Episode 340: The Victims: Milwaukee Ave Massacre

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On November 26, 1981, four men were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting massacre on Thanksgiving night in Chicago, Illinois. The murders make headlines as being the worst multiple slayings in the city in four years. The son of one of the men whose life was stolen is our guest on this very special episode of The First Degree. Four members of his family were taken in foul swoop, and he takes us through the heart breaking aftermath of that loss and the continued injustice following the release of the men convicted of the murders.

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0:00.0	The first degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:03.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	You see it on the paper.
0:11.0	You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	My family's murders were the breaking point for several people.
0:26.3	My family was beloved.
0:29.9	So when they killed three brothers and my mom's brother, some people were like, no, this is not
0:36.2	staying like this.
0:37.4	This cannot stay like it.
0:38.6	So there were deaths immediately.
0:41.7	Some of those people were killed immediately.
0:44.4	And some of them were running for years, but eventually found.
0:47.6	Shit got real.
0:49.5	And not a lot of people know this.
0:51.1	My uncle told me this almost an in his deathbed.
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