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.

A Gentle Thief is written and performed by Amanda Dickson.  Dickson hosts Utah's Morning News, one of America's highest-rated regional news broadcasts.  Hear her weekday mornings from 5:00-9:00 on Salt Lake City's KSL Newsradio. 

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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 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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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 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 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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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 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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