The Tether

The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In the season finale of The Letter, Michael Moore learns if he will get a parole date. But the families who forgave him and advocated for his release never expected what he did next. They are left to ask themselves if they misjudged him.

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0:00.0	Lamanara.
0:06.0	Morning. This episode contains discussions of suicide.
0:10.0	Please take care when listening.
0:20.0	When Chad Rasmussen's family helped the man who murdered his father when a special parole hearing, he wanted to be part of it.
0:22.0	Because just like he has no memories of his dad,
0:25.0	he couldn't really remember a time before his family forgave the killer.
0:29.0	He'd accepted their forgiveness of Michael Moore
0:32.0	the same way he accepted their
0:33.5	stories about his dad.
0:35.0	They were just truths he grew up with.
0:38.0	That was always just kind of the way that we were. He didn't avoid grief, but it wasn't laced with bitterness.
0:47.2	Mine wasn't pain and anger necessarily towards Mike. It was still just a pain and an anger that was from the void of not having my dad there.
0:57.0	But for the first time, he questioned it.
1:01.0	As he sat in that hearing that his family helped make possible.
1:05.0	And I did have a flood of emotion.
1:09.0	I whole mix of emotions, mostly the pain that I had been going through and seeing for the
1:20.9	first time this man that had caused that.
1:26.0	He couldn't stop the tears.
1:28.0	Instead of feeling like he was part of something special,
1:31.0	he began to wonder if his family's forgiveness even belonged to him.
1:36.7	I had experienced it in my life but I didn't know if I was doing that and just following suit and
1:41.7	just following like a little duckling my aunts going through that.
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