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The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

A Gun and a Death Wish

The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Police begin to put the pieces together and capture the 19 year old man who shot Zach and Yvette. Detectives make discoveries about what happened in the life of Jorge Benvenuto in the weeks before he bought a gun. Friends and family tell of a depressed, angry young man who’d been a victim of crime himself. Police track him down, in part because he calls and confesses what happened to a friend.
Get more information and photos on our website, theletterpodcast.com.


Researched and reported by Amy Donaldson
Written by Amy Donaldson and Andrea Smardon
Production and sound design by Andrea Smardon
Mixing by Trent Sell
Special thanks to Nina Earnest, Becky Bruce, KellieAnn Halvorsen, Ryan Meeks, Ben Kuebrich, Josh Tilton and Dave Cawley.
Main musical score composed by Allison Leyton Brown
With KSL Podcasts Executive Producer Sheryl Worsley
For Lemonada Media, Executive Producers Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
And Executive Producers Paul Anderson and Nick Panella with WorkHouse Media.
The Letter is produced by KSL Podcasts and Lemonada Media in association with WorkHouse Media.

Surviving a barrage of bullets is just the start of what Yvette Rodier will have to do to reclaim her life. The emotional damage will take far longer to heal than the physical bullet wounds. She gets married, has a child and chooses a career that allows her to use her past to help others.

Despite the looming shadow of the shooting, her life is one of beauty and generosity; of resilience and hope.

Get more information and photos on our website, theletterpodcast.com.

Researched and reported by Amy Donaldson
Written by Amy Donaldson and Andrea Smardon
Production and sound design by Andrea Smardon
Mixing by Trent Sell
Special thanks to Nina Earnest, Becky Bruce, KellieAnn Halvorsen, Ryan Meeks, Ben Kuebrich, Josh Tilton and Dave Cawley
Main musical score composed by Allison Leyton Brown
With KSL Podcasts Executive Producer Sheryl Worsley
For Lemonada Media, Executive Producers Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
And Executive Producers Paul Anderson and Nick Panella with WorkHouse Media
The Letter is produced by KSL Podcasts and Lemonada Media in association with WorkHouse Media.

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This episode includes descriptions of gun violence and suicide, please take care when

1:20.8

listening.

1:45.4

Keith Stevens was a homicide detective on duty for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office

1:49.3

when this call came in.

1:52.0

It was around 10.20pm, August 28th, 1996.

1:57.4

He was driving his unmarked patrol car along a road that snakes across the base of the

2:01.9

Wasatch Mountains.

2:04.5

To the west were the lights of the Salt Lake Valley, a community laid out in an orderly

2:08.5

grid system.

2:10.7

To the east, loomed the wild of the Wasatch, with canyon scenes illuminated only by the

2:16.3

light of a full moon.

2:19.7

It was about a 10-minute drive to Little Dell Reservoir.

2:26.4

As he arrived, he saw in his headlights a grim scene.

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