Putting Down the Rocks

The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Life after Zach’s murder is painful and complicated, but the Snarrs find a way forward through their grief. Sy and Ron try to be the parents their other children need while his siblings build lives in which he only exists as a memory. Another tragedy strikes.
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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.

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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Transcript

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0:00.0	I sit in my living room and everywhere I looked, I would see Zach.
0:25.6	I was sitting on the couch playing his guitar, walking through the door, saying,
0:29.0	I'm home, you know, and I was sobbing, I was just sitting there sobbing, and this was quite a while.
0:34.6	Just missing him.
0:41.6	In the months after Si's son was murdered, grief saturated every moment.
0:49.7	I remember looking up, and my oldest son was standing there, and he just looked so sad.
0:55.5	When I looked at him, he just walked out of the room.
0:59.5	That was the kick in my gut. I think that I needed.
1:03.5	When he saw me, so upset, and he looked so sad, just turned around and left the room.
1:10.5	I realized I had let the death of one child become more important than the lives of three more that I loved ever bit as much as Zach.
1:18.5	And it just brought me up short, like, what am I doing? What am I doing to my family?
1:26.5	I just knew that I had to change, but I didn't think I could towards my feelings for, or hate me in the noodle.
1:41.5	From KSL podcast, I'm Amy Donaldson, and this is the letter.
1:49.5	Episode five, putting down the rocks.
1:55.5	The snores hope that the sentencing of George Benvenuto would bring closure, that he would be locked away for the rest of his life,
2:02.5	and that they could somehow forget about him.
2:05.5	But George's legal team threw a wrench into that plan. They wanted to withdraw his guilty plea.
2:11.5	That meant the families involved would be left in legal limbo for years.
2:17.5	The idea that the snores could put this behind them turned out to be a mirage.
2:24.5	In the meantime, Si had to go on living.
2:28.5	But how do you sit through a parent-teacher conference, or consider what to make for dinner, when everything reminds you of what you've lost?
2:39.5	I didn't want to leave the house. I just would curl up in the fetal position, honestly.
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