“Hi, guys, I’m Terra, and I killed my stepdad in self-defense,” the woman in the video chirpily says. She has long, sweeping blond hair and is wearing a baseball tee, and with her upbeat demeanor she ...

The stepdaughter of con man "Dirty John" Meehan — who fatally stabbed him after he attacked her with a knife — has redefined the traumatic anniversary of the incident, infusing a harrowing day with a ...

Terra Newell is reframing Aug. 20 — the day of the fatal attack — into a new sort of anniversary Courtesy Time Out With Terra For years, August 20 was a complicated date for Terra Newell. On that day ...

John Meehan pinned his stepdaughter, Terra Newell, to the ground on the rooftop of a parking garage, but he dropped his knife, which she grabbed and then used to stab him 13 times. "I heard him gasp ...

John Meehan, the man known to millions as “Dirty John,” was stabbed to death in 2016 after he attacked Terra Newell, the youngest daughter of his second wife, Debra, with a knife. Terra says she ...

Terra Newell, here with her then-boyfriend, Jimmy, was Debra’s youngest daughter. She felt protective of her mom and wondered why a guy who sounded as good as John would still be single. The family’s ...