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Coming up -- thousands of miles away, this woman also had questions about john. >> i started snooping. and i found everything. >> and when she spoke up, that's when things got really scary. >> tonia, you enjoy your time left on this earth. okay? because that's what it's going to come down to. >> when "dateline" continues. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens.

Her attention was that letter was from an inmate at the orange county jail. >> did you read the letter? >> i did. >> reporter: what was in it? >> it was talking about how lucky he was that he had found love, and that his life had turned around. and i'm thinking, "life had turned around?" hmm. so i questioned him, and he said that he writes and sends care packages to people in prison. >> reporter: sounded plausible enough to debra, but not to the sisters. especially not once their private investigator began reporting his findings on john meehan. >> they learned that he was not a doctor. he was ...

>> neither one of you? >> neither one of us. >> what was that like? >> really hard. >> reporter: hard for debra, too, but she needed her own life. she and john asked a counselor for advice. >> and the counselor suggested that i have rules for the girls. >> reporter: boundaries. >> the therapist said, "look, you have a right to be happy. this is your relationship. and john's position was this therapist is absolutely right. >> reporter: so debra weighed the options. listen to her family? or embrace what felt like the best thing to come along in years? she chose love, or certainly what felt like ...

John. >> i started snooping. and i found everything. >> and when she spoke up, that's when things got really scary. >> tonia, you enjoy your time left on this earth. okay? because that's what it's going to come down to. ♪ i had a heart problem.

County jail. >> did you read the letter? >> i did. >> reporter: what was in it? >> it was talking about how lucky he was that he had found love, and that his life had turned around. and i'm thinking, "life had turned around?" hmm. so i questioned him, and he said that he writes and sends care packages to people in prison. >> reporter: sounded plausible enough to debra, but not to the sisters. especially not once their private investigator began reporting his findings on john meehan. >> they learned that he was not a doctor. he was not an anesthesiologist. >> reporter: john had worked as a nurs...