Family Dog Keeps Daughters Safe After They Were Stranded and Lost in Woods
A goldendoodle named Artemis came to the rescue of his human siblings recently. One evening, Mary Bourg from Folsom Louisiana, was frantic. Her young daughters, Abigail, 7, and Cecilia, 4, has been out playing with their dog Artemis while she finished working but by the time the sun was setting, they hadn’t come home yet, and she was understandably worried. She called out for them. She roamed the six acres of property their home is on.“I had the worst thoughts. I just didn’t let those thoughts stick around very long because I couldn’t handle that. That feeling of just, 'Oh my gosh, what could happen to them, where are they,” their mother, 31, told WWLTV. “You start feeling the worst in those split seconds, too long," Mary wondered if they’d fallen in the creek or if one of the wild boars that roam their property had gotten to them and injured–or worse–them.RELATED: Strangers Help Impoverished Veteran Reunite With His Dogs — He Has an Incredibly Emotional Response to Their Kindness“I’d been running around our property, and I was calling for them,” Mary, told Today.com on Dec. 20. “Usually, they come running with Artemis leading the way.”“I began to think the worst,” Mary continued “My mind was just racing.”Heroic BarkingMary tried to calm her shaking hands as she dialed 911 to report that her two young daughters were missing. She also asked for help in a local Facebook group.“Originally, I was very confident we were going to find them in the woods,” their father Justin Bourg said. “That’s their favorite place to go play but once hour three, three and a half was kind of creeping up on us on the clock I was getting more dark thoughts.” And then, four hours later, their girls were home with their beloved three-year-old Goldendoodle Artemis leading the way. RELATED: Homeless Man Caught Giving His Dogs a Birthday Party – His Neighbors Step in and Change His LifeMary and Justin found out that when the sisters realized they were lost, they stayed in the same place, sat down, and played games. “Abigail was laying on top of Artemis holding his collar and just snuggled up with him and Cecilia was laying with her head on Abigail’s stomach, and they were just kind of dug in for the night," Justin Bourg said.The dog’s barking attracted people searching for Abigail and Cecilia. Artemis also ran circles around the girls when volunteers from the Facebook group got close to the girls.The Incredible Bond of Dogs and Humans(TODAY)“He was pouncing around them and growling,” a neighbor named Rooster Cowart said. “He was not going to let me get to them at all.”Cowart is also convinced that Artemis protected Abigail and Cecilia from an aggressive wild boar that he’d crossed paths with while he tried to find the girls.As a reward for his heroism, Artemis ate a raw steak. He’s also been given all kinds of treats from his fans and a free blueberry facial at the vet.But the Bourgs learned a valuable lesson and while they don’t want to curb their daughters’ curiosity and love for the outdoors, they realize that they should be wearing tracking devices. The couple is also investigating installing security cameras around their property for safety.“I don’t want to traumatize them — I want to keep that adventure mentality, but also have a head about it and be smart,” Justin Bourg told the local NBC affiliate WDSU. “"We’re definitely going to look into some tracker watches or tracking equipment if they are out here and I’m going to do a better job of teaching them about the elements out here,” Justin said. “I was hoping to have a little more time but looks like they’re ready to do a lot more exploring, I’m going to do a better job of teaching them about the elements out there.” And since the incident, Abigail has wanted Artemis to sleep in her bed with her."They've gotten much closer," Mary said. "It's like she understands what he did for them. Animals are a lot smarter than we give them credit for."KEEP READING:Video Of How Poor Street Vendor Treats Stray Dogs Goes Viral For All The Right Reasons
Elon Musk Now Owns Twitter and 6 Other Weird Facts - Is He The IRL Tony Stark?
