Content warning. This episode contains descriptions of murder, violence, and animal abuse.

Sometimes, scrolling through the hundreds of homicides we've documented on our murder sheet,

we come across a fascinating little fragment of a case. These are undercovered obscure killings

with just enough details to intrigue, but not enough to support a whole full-length episode.

Discovering these little slivers can be frustrating. We'd love to share the lesser-known cases with you all,

but there's often just not a lot there to research. But we think we have a solution. In this episode,

we'll be doing something a little different. Instead of dedicating the entire episode to one case,

we'll split our time between two different restaurant homicides. Those six decades separate

these slangs. The two stories have a number of strange details in common. Both took place in

major cities, namely Chicago and New York. Both took place in the evening hours. Both involved

unruly customers and the shooting death of the restaurant's owner. Perhaps most unusually,

both involved an animal that was housed within a restaurant, a creature who served to decorate

the space. Now let's get into two rather odd restaurant homicides.

My name is Anya Cain, and I'm Kevin Greenley, and this is the murder sheet, a weekly true crime

podcast. Anya and I connected over the burger chef murders, a 1978 unsolved case involving the

killings of four young restaurant employees. Now we're looking to track restaurant homicides.

To help us understand the patterns of these crimes, we created a spreadsheet of nearly a thousand

eatery related killings, the murder sheet. We'll be drawing on that data throughout season one

to give you a deep dive into undercover crimes. We don't just rely on skimming the headlines.

We dive into these cases to bring you in depth coverage. We're at the murder sheet,

and this is the bear and the bird.

First up, let's talk about the bear. People sometimes seem to go a little crazy around the

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