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Jill Evans has it all, a big
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house, a fast car, and a great
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career as a decorated police sergeant
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in Wales. But when it comes to love,
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she can never seem to get things right. And after
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multiple failed engagements, Jill is starting
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to think it's never gonna happen for her.
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That is, until she connects online
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with a charming, handsome, and successful man
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named Dean Jenkins. He's a self proclaimed
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entrepreneur with a business that's a bit
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of a mystery. After a few dates, they go
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on a spontaneous holiday to Italy
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and Dean pays with bags full of
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cash. From the outside, there may
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be some red flags. But Jill doesn't care.
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He's the one. In just six months
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in, Jill finds out she's pregnant
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and the two make plans to spend the rest of
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their lives together. But the night after
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Halloween, Jill receives a shocking text
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that will change everything, threatening
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to take away her dreams of happiness, her
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career, and maybe even her freedom. Wondery
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and Novel's new podcast, Stolen
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Hearts, tells the intricate love story
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of Jill and Dean and how opposites
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really do attract. You're about to hear
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Like a lot of small towns in the UK
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have a food west manages to be both
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charmingly quaint and slightly
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depressing. It's in Wales
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about a hundred miles from the capital Cardiff,
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It's a small community nestled in
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the countryside, the sort of place
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where medieval churches mix with empty
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shops and greasy kebab houses. But
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for those that are born there, many
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choose not to leave. Because
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despite the slightly rundown high street,
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It's the kind of place that you can get on with
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your life without too much
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fuss. It's very quiet.
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It's peaceful. It's close
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to the sea. And where
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we live. It's just your bog
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standard residential cul
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de sac and
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nothing out of the ordinary ever tends to
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happen. And
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Sam, one of the fifteen thousand residents
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in Haverford West, loves that about
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this place. Except
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today, that's going
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to change. It's
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the third of November, two thousand and
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six, and Halloween has come
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and gone. Leftover pumpkins dot
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across doorways unsmashed, it.
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It's getting late as Sam winds her way
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through the dark roads lined with trees and
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fields leading up to her own quiet
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street. The headlights start
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to sketch images of an unusual sight
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ahead of her, strangers on her road
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Lots of them. And they're all in
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uniforms. Wow.
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There are just police cars everywhere
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here. Lying up both sides of
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the road,
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But
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she doesn't stop and stare because it's none
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of her business. What's going on? I
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went into my house. Chucked
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off my work gear, getting my uniform,
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or chucked in the wash and things. Her
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husband though, well, he
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can't resist. I hear my husband
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shout
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quick, come quick, come look at the window. They're
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searching Jill's house.
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Sam and her husband are not the only ones
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showing neighborly concern. Like
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you see neighbors just peering around
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corners and peeping over fences. Everybody
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could see everything open all
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the curtains, every blind officer
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is rifling through all of her things,
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pulling out bits and pieces from everywhere,
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picking things apart,
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Upstairs, downstairs. The
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housing question belongs to a police
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officer, a neighbor everyone
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in the road knows. Sergeant
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Jill Evans. The gossip
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was just off like wildfire through
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the street and who could blame them.
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I mean, a raid like this in their town.
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And for a police officer, no less.
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It's been a long time since anything this
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exciting happened in Havafood West.
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And Sam's husband has a theory as to
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what or who might be behind
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the
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commotion. He said I wonder if it's
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him. And
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I said it's him and him. He said,
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well, the guy she was with, I Wondery
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if there's something to do with him. And
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I said, well, Gosh, it
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could be. It's
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been seventy two hours since a man
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was shot dead, and the trail
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has led the police to Jill's door.
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A trail lined with tens of thousands
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of pounds, broken hearts,
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and shower gel, Havaford
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West has never seen anything like
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it, but the truth is that this
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little town is about to witness one
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of the greatest and strangest love
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stories the world has ever known.
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Hey, Prime members. You can binge
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all six episodes of stolen hearts,
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ad free on Amazon Music. Download
5:09
the Amazon Music app today.
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