*This article was updated on October 28, 2022.It’s true. The unthinkable has happened: Elon Musk officially owns Twitter. Welcome to the wild, wild west of social media. The internet is exploding with the news and what will happen to one of the most popular social media platforms. Elon Musk is everywhere lately. Twitter owner after a very drawn out, public, and complicated deal, SpaceX's most recent rocket is in orbit, and he recently welcomed twins with an executive at one of his companies, just weeks after he welcomed a second child with his ex-girlfriend Grimes. That's a lot in one lifetime, but this is only a few months in the life of the Tesla co-founder. RELATED: Elon Musk: The Life Story of the Boy Who Changed the FutureEven Musk's dad made headlines for secretly fathering a second child with his stepdaughter (whom he raised from when she was four). Suffice it to say, it's impossible to escape Elon Musk or the Musk name. Musk certainly knows how to make news and has a legion of devoted fans to prove it.Musk has often been called the real-life Tony Stark. Love him, hate him, or even if you’re ambivalent towards him, he’s built an impressive resume during his 51 years as co-founder of PayPal, founder of space exploration company SpaceX, the head of luxury electric car company Tesla Motors, and now Twitter owner. He is a fascinating man who is unapologetically himself. Elon Musk Buys Twitter Musk's first tweet after the purchase was, "The bird is freed!"Musk, a free speech enthusiast has been vocal against what he considers "censorship that goes far beyond the law" and Twitter's "left-wing bias." Previously Twitter regulated tweets and banned users that were considered spreading hate speech or disinformation. Other goals to "improve Twitter" include getting rid of bots and making the algorithm for how Twitter shows news available to everyone. No word yet on how these goals will be implemented. Get ready for some changes, they are happening fast! In Musk's first few hours as owner, he has fired Twitter's company’s chief executive, Parag Agarwal; chief financial officer Ned Segal; general counsel Sean Edgett; and Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal policy, trust, and safety. Elon Musk joined Twitter as @elonmusk in 2009 and is an active member of the social media platform. He’s at times amusing, at other times enigmatic, and at still other times, controversial. He frequently posts memes, trolls other users, promotes his various business endeavors, and comments on pop culture and politics. Musk’s Twitter bio reads: Mars & Cars, Chips & Dip. He has more than 100 million followers as of this writing.The $44 billion dollar acquisition was a long time in the making. Musk talked about buying Twitter as early as 2017. He got serious about that plan in January 2022, when he started buying up shares of Twitter’s stock, amassing a 5% stake in the company in March. By the following month, he had a 9.13% share in the company, which made him the company’s largest shareholder. It looked like he might attempt a takeover of the company. When he revealed his position as Twitter’s largest shareholder, the company’s stock surged to the largest amount in one day since its IPO in 2013. Musk began publicly debating Twitter’s freedom of speech (or in Musk’s eyes, lack thereof). He mused that he might start a rival site. By this time, he owned 7.5% of the company. Then on April 13, 2022, Musk offered $44 billion and launched a takeover bid to try and buy all of Twitter’s stock.Twitter retaliated by putting a shareholder’s rights plan in place to make it harder for any one individual to own more than 15% of the company without approval from its board of directors. Musk offered $46.5 billion for Twitter. Immediately following that news, Tesla’s stock sank by more than $125 billion, causing Musk to lose $30 billion of his net worth. RELATED: Elon Musk Says This One Habit Is the Secret to Becoming SuccessfulAbout a month after he made his intentions to take over Twitter clear, he put the deal on hold, claiming that too many of the site’s daily active users were spam accounts. This caused Twitter’s share price to fall by more than 10%.In July 2022, Musk sent a notice