Christopher. Just your intro to the case in the OC alone is triumphant. Im locked in. Keeep your stories coming. You tell them like no one can. Thanks.

A fascinating look into California history. I did feel that it’s being dragged out into too many episodes, however. I think it would be better to make each episode an hour so that they feel more satisfying.

I have to Listen Podcasts.

I love his voice. It’s easy to follow. I learned a lot that’s for sure and it’s always interesting and just the way he talks and how he speaks is just immaculate.

I just finished the Dirty John episodes. Debra Newell is the most gullible person I have ever known. It amazes me that she is a successful businesswoman. Unfortunately, she gets it from her mother. The fact that she testified on behalf of her other daughter’s killer is mind boggling. Stupid is as stupid does. They probably voted for Trump. Unbelievable! Great podcast though.

Very well done.

Best reporting Best true crime podcast I’ve listened to

Great story, well told. I hope they produce more series like this.

Love the show! I’m a true crime buff with podcast my favorite medium while on the road. I’ve listened to several stories and have added LA Times to my online news I enjoy their investigative reporting so much despite living in the south. Keep up the great work!

The series digs deep and even if I’m already familiar with a given story, new and interesting details and backstories make for an enjoyable and tantalizing listen. So glad I found this podcast.

Well told, intriguing and gripping. I’d watch this as a documentary or a movie!

This case should be brought to the big screen so everyone can see why the justice system is so broken. It infuriates me watching the DA waste so much time and money on such a frivolous case while slowly torturing and killing frank with their hunt. Just because they hated what he did for s living

These reviews are for Dirty John, but the podcast has been rebranded and is now a ripoff of Crimes of the Centuries, a long established crime and history podcast that has even covered some of the same cases. It seems unsavory to reuse a popular podcast feed to rip off someone else’s work.

I really enjoyed Dirty John but am disappointed that this feed has now been taken over by a completely different podcast that sounds just like so many others right now. I know it’s the same host so I would have loved more content in the vein of Dirty John.

Just listened to the episode of The Dream podcast that does a deep dive into how Dirty John was actually made. It certainly appears that the LA Times and Goddard misrepresented and took advantage of their subjects here. Now I feel a little dirty for being complicit by listening in on a story that in retrospect clearly did not center the victim’s experience.

The storyline is amazing. The narrator and interviewer did a great job. However, the editing and where the ads were placed was horrible. All the ads happened mid sentences. There’s no break to know when an ad is about to come on, it just abruptly cuts off and goes to ad. It’s hard to believe that it’s a Wondery podcast with the poor editing.

I cannot believe Barbara’s delusion towards that psychopath! Was the sex that good to put your entire family at such risk!!!!!

This is like my 3rd time listening to this podcast, so clearly I enjoy it (while agreeing with all comments about the women’s voices and Debra and Arlane’s delusions). But for the love, who edited these security ads literally mid sentence multiple times per episode?! It’s so distracting and could have been done so much better. Cmon Wondery.

Podcast is fine, but how incredibly manipulative and messed up to play home security ads in the middle of a story about stalking!

What’s wrong with this woman.don’t feel sorry for her 🙄🙄so stupid

Honestly, unpopular opinion, but the story telling was slow and okay at best. Dirty John would have been a better book, maybe? The details were great in some areas and excessive in others. The picture was painted that the family was crazy baseline. Terra, clearly is on a lot of psych medicines. The mom is ridiculous, but the grandmother takes the cake. It’s genetic. I honestly think John did a great job of picking his victims because it was obvious from the start. I couldn’t understand why the brother-in-law was even mentioned only to clarify the family is crazy and they have good reason to take meds themselves. He was portrayed as a loser, but honestly where was the 10 years backstory while he was married? He became a nurse and a nurse anesthetist. Do you realize how hard that profession is? I felt like this podcast degraded that profession in a way. There were no stories from his RN days or his CRNA days?!? Just that he lost his license because he did drugs. Why? Why not have an episode dedicated to this era of his life? If you’re going to paint this guy to be crazy then why not interview coworkers at those jobs instead of the dead ends he encountered with other endeavors. I need the full story not the long but skipped over main facts version with fluff. There’s no doubt he had issues but you definitely could have done a better job. I also have questions about the family. What were the professions of the grandmother and sister to John’s last wife (already forgot her name)? Also, you have smart kids but ones a former dog groomer (which sounds like she’s on disability now) and the other helps you in her mother’s office, but dropped out of real estate school because she was embarrassed by John’s harassing her and involving the school? Who cares. I need the background on this family because this dynamic has more to the story than what was told.

