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
so then, of course, my hear was racing and my knees ar shaking just to make the phone call and she just unloaded on me al the details of trouble in th past according to his own mother john had been cheating and stealing and lying for years even lied to tonia about his age, lopped off five years oh, and he had been convicte of cocaine trafficking she said, you know, is he still using drugs? and i said, what so, in something like shock tonia became a sleuth. who was this man i started snooping, and i found everything under my nose all the time evidence of a crimina double life and something else a cedar box full of fentany and some other things that aren t controlled substances she started watching that cedar box. and things did come and go. so now, i thought it s a stash. it s a stash, yeah. was he using his position a a nurse to steal drugs