Hello Ashley and Brit,<\/p>\n
I just wanted to let you know what an impact you and your podcast have had on our family\u2026.. And let you know, you are not just honoring the memories of victims, but you are in fact helping new \u201cwould be\u201d victims to not become victims\u2026 Let me explain\u2026<\/p>\n
Been listening to your podcast for over a year, mostly in the car back and forth to work, this last summer (JUNE 2022) we were heading to vacation two hours away and my 24-year-old step daughter Kay was with me in the car. I came into her life when she was 14 and she\u2019s super close to her real mom, so \u2026 long ride, awkward silences were to be expected\u2026 so I just started playing a random Crime Junkie Episode in the car.. the one about the Powell family murders is where the scroll and pick stopped\u2026 (I\u2019ve literally heard every episode so at this point I just scroll and random stop for re-listens) It dropped in October or so or 2018 anyway, after that story you guys posted a Domestic Violence Professional who just explained domestic violence, I\u2019m sure you remember\u2026 Long story short, we listen to those podcasts, the Powell Family, the Q and A with the Professional and that got Kay and I talking about Domestic Violence of which I have absolutely no experience and I felt we really connected. Some point during our discussion I said something to the effect, you can always come home, like never stay in a place that\u2019s dangerous or with someone who hurts you because you feel trapped, you can always come home\u2026 which unless you had just listened to a horrifying story when would that ever come up naturally in conversation??? Never! But I just felt like she needed to know, even though I\u2019m just \u201cstepmom\u201d I\u2019m still your home, you can always<\/u><\/strong> come home\u2026 This conversation felt weird to me after the fact because Kay was on year 2 with a wonderful guy, in fact they lived together and from outward appearance they just seemed to be in love and peachy. Her dad and I had even talked numerous times that this might be the one guy that she marries, totally a part of our family at this point. (CRIME JUNKIE RULE ALERT: you never really know anyone!)<\/p>\n Two weeks ago, I get a call from Kay, she says, hey I need to ask you, do you mean what you said about I can come home? I was like Huh? Cause you know, three months have passed since that long slightly awkward ride but as she kept talking, she began to explain to me she didn\u2019t want to be a statistic, she doesn\u2019t want her story on Crime Junkie! I was so confused at first, but as she began to cry she says her boyfriend who we all thought was this amazing guy has some serious anger issues and the screaming at her had escalated to punching holes in the wall, tearing down the door when she was hiding from him, and even shoving her\u2026 Scary stuff! She was making the very hard decision to uproot her life and get away from her abuser \u2026 and how did she know to look for the signs, to reach out\u2026 BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR WORDS ON THAT EPISODE!!!!<\/p>\n Kay has moved \u201chome\u201d, and the boyfriend is still trying to \u201cwin her back\u201d but because she has knowledge now of how things can go from zero to murder, I feel she will stay away from him. Not to mention he knows we now know what he is capable of and are no longer buying the \u201csweetheart\u201d lie\u2026<\/p>\n Thank you again for everything you do!<\/p>\n Amanda<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/crimejunkiepodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/October-2023-The-Good-Letter.jpg” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”et_body_layout” alt=”The letter for The Good October 2023.” title_text=”October 2023 – The Good – Letter” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ align=”center”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Letter: Hello Ashley and Brit, I just wanted to let you know what an impact you and your podcast have had on our family\u2026.. And let you know, you are not just honoring the memories of victims, but you are in fact helping new \u201cwould be\u201d victims to not become victims\u2026 Let me explain\u2026 Been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44082,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"good":[],"class_list":["post-44081","the-good","type-the-good","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n