This content is great but whoever remixed it royally messed up. Sometimes the ads start literally in the middle of a word.

Great storytelling, but man, is it manipulative to intersperse home security ads while the victims are describing their fear mid-sentence.

Didn’t get through it. Mostly interviews which are difficult to understand and to keep track of who is who. Truly disappointing from this company. There’s a great story here, but presented terribly.

The audio editing on this podcast is *so bad* that I felt compelled to review. Ads are always placed abruptly in the middle of a sentence, and there are 3-4 (very long!) ads per episode. So someone is speaking, then in the middle of their sentence it cuts to a 3-minute ad, then it abruptly cuts back to the rest of their sentence. Makes me hate Simplisafe (the advertiser), even though it’s not their fault. At least once (episode 3 I think?), the audio company promoted themselves on top of the podcast, i.e. two different voices were going at the same time. The storytelling is good, but it’s borderline unlistenable.

The ads abruptly cut into the narrative at random times. The storytelling is too slow. I tried to stick with this to hear the end but couldn’t listen anymore.

I have a Wondery subscription - why am I forced to listen to commercials?! And I’m not allowed to fast forward through them. Not cool, Wondery!!

I subscribe to wondery + and I’m hearing ads.—why? Not my first wondery podcast hearing them either. Needs to be fixed

The podcast is great! But Deb made me want to slam my head in to a wall. How many red flags can you ignore!? And how can you just ignore The kids that are screaming at you to get rid of him? But Here comes Debs Mom! And it all Came full circle! These ladies are walking morons! You have no loyalties to your Children. Thank God the Daughters have a lick of Brains.

Where did that cool music go? There’s ads in very disruptive places. It sounds different and not in a good way. I know because I’ve listened to it many times. Why mess with a really good thing? I can’t listen to it any more. The impact is gone. ___________ Old review: Dirty John was my first podcast experience, which rather spoiled me for other podcasts. Because the medium is based on listening, it will by its own nature, appeal more to some individuals. I fell in love with Christopher Goddard’s unique voice and delivery, which reminded me of a hard boiled detective, in an old black and white movie. The music appealed to me so much I waited for each incidence of music. The daughters’ voices rankled until they took me over with great affection. Deborah’s voice tickled my senses. I just listened to the whole series again, and all the extras, plus I saw the Bravo series.

There’s a good reason this is often rated #1 for Wondery. It’s so much better than most podcasts. Her daughter is my hero.

It’s a well-written podcast and an interesting story. I’d say it could have been a bit shorter. Honestly, if they took out more of the victims’ interviews it may have made me sympathize with them more and helped shorten the length. Skipped the lawyer man. He was putting on the dramatics

I’m sorry but these women are complete morons. Grandma, mom and daughters are flat out DUMB! I truly hope they don’t vote or breed. Debbie deserves to be locked up at the very least and that’s me being nice.

Girl fix your personality..

Terra screamed at the most popular podcast hosts at OF because she and P couldn’t control their jealousy. Then when confronted with her insanity she went full Karen. This woman needs to step away and get some serious therapy.

