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We want to give you all a heads up, but our live show will be appearing on this coming Wednesday.

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Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder and violence.

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There was only one bullet in the chamber.

That's what the stranger said, as he aimed his gun at Joseph Principe.

Click. Nothing happened, but the snap of the trigger must have rang in Principe's skull.

Maybe his thoughts fled back to earlier, before this nightmare began.

July 22nd, 1959, had just been another Monday at Slannics,

with Principe's tending bar at his tavern slash bowling alley,

situated at 85 Division Avenue in East Islip.

Click. As Principe chatted with two of his patrons at the bar, a husky man had sontered in.

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