A Gentle Thief
A Gentle Thief is a fictional podcast, written and performed by Amanda Dickson, inspired by real events involving the death of a young girl and her parents' desperate and relentless attempt to have her death certificate changed from suicide to homicide. Get the full story here: https://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Thief-Amanda-Dickson-ebook/dp/B005IE7X2G Attorney Sophie Brownlie is given the case her first week with the law firm of Day Openshaw. She becomes passionate in her attempt to help the family prove that their daughter did not kill herself. But if she didn't, who did? Her ex-husband? Her new boyfriend, who had broken up with her just two days before she was found dead? Or is there someone else with a motive that isn't as clear? The story takes us from Las Vegas, where Sophie practices law, to Pennsylvania, where the young girl grew up, and finally to Cedar City, where she lived . . . and died. A Gentle Thief is brought to you by Superior Water and Air. http://kslnewsradio.com/1542169/ksl-newsradio-announces-new-fictional-podcast-gentle-thief/
Episodes
Sophie Brownlie is a brand new lawyer. She's eager to work, but is unsure of herself and her place in her Las Vegas law firm. Senior Partner Rick Day assigns Sophie a case thinking it will be a good learning experience for her. But as Sophie opens the file, she is immediately shocked by what she sees.
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Madeline Ruth Johnson (Maddie) lives with her parents Ike and Cookie in a small Pennsylvania town. Maddie and her father Ike struggle to live with the angry and vindictive Cookie. They avoid her as much as they can until that's no longer possible.
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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 t...
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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...
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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 disapp...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. Dicks...
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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, ...
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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 de...
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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. P...
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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.
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In Episode 13, it's Christmas night 1983, and Maddie finally answers the phone that's been ringing all day. She speaks first with her mother and then father. Both had been calling for hours. Maddie was toying with her gun as she listens to them talk.
Later Con stops by to apologize for not showing, sees her gun and is freaked out when Maddie gets the courage to tell him to leave.
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In Episode 14, Sophie Brownlie is working on sending letters of engagement to other medical examiners to ask them to review the file on Madeline Johnson, just as Dr. Verdad suggested she do. The phone rings, and it's an old college friend of Sophie's who recommends Sophie go see a psychic about the case. Reluctantly, she does.
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In Episode 15, Con and Maddie go back to see the counselor. Con talks about his dreams of death involving him and Maddie, one where they were going to commit a double suicide.
Maddie begins to shake and tells them something she's never told everyone - she killed a woman in a car accident.
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In Episode 16, Sophie Brownlie is waiting impatiently for any response from the three medical examiners. It's been nearly a month. The case feels stagnant, and she is reluctant to return Ike Johnson's call with nothing to tell him. She keeps thinking about what the psychic told her - that she would take a trip - and she wondered if she is supposed to go to Cedar City and attempt to interview Con Sulli...
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In Episode 17, Maddie spends a night with Con and feels like they have a real connection, but when she catches him on the phone with a girl the next morning and she spends another day alone, she is blessed with the realization that he is not for her. She is free.
But Con still shows up again and doesn't take her ...
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Episode 18 begins with Maddie. Her ex-husband calls to ask if can bring dinner over and Maddie agrees. Robert still has feelings for Maddie that it's not clear she returns.
Episode 18 then shifts to Sophie as she finally hears from the first medical examiner. He agrees with the original determination - suicide. Sophie is so disappointed she runs out the door and heads straight to Cedar City.
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In Episode 19, New Year's Eve finds Maddie alone, but feeling strong, until she has a painful conversation with her mother. Junior's mother calls on New Year's to find out her son is back together with that girl (Beth) she doesn't like.
Robert Able rings in the new year alone, but finally begins the dream of his ...
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In Episode 20, Sophie goes to SUU to find Robert Able. While he is no longer there, she does find Dr. Mina Theron, the counselor who saw Con and Maddie 20 years prior.
She is willing to talk to Maddie only because Con made everything that happened in counseling public in an article he had written. Following that ...
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