Your Next Listen - from Dave Cawley
Cold
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4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A personal note from COLD host Dave Cawley: I can’t thank you enough for listening to COLD. We’re between seasons right now, but I’m dropping into the feed to let you know about a podcast you might like.
It’s the brand-new second season of The Letter, a show from my friend and colleague Amy Donaldson. Season 2 of The Letter is called “Ripple Effect.” It’s about a bizarre double murder back in 1982, where a restaurant manager and a laundry truck driver were both shot to death. The killer was quickly caught, but his story didn’t make sense to police or to the families of the men he killed. And without spoiling it, I can tell you there are some major twists.
I’ve watched and listened as Amy and co-writer Andrea Smardon have weaved candid, emotional stories about families affected by violence in both seasons of The Letter. They do true crime differently, getting in deep with the people whose lives are upended. In The Letter season 2, they explore how grief, anger, remorse, and forgiveness can even ripple outward across generations. It’s an impactful listen.
Please give The Letter season 2: Ripple Effect a try. You can find the show here or at theletterpodcast.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Dave Collie. I listened to a podcast a little while back called The Letter. You may have heard of me recommend it. It's about a seemingly random murder that left a young man dead and his date wounded in more ways than I can understand. But more than this crime the letter was about an |
| 0:15.2 | unexpected twist that happened when the victim's family and the killer later found |
| 0:19.3 | themselves in communication. The host of the letter, Amy Donaldson, is a colleague and friend of mine. |
| 0:25.4 | She knew when she was reporting the story, it was one of a kind. |
| 0:28.4 | She didn't expect or even want to make a second season. |
| 0:31.7 | But then she learned about another letter. So yeah, she made a |
| 0:36.1 | second season and the letter season two ripple effect is out now. It starts like |
| 0:40.6 | your traditional true crime story. Two fathers are found dead, murdered in the back of a van outside a swanky restaurant. |
| 0:46.5 | The killer is soon caught and confesses, but the story he tells about why he murdered Jordan Rasmussen and Buddy Booth doesn't make much sense. |
| 0:56.1 | His confession only salts the wound for these two families. |
| 1:00.1 | I don't want to spoil where the story goes, but I can tell you Amy does a wonderful job peeling back the layers. |
| 1:06.0 | Ripple effect is right. Amy reveals how feelings of remorse, retribution, and forgiveness reverberate after such senseless trauma, |
| 1:15.0 | echoing down through generations. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm going to play you the start of the first episode |
| 1:20.0 | of The Letter Season 2 Ripple Effect, |
| 1:22.0 | and I'd encourage you to search for the show |
| 1:23.8 | wherever you're listening right now to hear how it ends. |
| 1:26.8 | You can also click on the link in the episode notes |
| 1:29.7 | or go to the Letter Podcast. |
| 1:31.9 | To hear more. Here's the letter. The last night of Jordan Rasmussen's life |
| 1:37.1 | wasn't especially remarkable. The only reason anyone finds it memorable is |
| 1:41.8 | because those who love him most say it perfectly |
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