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May 25th, 1978.

It's an unseasonably warm Thursday evening in Kansas City, Missouri.

An Independence Avenue, one of the busier streets running through the city's northeast neighborhood,

as quieted down for the night. A man and a woman walked down the street together,

apparently wrapping up a date.

When the couple nears the corner of Independence Avenue and Prospect Avenue, they start to make

their way toward an Italian restaurant, the Villicapree. All the lights inside the restaurant are off and it's obviously closed.

But the couple doesn't appear bothered by that.

They're apparently just looking for a bit of privacy, so they turn into the doorway of the Villa Capri and spend a few moments there, locked in a romantic embrace.

Then, within a few minutes, they continue their walk down Independence Avenue, heading east.

If you were walking down Independence Avenue that night, you probably wouldn't have given this couple a second

thought, or if you did, you you just assume their decision to step into

the doorway for a few moments was spontaneous. A spur of the moment end to a romantic evening. But it wasn't.

wasn't.

Everything about this series of events had been meticulously planned. Once you got power a lot of power you don't care about the money no money.

For the Las Vegas Review Journal, in partnership with the Ma Museum, I'm Reed Redmond.

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