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Already Gone Podcast

The Brown's Chicken massacre

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

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

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

January 8, 1993, Palatine IL - seven people are murdered inside a Brown's Chicken. It would take nearly a decade to bring the killers to justice.

Written by Jessica Ann. Researched by Haley Gray. Audio production by Bill Bert.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.

0:04.4

Right now there is no trace.

0:06.0

The investigators say evidence leads them to believe that she's dead.

0:09.8

Stick my nose back in that trail. That's all I can do.

0:13.0

This is already gone.

0:16.0

Already gone.

0:17.0

Already gone.

0:24.0

Brown's chicken came from humble beginnings.

0:27.0

From being sold out of a trailer in 1949 to 100 locations in 1987,

0:34.0

Brown's chicken was the business success story that every entrepreneur inspires to.

0:40.0

When Kentucky fried chicken entered as their biggest competition,

0:44.0

they adapted, becoming Brown's chicken in pasta and adding family-sized pasta dishes to the menu.

0:51.0

Even after the death of John Brown, the company's founder, in late December 1992,

0:57.0

the business continued to hold its own in the quick service restaurant industry.

1:03.0

The Brown's chicken in pasta location in Palatine, Illinois was owned by Dick and Lynn Eilenfeld.

1:10.0

After Dick was laid off from his job with Group W cable in 1990,

1:14.0

he was looking for a new job and a way to support his family.

1:19.0

After having no luck finding employment, Dick started researching the food service industry.

1:27.0

According to the Chicago Tribune, it was typical for an out-of-work executive

1:32.0

to become a franchise owner with one quarter of new franchise applications being made by former executives.

1:40.0

Dick decided that Brown's chicken was a good fit,

1:43.0

and after two years of fruitlessly looking for a job,

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