This is Pod Crashing Episode 132 with Jonathan Walton host of Queen of the Con.
Imagine waking up one day and realizing your best friend is actually an international con artist on the run from authorities. She has also scammed you out of your life savings. That's what happened to Los Angeles TV producer Johnathan Walton, as he explains in QUEEN OF THE CON, a 10-part podcast series beginning September 30th that explores the life-and larceny-of Marianne Smyth. Johnathan brings listeners along as he recounts his personal history with "Mair," and the investigation that led him to connect all the dots and unmask the more than 40 other victims Smyth had terrorized across the world-everyone from politicians to lawyers to the Irish police and U.S. judges. While Johnathan's dogged pursuit first exposed Smyth's cons to the world and landed her in LA County jail in 2019, he picks up the trail now that she's out on probation in 2020. and likely to start scamming again!