Woman who killed real-life 'Dirty John' channeled 'Walking Dead' during attack

Woman who killed real-life 'Dirty John' channeled 'Walking Dead' during attack:
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Terra Newell had just gotten out of her car in the parking garage of her apartment building and opened the door for her dog to hop out on Aug. 20, 2016, when suddenly she found herself in a fight for her life. “He grabs me by the waist and he looks me in the eyes and says, ‘Do you remember me,’” Newell told ' Marci Gonzales in an interview for "Nightline." Her hulking assailant was her mother’s estranged husband, 57-year-old John Meehan, now infamously known as "Dirty John," a man who had conned, terrorized and stalked their family. Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 12:35 a.m. ET on ABC. As Newell, 25 years old at the time, and Meehan struggled, she said he began stabbing her with a knife. “But I am not aware that he's stabbing me because the knife is in a Del Taco bag,” she said. “So I think he's punching me and he keeps on trying to grab me, put his hand over my mouth. I bite as hard as I can. And I just keep trying to get away from him.” As she tried to fight him off, Newell said she fell on her back and began “pedal-kicking” Meehan’s forearms as he tried to come down on top of her with the knife. “My dog's attacking his ankles at this point too,” she said. Newell, who had been stabbed near her rib cage and had an inch-deep stab wound in her arm, said she managed to kick the knife out of Meehan’s hand. “The knife lands into that ice pick position,” she said. “I pick it up and I just start wailing back on him. And then he falls on top of me.” As she tried to fend him off, Newell said her favorite show, “The Walking Dead,” flashed into her mind. “I'm pushing him off on me but I'm holding his head because like subconsciously [from watching] 'The Walking Dead' and don't want him to bite me,” Newell said. “And so like I push him off of me with holding his head ... I thought I don't want him to wake up and just try to hurt me again because I think he'll try to kill me again. Knife in her hand, Newell said she stabbed Meehan in the forehead and then stabbed him again. “The last one was in the eye because that's the softest point of entry so I wanted to kill his brain for like a zombie, essentially,” she said. At that point, Newell said she was able to push Meehan off of her. Neighbors rushed over to help and 911 was called. Newell had stabbed Meehan 13 times. When paramedics arrived, Meehan was near death. It was the end of a nightmare that had engulfed Newell’s family for nearly two years. The traumatic events she endured were first chronicled in the wildly popular Los Angeles Times article and podcast series, “Dirty John,” which was then adapted into a hit scripted Bravo show, starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana, as well as a documentary from Oxygen called “Dirty John: The Dirty Truth.” Newell’s mother, Debra Newell, a successful interior designer in California, had met Meehan online in 2014 when she was 59 years old. She said this tall, handsome man told her he was an anesthesiologist who also had daughters. “He sa
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