Featuring: The Trials of Frank Carson, Episode 4

Dirty John

L.A. Times Studios

True Crime, Los Angeles Times, Chris Goffard, Society & Culture, News, Christopher Goffard, La Times, Bravo, Los Angeles

4.6 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this special-feature episode, Frank Carson and his co-defendants are accused of a complicated murder conspiracy after a three-year investigation. Among the accused: three cops.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Christopher Gafford.
0:02.4	I'm at work putting together a new narrative series set to drop in the fall.
0:06.8	In the meantime, I wanted to reintroduce you to the Trials of Frank Carson,
0:11.5	the story of a criminal defense attorney who was put on trial for murder.
0:16.4	Thanks for listening, and please rate and subscribe.
0:29.9	Frank Carson.
0:32.9	This is the Mancica Police Department.
0:35.3	Come to the front door.
0:38.6	With your hands up, we have a surfboard.
0:42.4	Frank Carson,
0:47.5	step outside with your hands up there.
0:52.1	They came for him finally in August 2015.
0:56.8	They surrounded the house in Turlock where he was now living. He had been getting ready for some court appearances that morning.
0:59.2	This is the Mansegial Police Department. We have a son for it. Frank Carson.
1:08.8	Carson behaved with characteristic surliness and defiance.
1:12.6	Coming outside to face a swat truck and a street full of high-powered rifles,
1:16.6	he scolded them. He called them jackasses.
1:19.6	He told them they should be ashamed of themselves.
1:22.6	He told them to shut up.
1:24.6	It was a Friday morning at 7 o'clock.
1:27.5	I was in the shower and I could hear all this yelling through a megaphone.
1:35.7	Anyway, I finished the shower and then I put on my clothes quickly and then they were all
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