A Gentle Thief

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In Episode 12, Maddie attends the wedding of her father to Samantha. This is not a happy day for her. It's not that she doesn't like Samantha, exactly, it's just that it makes her mother even more angry and her father more far away.

Samantha inherits money and buys Maddie a sports car, which she loves, but which leads to tragedy.

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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Episode 11 of A Gentle Thief begins with Sophie and Rick on Valentine's Day when they have a negotiation with the US Attorney. The negotiation does not go well as the US Attorney sends an assistant in his place and Rick Day is not pleased.

The day leaves Sophie discouraged and heading home early to her husband. Part two of Episode 11 takes us back to Christmas Eve, 1983, and Maddie is preparing dinner for her and Con, but when there is someone at the door, it isn't Con.

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio.

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In Episode 10 of A Gentle Thief, Maddie is about to head out the door to school when the phone rings. Con calls to to tell her he has an appointment for them that night with a counselor.

Maddie isn't sure it's even worth the time, but after a day with her young student,  Eduardo, she meets Con at the counselor's office where Con talks about how ever since he met Maddie, he can't stop thinking about death.

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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In Episode 9, Sophie Brownlie and Rick Day get their meeting with the Utah Medical Examiner to try to convince him to change Madeline Johnson's death certificate from suicide to homicide. Before they leave for Salt Lake, Rick tells Sophie she'd better know why the ME wouldn't change the manner of death determination every other time the Johnson family asked him to do so.

She studies the files again, but can't understand why the powder test wasn't compelling enough, even if it wasn't 100% accurate. When they get to Dr. Verdad's office, Sophie makes the most famous of lawyer mistakes - she asks a question she doesn't know the answer to.

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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In Episode 8 of A Gentle Thief, Maddie confirms her fears about Con, but it does little good in protecting her. Her neighbor, Junior, helps her one night to catch him in a lie.

After the drama, Junior and Maddie talk late into the night, but Maddie wakes to find Con in her driveway with a plan to keep them together.

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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When Maddie asked her husband for a divorce, he didn't seem surprised. He left without argument. She went straight to Con and left a note on his car, "He's gone."

In this episode we watch Con and Maddie's relationship develop, and we feel the excruciating pain Maddie is in as she realizes what kind of a person Con is. She learns that he has a child he never sees and seems to care not at all about. We see Maddie at her lowest and begin to wonder - could she have killed herself?

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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In Episode 6 of A Gentle Thief, we are back with Sophie at the law firm on the day her client, Ike Johnson, calls. They go over where they are on the case, what the strong arguments are, and how they are going to approach the Utah Medical Examiner.

After the hang-up, Rick asks Sophie to review the details of the case with him. Why was there a second autopsy? Tell me about the interviews in the file that private investigators did with the ex-husband and the boyfriend guy. Can you picture them as murderers? Rick shakes his head. He thinks there is something wrong with his client. Why would a Dad keep this up for 20 years after his daughter's death?

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio.

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In Episode 5 of A Gentle Thief, a fictional podcast based on real events, we meet the man who would become Maddie's undoing - Con Sullier. He is a disc jockey at the local rock station, aloof, trolling the green show at the Shakespeare Festival when they meet. Maddie is there to see the show, something she often enjoys. Her husband stayed home, as he usually does.

Con flirts with her and then disappears. She goes back the next night to look for him. Then she goes back the night after that, having no idea she will never be able to close the door she is opening in her life. 

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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In Episode 4 of A Gentle Thief, a fictional podcast based on true events, we see Maddie Johnson as a young woman living in Cedar City in the house given to her by her father. She felt too young to be a homeowner, but was that AND a landlord to her neighbor, a nice guy named Junior Kemler.

We learn how she came to Cedar City to be a student at Southern Utah University, and how she met her husband. He is a professor of Shakespeare. She was his star student. Their relationship was doomed to be a tragedy.

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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In Episode 3 of A Gentle Thief, a fictional podcast inspired by true events, attorney Sophie Brownlie studies the case of the dead girl with her husband, an experienced crime reporter with The Las Vegas Sun. Together they learn that the client is named Ike Johnson. He is trying to get the Utah coroner to change the manner of death determination on the death certificate of his daughter from suicide to homicide. That's it. 

The problem is when his daughter was found, everyone treated her death like a suicide, except the coroner. There were brown markings on her hands that looked like powder burns. 

A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast written and performed by Amanda Dickson. Dickson is heard weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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