Killer Thriller: Clayton Echard
episodePreviously titled “Funky Shadows” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor.
But here's the thing. Bachelor fans hated him.
If I could press a button and rewind it all, I would.
That's when his life took a disturbing turn.
A one-night stand would end in a courtroom.
The media is here. This case has gone viral.
The dating contract.
Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you.
This is unlike anything I've ever seen before.
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Amy Robach and TJ Holmes present... Killer Thriller with your host, Alisa Donovan.
Hey everyone, Alisa Donovan here, and this is Killer Thriller. Okay, today we are really getting into a very, very nutso case. Because sometimes the most dangerous stories, they are not the ones that happen in dark alleys. They happen in inboxes, courtrooms, headlines. So today we are stepping into a case that played out in real time. In the press, in the legal system, involving former bachelor Clayton Eckhardt. So what started as just a single, simple date quickly spiraled into a paternity claim, accusations of twins, hundreds of messages and emails, court filings, and eventually felony charges. So on the surface, it looked like just another celebrity scandal. But underneath that, this is about reputation, manipulation, public judgment, and what it feels like to try to prove your innocence to a world that pretty much already assumes that you're guilty.
So Clayton is here to talk about surviving that storm and about his new podcast, Love Trapped, Owens v. Eckhart, where you can hear all of the incredible details. Clayton, welcome to Killer Thriller.
Thank you for having me. I'm actually, yeah, I'm super excited. I've been on a couple other podcasts, but nothing in this realm, like this genre. So I feel like you're going to, you're going to really ask all the good questions that I've probably not been asked yet.
Great. Yeah. I mean, for us, this is a little bit of a. it may feel like lighter fare but for you it clearly is not um because this has had a massive impact on your life so um we'll definitely get into a lot of the legal things in like the case but when you my first question is when you look back at may of 2023 did you have any sense that this was about to become your life
No, not at all. I had already actually been through one false accusation. It was a cheating scandal, which happened in the previous year. And I disproved that within 24 hours, thankfully due to location services on my iPhone.
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