Chopped: David Viens

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Society & Culture, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this series we'll take a look at the restaurant industry to ask "What happens when good cooks go bad?". In this episode, a restaurateur in Southern California is suspected of murder when his wife disappears. What detectives discover would shock and horrify the community.

Resources:
"Witness: Cliff Jumper Threatened to Kill Wife", Nicole Mooradian for The Patch, Sept 14, 2012.

"Did California Chef David Viens Kill, Then Cook Wife?", 48 Hours, May 13, 2013.

"Los Angeles jury finds chef guilty of killing wife", The Associated Press, printed in The Florida Times-Union, September 28, 2012.

Links:
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Patreon - www.patreoncom/onceuponacrime

Transcript

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:08.0	It is not intended for children.
0:10.0	Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:26.0	Reality shows have become very popular in the last decade.
0:30.0	It seems that millions of people enjoy watching talented chefs create tasty dishes right in front of our eyes,
0:36.0	or watch the behind-the-scenes drama of a celebrity chef and his team serving culinary delights in one city or another's hottest restaurants.
0:45.0	For whatever reason, we can't get enough of shows like Iron Chef, The Great British Bake-Off, and Hell's
0:51.1	Kitchen. But what happens when good chefs go bad? In this
0:56.7	series, Chopped, I'll answer that question as I bring you cases of some
1:01.3	talented and successful
1:02.7	restaurateurs who turned away from the stove
1:06.0	and toured a life of crime.
1:08.5	In this first episode, I'll tell you
1:10.6	about a successful restaurant owner
1:12.2	with a beautiful wife who was respected in his community.
1:16.1	But the Vien's home would hold many dark secrets, drug dealing, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence.
1:24.0	One October night in 2009, things would boil over, and Don Vians would never be seen again.
1:31.7	When her husband David finally revealed what happened to her,
1:35.0	it would shock even the most experienced homicide detectives.
1:39.0	This is Chapter 1 of Chopped,
1:41.0	the case of Dawn and David Vians.
1:43.8	David Vians. David and Don Vians had been married for almost a dozen years when they moved to Lomita in Southern California in 2008 and opened a restaurant they would call Time Contemporary Cafe.
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