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🗓️ 30 January 2019
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On the last night of his life, Father Alfred Kunz taped a radio show with co-host Peter Kelly and best friend Father Charles Fiore. Sometime after 10 p.m., Kunz was involved a struggle, which ended with an unknown assailant cutting his throat.
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0:00.0 | Previously on Unsolved. |
0:13.1 | In March 1998, Father Alfred Coons bled to death in the hallway of St. Michael's School in Dane, Wisconsin. |
0:21.9 | Someone slid his throat. There were so many possibilities for who would want him dead. I mean, he erupt many, many people |
0:27.9 | the wrong way. |
0:28.9 | The message of Father Alcunz is one that not everybody wanted to hear. |
0:33.9 | He was polarizing. People that liked Father Coons and liked the church were all in, |
0:40.9 | and those that weren't were all out. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is Unsolved |
0:48.2 | Season 3, The Devil You Know. I'm Gina Barton. The night before he was murdered, Father Coons recorded |
0:58.3 | several episodes of a radio show. It was called Our Catholic Family. It was co-hosted by Peter |
1:05.1 | Kelly. And that night, Father Coons' best friend, Father Charles Fiore, joined them. Peter Kelly told me that Father Coons had |
1:14.6 | recommended that Father Fiore take over the radio show. It wasn't that Father Coons didn't like doing the |
1:21.0 | show. It was just that he was really, really busy. And he thought Father Fiore was a man after his own heart. He could get across the same |
1:30.0 | message, but he was a lot less busy. The difference in the amount of free time the two priests had |
1:36.6 | came through even when Kelly was talking with them on the phone. When I'm talking to Father |
1:42.4 | Quinn's trying to set up a radio program or whatever, I had an agenda |
1:46.0 | list, bing, bing, bing. |
1:48.0 | And then I knew when Father Kunz is ready for the conversation to be over because he'd say, |
1:52.0 | Okay, Peter, which means hang up the phone, I got stuff to do. |
1:56.0 | It was hard to get Father Fury off the, and don't mention Italian cooking to him. |
2:03.8 | Because now you're going to be on for another hour as he talked about how his mother would make this or that or the other thing. |
2:05.6 | The other big difference between these two priests was that Father Coons didn't care about money |
2:11.4 | at all, and Father Fiori was actually pretty rich. |
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