of his termination of the deal to purchase Twitter. The company’s board of directors remain committed to holding Musk to his deal as of this writing and have filed a lawsuit against Musk in Delaware, citing his breach of a legally binding agreement to buy TwitterElon Musk’s Family and EducationElon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971 during the era of apartheid. His mother, Maye Musk, is a Canadian-born model. His father, Errol Musk, is an entrepreneur who, among other endeavors, was half-owner of a diamond mine in Zambia. Elon has a younger brother, Kimbal, a sister, Tosca, as well as a stepsister, half-sister, and half-brother on his father’s side. His parents divorced in 1980, and after living with his father for a few years in his teens, became estranged from him.Musk became interested in computers and video games as a kid. When he was 12, he created a videogame called Blastar and sold the code (he wrote it in BASIC) for $500. After high school, he applied to emigrate to his mother’s native Canada. While he waited, he enrolled at the University of Pretoria for a semester so that he could avoid mandatory service in the South African military. RELATED: Elon Musk Says This Surprising Thing Helped Him Become A Billionaire, Offers Unusual Parenting Lesson In The ProcessMusk moved to Canada in 1989 to attend Queen’s University in Ontario for two years. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a BA in physics and a BS in economics. During the summer before his senior year, he worked two internships in California’s Silicon Valley. One was at a startup called Pinnacle Research Institute which was in the field of energy storage, and one was at Rocket Science Games. After graduating from Penn, he enrolled in Stanford University’s Ph.D. program in materials science. He dropped out after two days and decided he’d be better off taking advantage of this new thing called the internet and launching a startup. Elon Musk’s Early CareerElon Musk borrowed money from his father and founded Zip2, a software company, with his brother and friend Greg Kouri in 1995. Zip2 put together and sold an internet city guide for the newspaper industry, including yellow pages, maps, and directions. At this point in his life, Elon was broke and slept on the couch in his offices and showered at the local YMCA rather than renting an apartment, Vanity Fair reported. RELATED: 3 Incredible Times Elon Musk Failed and Still Came out on TopIn 1999, the company Musk co-founded sold to Compaq for $307 million in cash. Musk owned seven percent of Zip2’s stock which was equal to $22 million. He was on his way to becoming the richest person in the world, and he was 28 years old. Elon Musk's Involvement With the PayPal MafiaAfter the sale of Zip2 in 1999, Elon Musk immediately co-founded an online financial service and payment by email company called X.com. The company was one of the first online banks to be federally insured. In 2000, X.com merged with another online bank called Confinity to reduce competition. Confinity was founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin and had its own money-transfer service, called PayPal and Musk was the CEO. However, by September 2000, the board of directors replaced Musk with Thiel as CEO. RELATED: How to be Successful: 16 Habits to Help You Succeed in LifeIn September 2001 the company was renamed PayPal. eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion in stock in 2002. Musk was once again the largest shareholder and his 11.72% of shares in PayPal were worth $175.8 million. Musk, Levchin, and Thiel are commonly referred to as the PayPal Mafia as all three went on to further and even greater successes. How Did Elon Musk Get So Rich With SpaceX?Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur who is not only brilliant but also had the fortune of being in the right place at the right time (several times). Musk was fresh out of college when the first dot-com boom took place and Zip2 and PayPal were part of that. After PayPal sold to eBay, Musk’s net worth was nearly $200 million. From there, he dove into his interest in space exploration and founded SpaceX in 2003. He identified and took advantage of the opportunities his life and career put him in the path of, including Tesla Motors. The company was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Musk joined the company not long after, investing $6.5 million of his own money into the company, which made him the majority shareholder. As a result, Elon Musk was made the Chairman of the board of directors. RELATED: What Is ‘BDE’ and What Are the Signs You Have It?Musk is also the founder of several other companies including the neurotechnology startup company Neuralink, which aims to artificial intelligence chips that can be embedded in human brains to make it easier for people to merge with machines. He also founded The Boring Company, in 2017 to construct tunnels to improve heavy vehicular traffic.We cannot talk about the facts about Elon Musk without mentioning his incredible $198 billion net worth. According to Celebrity Net Worth, this makes Elon Musk the richest person in the world. Musk owns 48% of SpaceX, valued at $46 billion, and 22% of Tesla, and in 2020 his net worth skyrocketed, increasing $142 billion that year. Elon Musk Joins Tesla MotorsWhen Elon Musk was first Chairman of Tesla’s board of directors, he was not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. However, conflicts between Martin Eberhard and the board of directors, coupled with the 2008 financial crisis, led to Eberhard being fired from the company he co-founded. RELATED: Why Being Financially Organized Can Help Your Motivation and Emotional Well-BeingMusk was made the CEO in 2008. As Tesla CEO he oversaw the development of the Tesla model called the Roadster, an all-electric sports car in 2008. In 2017, the mass market sedan, the Model 2 was released and became the best-selling plug-in electric car in the world. Elon Musk is the longest-tenured CEO of a car company in the world. Tesla made its IPO in 2010 and by 2020, was the most valuable carmaker in the world. In October 2021, Tesla had a market cap of $1 trillion, becoming just the sixth US-based company to reach that milestone. At Tesla Musk is changing the way the world perceives electric cars.Elon Musk’s Relationships and ChildrenNo look at facts about Elon Musk would be complete without a look at his relationships, marriages, and children. Musk met his first wife, Justine Musk (nee Wilson) while studying at Queen’s University in Canada. They married in 2002. Elon and Justine had six children. Their first child died at 10 weeks old of sudden infant death syndrome. In 2004 they had twins and in 2006 triplets via IVF. Elon and Justine divorced in 2008. That same year, Elon began dating actress Talulah Riley. They married in 2010. In 2012, they divorced. The following year, in 2013, they remarried each other. In December 2014 he filed for divorce a second time, but that request was removed. Elon and Talulah divorced for the second and final time in 2016. He moved on to actress Amber Heard, whom he dated for a few months in 2017.RELATED: Elon Musk Has a New Girlfriend, and the Quirky Way They Met Shows He’s a True SapiosexualIn 2018, Musk revealed that he’d been dating musician Grimes. The couple’s first son, a son they named X AEA-XII, was born in 2020. In December 2021, the couple had a daughter named Exa Dark Sidrael via surrogate. Grimes and Musk broke up a few months before their daughter was born. Then, in July 2022, Insider published legal documents that revealed Musk and Neuralink executive, Shivon Zils, had twins together. As of this writing, Elon Musk has nine children with three different women. Lessons We Can Learn From Elon Musk's SuccessElon Musk is incredibly successful. He knows his strength, what his value and interests are, and relentlessly pursues projects that he can dive into, grow the value of, and sell at a huge profit. Some people say he marches to the beat of his own drum, but that's true of any truly successful person, especially creative ones. Musk may be an engineer at heart, but he's also highly creative in the way he applies his strengths to his endeavors. KEEP READING:Elon Musk Shared the Most Refreshing, No-BS Productivity Tips with Tesla Employees
Whatever Happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger's Secret Love Child?
