Dirty John

Christopher Goffard's LA Times investigation into con man John Meehan became a podcast phenomenon in 2017, hitting #1 on Apple Podcasts within a week. The story — a charming stranger seduces a successful businesswoman, then systematically destroys her life — is so unbelievable that listeners kept checking if it was fiction. It wasn't. The podcast spawned a Bravo TV series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. Dirty John proved that a single, well-told true crime story could cross every media platform.