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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 of

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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 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. husband

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though, well, he can't

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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 Hernan. 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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