Johnathan Walton was a morning feature reporter for KHOU 11 in Houston during the first decade of the 2000s. Before his time in Houston, he worked at KABB in San Antonio on the segment "Walton's Window."
After leaving Houston, Walton moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy, which eventually led to opportunities in television production. But the transition wasn’t easy.
"The mentality here is: If you don’t work in LA, you must not know anything," Walton told mikemcguff.com in 2009. "So even though I had 8 years of TV producing experience working at KHOU, KABB and WSVN, it meant nothing to the production companies here. So I had to start at the bottom as a PA… along with all the college kids. Luckily I was able to move up pretty quickly because I had one major advantage over all the college kids: 8 years of TV producing experience at KHOU, KABB and WSVN."
In 2021, Walton launched the iHeartMedia podcast “Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress,” which chronicled his real-life experience of being scammed out of $100,000.
The podcast’s success led to the release of his book, “Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves,” published in August 2025.
Forget features...Walton should be a consumer reporter now!
The book’s release brought Walton back to his broadcasting roots, reuniting him with former Channel 11 morning anchor colleague Deborah Duncan on Great Day Houston (with a surprise appearance by Ron Treviño). He also returned to his San Antonio ties with an appearance on News 4 WOAI, KABB’s sister station, along with numerous other media outlets nationwide.
