Whisperings

The Letter Season 2: Ripple Effect

Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Feelings of rage and retribution were melting away as Leslie Rasmussen drafted a letter to the man who murdered her brother, Jordan. She wrote the letter without talking to any of the family members, who nearly simultaneously came to their own conclusion. Michael Moore writes back.

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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.
0:08.0	With every stroke of the pen, Leslie Rasmussen Moore banished a little more pain from her heart.
0:14.1	And when she mailed the letter she'd written to her brother's killer,
0:17.6	she sent years of sadness away too.
0:20.8	But when she offered forgiveness, she gave grace.
0:24.0	That wasn't hers alone.
0:26.2	She knew she'd eventually have to confess the choice she'd made to her family.
0:31.1	But she wasn't afraid. She was strangely at peace.
0:35.0	It was as if a weight had been lifted.
0:38.0	I said, I don't believe what I just did, but I'm going to share what I did with you
0:42.0	so that you know. Leslie told her parents,
0:45.0	her sisters, and Jordan's widow. She shared the first draft of the letter she wrote
0:50.1	Michael Moore, a letter that said not only did her entire family forgive him, but
0:56.6	declared him their brother.
0:59.4	Their youngest sister Anne-Marie couldn't believe it.
1:03.0	Oh my goodness, what have you done?
1:08.0	And that wasn't all.
1:10.0	She had something else to tell them,
1:12.0	something they weren't prepared to deal with.
1:15.0	Michael Moore had written back.
1:18.0	She reached out to Jordan's widow, Diane.
1:21.0	I distinctly remember when she called me and told me that she had received a reply to her letter.
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