john meehan went along. -- >> we went to a courthouse, and just got married before a judge. >> reporter: like that? >> just like that. >> reporter: married. nobody there but them and their secret. they decided, said debra, they wouldn't tell anyone. >> i knew my family would be not very happy with me. >> reporter: what did it feel like? >> very mixed emotions. a little empty, knowing that they're not onboard with this. >> reporter: but that's all on that one side. on the other side, there's this rush of happiness and good feelings, right? >> yes. >> reporter: so debra's daughters, protective as usual, had no idea that their mother was a newlywed. the therapist debra had seen recommended that she keep her relationship separate from her family, but, of course, christmas was coming, and there were very important family traditions. like the one where terra would have her own special time with the nieces and nephews of her extended family. so they made a deal. john would stay in a different room, while terra had

her attacker, 57-year-old john meehan, infamously known as dirty john, her mother's es strained husbandly for nearly two years. the traumatic events developed into a hit podcast, a show on bravo and a documentary on oxygen. >> someone has been stabbed. >> i thought he was going to hurt her, my sister or me but i always had the sense that it was going to be me for some reason. >> reporter: that eerie hunch started back in 2014 soon after her mother debra met john online. >> john started calling every day and we would meet after work and he started saying he was in love with me, i was the soulm e soulmate. >> reporter: even though debra had only known him for two months she agreed to marry him on a trip to las vegas, moving into this waterfront home in california and debra paid for everything. but soon the truth about john started to become clear. the family learning about his criminal history, drug abuse, the other women he tormented and his fabricated stories. >> i mean, almost everything he told me was a lie. he told me he was an anesthesiologist, he was not an anesthesiologist. he sai

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