0

You were like, you made, you couldn't handle it.

0:20.8

Well, I could handle the duckies because they're so adorable and cute.

0:23.6

But Matt was taking a picture of the bat and-

0:25.6

I had to hold it up and I was like, John, can you hold it up?

0:27.8

Cause I had to like, reach across the table.

0:29.0

You're like, no.

0:30.0

I had to look away.

0:31.0

I will say, let's just say for the record that they were ethically sourced.

0:34.0

Yes, that's true.

0:35.0

We should make sure we want to make sure I'm an animal lover, you're an animal lover.

0:38.4

Yes.

0:39.4

Megan's an animal lover.

0:40.4

We don't want any negative like what app they all-

0:43.4

Notice we didn't mention Matt in that list.

0:45.4

Well, yeah, we didn't.

0:46.4

Yeah, but it makes sense that Matt got the bat.

0:48.0

You get the bat, right?

0:49.0

Exactly.

0:50.0

Anyway, Megan, thank you so much for recovering and I can't wait to find out what we're going

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