It’s been 11 years since the Los Angeles Times revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a love child with his housekeeper Mildred which shocked the world and precipitated his divorce from Maria Shriver. Even more shocking than the revelation itself was the fact that he’d been able to keep it a secret for more than a decade. Schwarzenegger’s life imploded after his son Joseph Baena’s identity was revealed. RELATED: The Way Arnold Schwarzenegger Responded to a Depressed Fan is a Powerful Lesson in EmpathyIn the time since then, Schwarzenegger has revived his acting career and owned up to the mistakes he made. He’s rebuilt his life from the ashes of the bomb that went off in it. He’s built a relationship with his son Joseph and showed that even though he made a mistake in having an affair while married, he’s a man of character who can admit when he was wrong and take steps to make it right again. Schwarzenegger has five children – Joseph Baena with Mildred Baena and Patrick, Katherine, Christopher, and Christina Schwarzenegger with Maria Shriver. Where is Joseph Baena today and what’s he up to? Is he following in his famous father’s footsteps or forging his own way in the world? Joseph Baena Graduated From CollegeThey grow up so fast! Joseph Baena graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu in 2019 and reportedly has aspirations to follow in his dad’s footsteps by becoming an actor. In the meantime, he needed to earn some cold hard cash, so he got a job in real estate. His father may be worth $450 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, but he’s not doling out handouts to his 24-year-old son.RELATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Life Story: From Body Builder to “The Governator”On Sophia and Sistine Stallone’s podcast Unwaxed, Baena said, “I’m really grateful that my dad helped me get through college,” Baena started. “But right when college was done, it was just like, ‘You go. You’re on your own.’ I was like, ‘Oh, s***.’” Baena needed to find a way to make money until his acting career started delivering returns.Baena Now Works In Real Estate When Joseph Baena graduated from college, he wanted to be an actor. However, faced with a need to make money, he started an internship at a real estate firm. During the Unwaxed podcast, he said, “So yeah, I needed a job, and I was not getting any of the acting roles that I thought I was going to get, and like starting to get paid. I was like, ‘I need to do something.’ So, I started interning at this real estate company.”RELATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals The Truth About His Secret Son, Joseph BaenaBaena got a job at ARIA Properties. Though he still has ambitions to act and become a movie star, he’s doing well in his career and has even found out that he likes it, saying, “I went in there. I was like, ‘I want to just learn as much as possible while making some kind of income.’ And then I enjoyed it and was like, ‘Oh, I think I can do this pretty well.’ So, I got my license.” He became a licensed real estate agent in 2021. Baena’s Instagram reveals that he sold his first home in early 2022. He captioned the picture celebrating the event: “SOLD!!! Congratulations to my clients for trusting myself and @aria_properties to sell their beautiful Santa Monica Property!”He’s a Multi-Hyphenate Like His DadArnold Schwarzenegger is a former bodybuilder, actor, real estate mogul, and former governor of California. Joseph Baena is following in his father’s footsteps by also being a multi-hyphenate young man pursuing multiple ambitions. In Baena’s case, he’s a real estate agent, model, actor, podcaster, and bodybuilder. RELATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger: No One Can Do It AloneHis IMDB profile reveals he appeared in the TV miniseries Off the Grid and in the film Chariot. He’s got a few movies he’s filming now including Encounters and Bully High.He launched his podcast Opposite Ends earlier this year with tech entrepreneur, Jaibir Nihal Singh. They interview successful guests to discuss their careers, what they did, what they learned, and what it took them to achieve their goals. He’s also following in his dad’s footsteps of being a serious bodybuilder. A quick glimpse at his social media reveals the budding actor posing in classic weightlifting poses like his dad did back in his Mr. Olympia days.Is Joseph Baena Single?In January 2022, Joseph Baena admitted on the Unwaxed podcast that he had been single for about a year and a half after trying out the dating apps Hinge and Raya. He also admitted that he’s only had three relationships in his life so far. RELATED: Chris Pratt’s Tragic Divorce Taught Him One Crucial Thing before Marrying Katherine SchwarzeneggerHe dated a girl for three years from his junior year in high school until the end of his first year of college. Then he dated another girl for a year and a half starting his junior year