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True Crime Vault: Growing Up Buttafuoco

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ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

A suburban housewife is shot in broad daylight. A teenage girl is convicted of the crime. And a cascade of revelations would feed tabloid headlines and give the story its signature name: The Long Island Lolita. Originally broadcast on 11/8/2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Twas a night in November at your pal's Christmas party when an elf arrives.

0:08.0

Oh, with a toffee night latte!

0:10.0

Hey everyone, who wants a Starbucks? Ooy! Same one for me!

0:16.0

Get the group together for Starbucks festive favorites.

0:19.0

It's IRL season.

0:21.0

At a Starbucks near you.

0:25.0

A.

0:27.0

Subject of aid with tea while stocks last.

0:30.0

Hi everybody, it's Deborah Roberts, co-anchor of 2020. We're bringing you more

0:35.1

2020 each week with the 2020 true-crime vault. That's right you're going to

0:40.0

hear a story pulled from our archives shows that we just can't seem to get out of our heads,

0:46.0

and we think you're going to be drawn in too.

0:48.0

Thanks for listening.

0:50.0

Coming up. My name is Jesse Butterfuco. You may recognize the name but if you go.

1:05.0

Our name means fire thrower. But the flocco.

1:08.0

Thoephefroco.

1:09.0

Thoephe, you know, and now it means a joke like top 10 list on David Letterman.

1:15.0

Number three, get one more cheap laugh by saying the word,

1:18.0

butafuco.

1:19.0

It all started in May of 1992 with a gunshot.

1:25.0

And from then on, life as I knew it was insane.

1:29.0

You may even recognize the story,

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