i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales and this is dateline. i felt like this was the on that i have been waiting for maybe it was too good to b true oh. did he love me or was this all a game a beautiful businesswoman falls for a dashing doctor but her daughters have doubts. i had lots of suspicions. she thinks his fingernail are dirty. this knit does not look to her like the hands of an actua doctor who was this guy? his nickname was dirty john . this woman knew him all too well i started snooping and found everything this reporter made some unnerving discoveries too. he scared a lot of people he swindled a lot of people. the story of his dirty deed riveted the nation in a hi podcast. this is dirty john . but dirty was about to turn dark he s got duct tape, he s go all the tools ready to kidna her. will this mom and her daughters learn the truth in time she was in a panic. she said, i saw john outside i a car. a story ending in sa
john was killed. by the time i took the patient out of the room, i was i tears. yeah i wasn t in tears because he died, i was in tears because i had to tell his children and that made me very sad, t have to tell them. it was awful her daughters, 16 and 21 at the time said they regretted not being able to show him how well they turned out in spit of him and now, debra still struggles with guilt i would have never in m entire life put my kids in fea or in danger that was the last thing on m mind, that he would be going after one of my kids we feel lucky, in a way i feel very lucky i believe terra saved many lives. saved my life, many othe victims. terra was diagnosed wit ptsd she still has some healing t do, but she returned with us t that parking lot