How a one-time Utah con man was born again in all the right ways

SALT LAKE CITY — The email pinged into my inbox with no warning:"Years ago you spoke with me on the streets of downtown Salt Lake City. I was conning people out of money. Saying I was stranded and needed to get home. When you confronted me I told you that most of the people asking for money on the street were heroin addicts. I believe that you wrote an article for the paper on this a few days later. For me this was a lifetime ago. I was a reckless, sad, lost child. Many things have transpi