What came first? The chicken or the murder?

I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. On the last day of his life, 56 year old cancer-laden, Mardiro's Isaac Hendrian get out of bed, put on a white suit,

grabbed a 9 millimeter handgun and a 38 caliber revolver revolver put them in his coat pocket, told his wife

he was going to his restaurant, Zancu Chicken, to see an old friend. He didn't go to Zancu

chicken. He murdered a couple of people. We're going to talk about the

Zancu Chicken murders and then we're going to eat Zancu Chicken. It's going to be full circle.

Full circle. It's really exciting.

Where does the chicken end and this story begin?

Who knows?

I mean, I know.

I'm hungry.

I'm hungry and I want to get through the story so I can eat the chicken. If you're from LA or you have lived here you

know Zancu chicken. It's this little kind of fast food, like very unpretentious rotisserie chicken

place and it's Armenian-Mediterranean style rotisserie chicken.

It's got hummus and pickled radishes and it's incredible.

Like it's very delicious. It's like a chain but a very low-key chain. Yeah, and it's a local it's it's kind of like the in and out of

Rotisserie chicken here that makes any sense at all. But it has a cult following to it too.

Like you see just people, it's in the media, like it's just a strange kind of like LA

culinary part of our culinary identity I guess. But the first

Zancuc chicken opened in 1962 in Beirut, Lebanon by Armenian-born Vartkis

is a kendrian.

His son, or grew up being fed the famous, famous Zancu

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