EPISODE 1 'THE BEST FRIEND'
When reality TV producer Johnathan Walton and his neighbors lose access to their resort-style swimming pool in their Downtown Los Angeles high-rise, they band together to push back against their landlord.
At one of their protest parties, Johnathan meets Mair Smyth, a wealthy Irish heiress with a storied past who is battling some serious demons from her family back in Ireland.
She dazzles the crowd, dropping in like an angel ready to solve everyone’s problems with the pool and beyond. But is Mair really the sweet savior she appears to be?
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EPISODE 2 'THE INHERITANCE'
Johnathan gets a panicked call from Mair from jail...
Her powerful Irish family set her up to make it look like she stole hundreds of thousands from her employer, all so they can torpedo her chances of getting her $25 million inheritance.
Johnathan spends $70,000 trying to help Mair clear her name and help her get what’s rightfully hers.
But one day he discovers "Mair Smyth" is not even her real name. And that's only the tip of the iceberg that forces Johnathan to question everything he thinks he knows about Mair Smyth.
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EPISODE 3 'THE REAL MAIR'
Johnathan discovers that his good will helping his best friend...
was actually a long con: Mair scammed him out of nearly $100,000.
But his story is only the beginning of what’s shaping up to be a laundry list of cons, including credit card fraud, blackmail, and much more.
When police refuse to take his case seriously, Jonathan takes to the internet, writing blog posts warning any future victims, including one in particular: a wealthy SoCal software engineer Mair is dating who has no idea what she has in store for him.
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EPISODE 5 'THE POLITICIAN'
MAIR'S SUGAR DADDY FOR ME PROFILE
This is a screen grab of Mair's Sugar Daddy for Me Profile discussed in Episode 5. She had a slew of married men in Los Angeles paying her a monthly fee for sex. She was a sugar baby. And when these men, these 'SugarDaddies' wanted to end their arrangement; Mair threatened to go to their wives with evidence of their sexual relationship. Each and every guy paid Mair thousands of dollars to not tell their wives.
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EPISODE 6 'THE FAMILY'
This is a picture of Marianne Smyth and her husband (postal worker & greyhound racer) Stephen Smyth.
This picture was taken in Northern Ireland after she returned from Prague where she paid cash for gastric bypass surgery and lost a ton of weight.
This version of Marianne Smyth looks nothing like previous versions of Marianne Smyth.
And that was the plan.
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This is the picture mair submitted with her fraudulent restraining order of a man in her chruch she claimed was johnathan stalking her.
EPISODE 8 'THE TRIAL'
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This is the financial plan Mair wrote up for Bob.
This is what was projected on a movie screen for the jury to see.
See the 11th and 12the row of numbers and the word "Lambo" beside the $450,000?
Mair said she was going to buy Bob's son a Lamborghini once she got her inheritance.
Mair also told Bob about her wealthy Irish family and about a $25 m
BONUS EPISODE - EPISODE 9 'Buddha Noah Knows Best'
Seven months into my exhaustive pursuit of con artist Marianne "Mair" Smyth... I was getting nowhere.
Police told me to stop pestering them. I wasn't sleeping. I was losing my mind and making everyone in my life miserable. So I decided to give up. I decided to walk away. I decided to move on.
But one magical man by the name of "Buddha Noah" managed to put me back on track. And I'm forever grateful for his wisdom and guidance and faith at a time when I had lost all of my own.
Our first bonus episode is LIVE now. It's Episode 9 'Buddha Know Knows Best'
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BONUS EPISODE - Episode 10 'Anatomy of a Con'
In this bonus episode, I analyze the case of con artist Mair Smyth with Tori Telfer, author of the award-winning book Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion.
We talk about the profile of the female con artist, what Telfer has learned from her research on famous con women, why these smart criminals make some of the dumbest mistakes, and how listeners can avoid falling prey to cons themselves.
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