in college. And finally, he dated Malibu Juice Club founder Nicky Dodaj, whom he met at Pepperdine for a couple of years. Why Doesn’t He Use The Schwarzenegger Name?Joseph Baena is on the cover of the March 2022 issue of Men’s Health magazine, where he opens up about his famous dad and the fact that he’s following in his footsteps as an actor and bodybuilder. RELATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Don’t Ever Look For ShortcutsIn the interview, he reveals why he doesn’t use his father’s last name, saying, "When I go to auditions, they don't know who I am because we don't have the same last name.” Another benefit to this strategy is that when Baena does book a role he knows it was all him and not his famous name. Baena also said that his dad Arnold Schwarzenegger is old-school and doesn’t believe in handouts. He said, “He believes hard work pays off, and so do I. I love the word honor, and I'm very prideful in the sense that if I use my dad's contacts or ask him for favors, I wonder what honor is that gonna bring me?"KEEP READING: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Secret Child Broke His Family
How a 24-Year-Old Victim Became the Hero Who Stopped the Real 'Dirty John' Meehan
Debra Newell met John Meehan in fall 2014, and something just clicked. He was different from the other men the interior designer from Southern California had dated since her fourth divorce. Handsome, charming and successful, "Dirty John" -- a nickname he picked up in college -- was an anesthesiologist who spent time in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. Or so he claimed. RELATED: How a Podcast Exposed a New Break in the Unsolved Delphi Murders CaseJohn knew exactly what to say to sweep Debra off her feet. She was ready to take a chance on him, and on real love. But John Meehan wasn’t who claimed to be. He had been released from prison in October 2014, only two days before he met Debra, after serving time for violating a restraining order. The two soon moved in together -- and that’s when the true Dirty John began to emerge. He became increasingly violent, and isolated Debra from her daughters, Jacquelyn and Terra, who were suspicious of John from the start. When the Newell women dug into his past, they uncovered a web of lies and crimes. And, before long, John's violence turned from Debra to Terra, who barely escaped with her life. The story of John Meehan became famous, first in the 2017 Los Angeles Times podcast "Dirty John," and then in Bravo's true-crime series of the same name, starring Eric Bana and Connie Britton. However, what the real Dirty John forced the Newell family to endure is worse than anything seen on television.Terra Newell ended Dirty John's reign of terror, but she lives with the memory of what happened to her. However, she also possesses the knowledge that she had the strength to defend herself, and to survive.Dirty John Meehan Had a Dark and Dangerous PastJohn Meehan and Debra Newell (Photo courtesy of Debra Newell)John Meehan's history of lying dated back at least to his 1990 marriage to first wife, Tonia Sells, in Ohio. A nurse anesthetist who had claimed to be 26 years old to Tonia's 25 (he was really 31), John helped to put Tonia through nursing school. They had two daughters. But after 10 years of marriage, John asked for a divorce. RELATED: How Cynthia Vigil Escaped "Toy Box Killer" David Parker Ray and Ended His Horrific CrimesAlthough John had told her never to contact his parents, a distraught Tonia called John's mother, Delores. She revealed his full name, and true age, and told Tonia that John had a drug charge in California. Tonia searched their house, and found a stash of anesthetic drugs. She then called police, who in fall 2020 opened an investigation into John Meehan's activities.Two years later, John brought a gun into the operating room, and attempted to steal the Demerol he was supposed to give to a patient. Meehan was stripped of his nursing license in April 2002, after police found a loaded gun and a cache of empty containers for six prescription medications. An investigator for the Warren County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Office told the Los Angeles Times that Dirty John was “the most devious, dangerous, deceptive person I ever met.” John pleaded guilty to felony drug theft in June 2002, and then went on the run. Police apprehended him apprehended in a Michigan hotel room, where they found unconscious and surrounded by drug vials. As John was being transported by ambulance to the hospital, he escaped his restraints, grabbed the drug kit, and jumped out of the vehicle, only to be recaptured. He was sentenced to up to six years in prison, but only served 17 months. By 2004, Dirty John Meehan was free again.He was relatively quiet, and off the radar, for a decade. Then he moved to Southern California, where he stalked and terrorized other women in the months before he met Debra Newell, on