Million Dollar Lover – Ep 5. Family Fortunes

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With Carolyn’s encouragement, Dave is making more effort to see his children, including his daughter, Cody. Like her Dad, Cody has struggled with crystal meth addiction and is sometimes sleeping rough in her car as she waits for a place in a recovery unit. She longs for her Dad’s love, but she has been let down by him in the past and cannot really trust that he has changed

In this episode BBC Journalist, Sue Mitchell, goes with Dave to Riverside, on the outskirts of Los Angeles. This is where Dave has spent a lot of his life and on a walk at a local landmark he discloses that it is also where he was locked up following a violent attack. As more secrets from his past emerge Sue catches glimpses of Dave’s anger and of his more sinister side.

The revelations go to the heart of the question everyone in Cayucos is asking: is Dave really a tender carer who will cherish Carolyn to the end as he promises, or is he a dangerous interloper who will fleece Carolyn – breaking her heart and her family?

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Million Dollar Lover is produced at BBC Audio by the team behind The Boy in the Woods and is presented by Sue Mitchell.

The series is scripted by Winifred Robinson; the producers are Sue Mitchell and Joel Moors; the dramaturg is Flo Dessau and sound design is by Tom Brignall

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0:46.6	Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. But if you're in the UK, listen to the full series right now, first on BBC Sounds. Wherever he'd come from, once in Cayucus on the California coast, Dave Fout had become like the frog prince in the
1:15.4	fairy tale. A creature shunned and spurned, transformed by a kiss. From the point of view of Dave's princess, the wealthy lonely widow,
1:26.2	Carolyn, Dave was always Mr Wonderful. He loves me and I know that and he would do anything in the world for me.
1:35.6	So do you feel quite happy? Well I love him and he is good to me and I am lonely when he's not around.
1:45.0	Carolyn didn't seem to wonder what he might be capable of, but I did. Sometimes when we were alone together I questioned her about that. Her
1:59.0	daughters had searched out some details of his criminal convictions and showed them to their mom.
2:05.0	After reading his background, it doesn't have anything about being violent.
2:09.5	Although he did say he and his wife did have arguments and that kind of stuff so.
2:16.0	If you found out he'd been violent in the past would that put you off him?
2:21.0	Oh well I definitely would look at it and see.
2:25.0	I would have a limit.
2:27.0	But he's never raised his hand to me, never.
2:29.5	From the moment he arrived in Cayukas, Dave seemed to be open about his criminal past.
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