Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders Audiobook (Free)

A collection of paper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Occasions reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the strike podcast as well as the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.

Since its launch in fall 2017, the “Dirty John” podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded a lot more than 20 million times, and can soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The storyplot, about Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders which also went as a print series in the LA Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its article writer, Christopher Goffard. More than two decades at papers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly within the shadowy, unseen sides of society. This reserve gathers together for the first time “Dirty John” and the others of his very best work.

“The $40 Lawyer” provides an inside account of a public defender’s rookie year in the legal trenches. “Framed” provides an unblinking chronicle of suburban mayhem (and happens to be being developed by Netflix being a film starring Julia Roberts). A guy wrongly imprisoned for rape, train-riding runaways in like, a Syrian mother forced to keep her children in order to save them, a youngster who matures to become cop as a means of honoring his murdered sister, another young man who struggles with the data that his dad is on death row: these stories reveal the complexities of human nature, showing people at both their most courageous and their most flawed.

Goffard shared in the LA Times’ Pulitzer Prize for Public Services in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature composing. This collection—a must-read for followers of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfiction—underscores his popularity as you of today’s most primary journalistic voices.