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Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

S5 Ep198: Chopped: David Viens

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 42 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.

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0:38.0

It is not intended for children.

0:41.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:43.0

Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

0:56.0

Reality shows have become very popular in the last decade.

1:00.0

It seems that millions of people enjoy watching talented chefs create tasty dishes right in front of our eyes,

1:06.4

or watch the behind-the-scenes drama of a celebrity chef and his team serving culinary delights

1:11.8

in one city or another's hottest restaurants.

1:14.4

For whatever reason, we can't get enough of shows like Iron Chef, The Great British Bakeoff,

1:20.6

and Hell's Kitchen. But what happens when good chefs go bad? In this

1:26.8

series, Chopped, I'll answer that question as I bring you cases of some

1:31.4

talented and successful

1:32.8

restaurateurs who turned away from the stove and

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