Before Dirty John was a dramatic TV series on Bravo, it was a podcast hosted by investigative journalist Christopher Goffard (and the podcast was based on the series of articles that he penned for The L.A. Times). This is one of those true tales that seems stranger than fiction, as the saying goes. When interior designer and businesswoman Debra Newell (Connie Britton) met John Meehan (Eric Bana) on a dating site, she had no idea that he was actually a con man (and a dangerous one at that).