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🗓️ 2 April 2024
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Two fathers are found murdered in a van parked outside an upscale Utah restaurant in 1982. The killer confessed, but his violent choice left five children to grow up with ghosts and grief. The families were forced to wrestle with impossible questions: Who is forgiveness for? Does everyone deserve a second chance? And what if a personal decision can ripple through generations, even reaching strangers? Season 2 of The Letter: Ripple Effect premieres on April 16th. Follow us on theletterpodcast.com and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss an episode.
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0:00.0 | Levenada. |
0:02.0 | On a snowy morning, two men who'd never met or found dead in the back of a van outside an iconic restaurant in the Utah Mountains. |
0:15.4 | We've got two individuals, both of them being shot twice and ahead with a large caliber weapon. |
0:20.4 | Both individuals have been identified, but the names haven't been released due to the next to kin. |
0:24.0 | The two men were both young fathers and their murders ripped gaping holes in the lives of those left behind. |
0:30.0 | She always wondered where her dad was, why he wasn't coming home. |
0:37.0 | I said, your dad has been her really dad and I just remember the pair. hurt really |
0:45.0 | became real. |
0:50.0 | A 25 year old man confessed to the murder. A 25 year old man confessed to the murders. |
0:54.0 | It was chilling, one of the most chilling statements I've ever heard. |
0:58.0 | But no one could understand why. |
1:00.0 | Just a pretty average normal guy with a decent job and not much of a criminal history of any kind and all of a sudden he's involved with killing two people. |
1:09.7 | He's a chameleon. |
1:11.1 | I thought he could change colors to manipulate you. |
1:14.8 | As those left in the wake of the violence |
1:16.7 | try to rebuild their lives, |
1:18.5 | they are forced to wrestle with questions |
1:20.4 | that would take decades to answer. Does everyone deserve a second chance? |
1:25.0 | We were there as a family showing support for justice and mercy. |
1:30.0 | I didn't think he deserved to be on this earth. |
1:34.0 | He took my husband, he should be taken. |
1:37.8 | This was a slam dunk, seemed to me, and I thought an obvious case that merited the death penalty. |
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