Life Sentences

The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The families of Jordan Rasmussen and Buddy Booth realize the end of a trial doesn’t mean the end of their struggles. And only a year after Michael Moore is handed two life sentences, he makes a case for early release. But is the killer ready to take responsibility for the damage he caused?

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

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.0	The man who killed 24-year-old buddy Booth didn't know him. He didn't know he had a wife and two young
0:15.8	daughters. And that man had no idea that shooting the delivery driver who
0:20.8	just happened upon the scene of a murder the morning of March 5th
0:24.0	1982 would rob Buddy Booth's family of the most stable thing in their lives.
0:29.4	Buddy's widow, Carla, was just 23, and now solely responsible for the survival of their little family.
0:38.0	Baby Dana would not have any memories of Buddy, though she looked just like him.
0:44.3	But four-year-old Norma, she'd been the center of her dad's life, so she really felt the absence of her father.
0:52.1	She always wondered. of her dad was
0:55.0	dad was why he wasn't coming home and it took me a long time before I even said anything to her.
1:08.0	A drift in grief and uncertainty,
1:10.1	Carla didn't have a job.
1:11.8	And she couldn't bring herself to return to the apartment where she and buddy hoped to build a life.
1:16.7	She and the girl spent the first week or so with Buddy's family and then they moved in with her mom and stepdad for a couple of months.
1:23.0	Carla was focused on survival. There was no time for grieving or money for
1:28.0	counseling. She could barely cope with what was happening. How could she explain what was going on to a four-year-old?
1:35.4	My parents would say, Carter, you really need to take her to the grave site and let her see her bad.
1:47.2	And I said, she's not ready.
1:49.3	She's not ready.
1:52.0	But about a year after Buddy's death, the questions were getting harder not to answer, and
1:57.2	Norma was getting older.
1:59.4	So it felt like it was time.
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