This podcast is very good however it sounds as if it was edited by a high schooler on an iPhone. People are cut off mid-sentence as it cuts abruptly to a commercial for another podcast. Like another reviewer, I thought I’d accidentally hit the forward button. I thought it must be a fluke but no the entire series is like this. For real? There’s free apps that can edit sound bites better than this. It’s really distracting.

The first time I heard an ad I truly thought I had hit a button somehow and changed podcasts. It cut off in the middle of a sentence and went into the telling of another story. Turned out it was as ad for the newest season of Suspect. Each time there is an ad break it does this. Makes it hard to follow along with that part of the story when it cuts people off.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I enjoyed the story and the way it was told however, it is extremely disappointing when you are listening to someone be interviewed and a commercial abruptly cuts in. I’m not sure who did the editing but it is horrible. Commercials should be inserted at the end of an interview or where there is a natural break not in the middle of a sentence!

This is a series that you’ll be hooked on while listening and then after think, “did that really need to be a series?” There are plenty of con men and jerks out there but this one is portrayed in some good story telling that makes you really hate him and want to make sure he’s punished, and so you’re hooked.

I listened to this podcast when it first came out. It was so interesting and it kept me on the edge of my seat. I recommended it to all of my friends and family! It was by far my favorite podcast series. All these years later I decided to re listen to the series after recommending it to more friends. I’m not sure why but the story seems like it is told differently. It is less exciting and not as interesting as I remember it being. During the Ad break, it says that “this is a special version of dirty John remixed and remastered by salt audio.” I’m not sure how much this new “remixed” version has strayed from the original but it just doesn’t have the same feel as I remember. I think the original podcast version should be brought back for us listeners!

I have to tell you, Deborah‘s family and Deborah herself, honestly, I’m not sure if they’re mentally stable beginning with her mother forgiving the murderer of her daughter and saying she still loved him. I was just floored. I think they’ve all been out in the California sun too long. I understand that forgiveness is a Christlike thing to do but when it comes to your child and the murderer of that child, umm no. and then Deborah takes John back after everything that she knows about him? Can you spell desperate & low self esteem?!?!

I don’t mean to victim blame here but can we please talk about what a moron Debbie is??? And grandma is a whack job. Good grief

This was a very good podcast. I have been with a ” Dirty Filthy Chris” .. got taken to the cleaners and 10 years to extricate myself from him!! Only difference was , I had no support from family or police .. which made it very Hard . Feel like I’m a survivor . There are so many ways that Chris was exactly like John! Unbelievable! Still makes me mad! Once I started listening I could not stop! Thank you

Truly so refreshing to listen to true crime where there isn’t a dead victim. Like I cannot express how nice it is. Anyways I’m glad he is dead :)

We couldn’t make it past 30 minutes. The daughter sounds so spoiled and we couldn’t listen to anymore of it. Might be good if you can get past that??

I’m new to podcasts and I truly enjoyed this series . Kept me coming back for more . Also I almost gave up on apple product as I have many and pay a pretty penny for them all but this series gave me a new perspective maybe apple should thank you .

Love the podcast. They mom pisses me off and I can’t believe Debra. She laughs and giggles the entire time she talks about that psychopath. Oh, he dotes on me so much and takes me wherever I want to go. He cried in church!!! Whatever. Billy served 3!years for executing her sister

Usually wonderly podcasts get an automatic 5 stars, and I usually finish them in a day. They’re well told and always super interesting. This one I kinda felt less interested, and more forced into just sticking with the story. The story was definitely done well and good but nothing comparable to the other wonderly podcasts I’ve listened to.

Honestly, Debra and her mom sound like nice people but also the dumbest people I’ve ever heard explain themselves.

The reporting is good but the casting of Debra as an innocent victim is ridiculous. She puts her children in danger because of her own selfishness. Her only defense could be that she is genuinely very unintelligent but I think she knows better. She never once says out loud that she feels guilty, the podcaster reports it which I think means she never actually expressed any remorse, they had to add it in to make her sympathetic