a dating site for people over 50.Debra Was Looking for Love and Ended Up Fighting for Her LifeDebra Newell (Screencap: Watch What Happens Live)John Meehan met Debra Newell met for dinner in October 2014, at a restaurant in Irvine, California. Debra was a successful interior decorator who had been unlucky in love. She saw something in the handsome and charming doctor. “He was the total package," Debra recalled, more than three years later, on Megyn Kelly Today. "A doctor. Very intelligent. A family man.”But John saw something in Debra, too: She needed to be loved, and to be needed. He also saw someone he could easily manipulate. And that’s exactly what he did. RELATED: How 17-Year-Old Lisa McVey Saved Her Own Life by Outsmarting the Serial Killer Who Abducted HerTheir relationship moved fast. Within a month, they were living together in a luxurious, waterfront house on Balboa Island, in Newport Beach. Debra’s daughters met John, and didn’t like him. Something about him raised red flags that their mother had missed. They pleaded with her to slow down, and to dig into his past. On the day before Thanksgiving 2014, Terra found out her mother and John were living together. She confronted Debra, sending John flying into a rage. That's when he plotted to isolate Debra from her daughters, placing her on a path of violence and trauma. Debra and John married the following month in Las Vegas. Her daughters weren't invited. Afterward, John became only more controlling. He monitored every dollar Debra spent, questioned her whereabouts, and continued to keep her away from Terra and Jacquelyn.Debra Newell Discovered the Truth About Dirty JohnDebra NewellDebra’s nephew told her in 2015 that John had spent time in prison, and was lying about being a doctor. She began to look through her husband’s paperwork, and found the restraining orders other women had taken out against him. He had been posing as a doctor and seducing women since 2005. He stalked, terrorized and stole. Debra even found websites on which women warned about Dirty John. RELATED: Are True-Crime Podcasts "Unhealthy" or Can They Solve Real Problems?She moved out when John wasn’t home, but then took him back several months later. John's charm, and his lies, had seduced Debra again.In March 2016, Debra sneaked out of the house to visit her daughter, Jacquelyn. John was furious, and threatened to kill Jacquelyn if Debra tried to see her again. That was the final straw for Debra, who filed to annul their marriage. However, that only further enraged John. In June 2016, he stole Debra’s Jaguar from her office parking space. Police recovered the car, soaked in gas and damaged by fire.Was Terra Newell Charged for Killing John Meehan?Photo courtesy of Terra NewellOn Aug. 20, 2016, Debra's daughter, Jacquelyn, spotted John lurking around her apartment building. She called to warn her sister, Terra. That night, Terra returned home from work, and parked in her building’s lot. As she got out of her car, John attacked her from behind with a knife. Terra fought back, biting and kicking him in an effort to knock the blade out of his hand.Terra Newell fatally wounded Dirty John Meehan during their struggle. She wasn't charged with a crime, however, because she was fighting back in self-defense.How Many Times Did Terra Stab John?Photo courtesy of Terra NewellTerra Newell got her hands on the knife as she fought on the ground with John Meehan. She then used it to stab him 13 times, including once through his eye.RELATED: Where Is Kidnapping Victim Elizabeth Smart, 19 Years After Being Rescued?She instinctively knew that, if he were able to stand back up, John would kill her. A neighbor who witnessed the struggled called police, and then rushed with a towel to wrap Terra's wounded hand. Paramedics were able to revive him, so there was no need to ask who killed John Meehan, yet.He died four days later, on Aug. 24, 2016.What Happened to Terra Newell After John Meehan Died?Terra Newell and Debra Newell, on Megyn Kelly Today (Photo: NBC)Terra Newell revealed to People magazine in 2019 that she had suffered from PTSD since the night John Meehan attacked her. “I tried to go back into a normal life, but couldn't," she said. "I started to go to therapy, which didn't help until I found a great EMDR therapist in Austin, Texas, and took the time to heal."Since that night in August 2016, Terra has focused on healing, and on finding ways to address her PTSD. She has dedicated herself to mastering self-defense, and helping people detect red flags in relationships. She also launched a podcast, Time Out With Terra.“Even though I am still struggling with PTSD, I have healed so much," she said. "People need to know that bad things can happen, and you should never let those things hold you back or get you down. The most important thing I have learned is to keep going and stay positive!”KEEP READING: How Jaycee Dugard Reclaimed Her Life After an 18-Year Kidnapping
