29 - Brown's Chicken Massacre (Part 1 of 2)
Beyond Contempt True Crime
Renee Lynn
4.4 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dick and Lynn Ehlenfeldt bought a Brown’s Chicken franchise in Palatine, Illinois and created an environment where all the employees felt like it was their second family. On the night of January 8th, 1993, everyone working in the store was murdered and the case remained unsolved for 9 years.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains adult themes and graphic violence. |
| 0:04.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:07.0 | A commercial-free version of this podcast is available on Patreon for $1 per month. |
| 0:12.3 | Patreon.com forward slash Beyond ContemptPontempt Podcast. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Renee, and this is Beyond contempt true crime. |
| 0:37.7 | I don't have much of a preamble for this episode. |
| 0:42.0 | I've never eaten at this restaurant and actually never even heard of it, |
| 0:44.3 | even though Illinois is one of my neighboring states. |
| 0:47.9 | The restaurant industry can be a brutal work environment. |
| 0:52.1 | The people who owned and worked in this restaurant were wonderful individuals. |
| 0:55.8 | All the employees said the owners treated them like family. |
| 1:02.4 | You're listening to Episode 29, Brown's Chicken Massacre, Part 1 of 2. |
| 1:10.0 | Richard Earl Eldenfeld was born to parents Donald and Rachel on November 10, 1942, |
| 1:13.2 | imported to Wisconsin, which is a small town 30 minutes north of Madison. Dick's father was the mayor of Columbus, Wisconsin, where he had |
| 1:19.1 | grown up, but eventually settled into running a laundry service. His family was profoundly religious |
| 1:25.1 | and attended a Methodist church. |
| 1:29.7 | Dick was an avid cyclist. |
| 1:32.0 | He loved to read and enjoyed traveling. |
| 1:35.5 | He never shied away from a good remodeling project. |
| 1:40.6 | His friends thought he was a positive, down-to-earth person whose glass was always half full. |
| 1:46.0 | Dick was a kind and generous individual, but was funny and would often make jokes in his own expense. Lynn Ann Weese was born to parents Nathan and Joyce on October 6, |
| 1:52.5 | 1943 in Clintonville, Wisconsin. Lynn's father was a county judge, and her mother was a teacher. |
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