Meeting the Monster

The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

When Jorge Benvenuto sat down to write a letter to the family of the boy he’d shot to death as a teenager, he had no idea the chain of events that would follow. When he penned his apology alone in a prison cell, he never imagined that it would lead to him hugging the mother of that young man. Nor did he have any inkling about the many ways the letter would reverberate through his own life - and the lives of his family members. The Letter opened a pathway for the parents of Zachary Snarr to push for his release.

The Letter team will follow and update with new episodes as developments happen.

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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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1:09.3	This podcast includes descriptions of gun violence and associated trauma.
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1:19.1	I was February 18th, I remember the day I went and visited him.
1:25.4	She'd been riding back and forth for over a year, but I was still thinking I'm actually
1:31.2	going to see him.
1:32.2	I'm going to be face-to-face with him.
1:35.0	I was just trying to do like this deep breathing, you know, because I was nervous.
1:42.2	In February 2020, the world was not yet familiar with the phrase social distancing when size
1:48.8	now are made a visit to the Central Utah Correctional Facility in rural Utah.
1:53.4	I looked out there and I said, that's him, because you know, I hadn't seen him since he
1:57.9	was 19 years old, and I wouldn't have known him if I had a meeting face-to-face on the
2:03.7	street I wouldn't have recognized him.
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