Siege at the Rialto

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

At approximately 5:00 p.m. on July 3, 1984, Alvin Freeman walked into the Rialto Restaurant on Woodward Avenue in Ferndale, Michigan, and sat at a table. Includes an interview with Mike Kitchen, he responded to the siege and later retired as Ferndale's Chief of Police.

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0:00.0	Jennifer Vanished sometime in the overnight hours.
0:04.4	Right now there is no trace.
0:06.1	Investigators say evidence leave them to believe that she's dead.
0:09.8	Stick my nose back in that trail. That's all I can do.
0:12.9	This is already gone.
0:15.9	Already gone.
0:17.4	Already gone.
0:24.1	The Rialto restaurant was a mainstay in Ferndale, Michigan.
0:27.6	A small city on the northern border of Detroit.
0:30.8	Opened in the mid-1920s, it changed hands just one time during its seven decade life.
0:37.7	The Rialto was a place where a local swim team could meet after practice.
0:42.2	Couples might go for a date night or people could pop in for a quick bite.
0:48.0	The large sign over the door lured diners in with promises of home cooking, cocktails,
0:53.8	and barbecue ribs.
0:56.0	Over its 70 year run, Rialto saw its fair share of eventful and colorful occurrences.
1:02.5	A fire in 1928 caused some minor damage to the kitchen.
1:08.3	In 1950, police attended the Woodward Avenue location after being called about a rogue
1:13.7	bat flying around the place.
1:17.6	An officer armed with an air rifle, entered the restaurant and fired three bullets at
1:22.6	the bat, solving the immediate issue, but I'm sure it created a bit of a mess for the
1:27.8	poor staff to clean up.
1:32.2	In March of 1981, the first of two tragedies struck the Rialto.
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