It was a cold early morning, Jan. 8, 1993, and it was shattered by six words blasting from a police radio: “Five in the cooler at Brown’s.”

Quickly, the details emerged, the horror spread and things got worse. There were seven people dead, the owners of a Palatine restaurant and five of their employees, fatally shot with a .38-caliber revolver, covered in blood, some shot six times and some only once.

Remember? This would come to be known as the Brown’s Chicken massacre.

The slaughter and the subsequent and frustrating search for the perpetrators and eventual murder trial captivated the media , traumatized suburban parents everywhere and became part of what writer Patrick Wohl writes is America’s “fixation with true crime.”

“In an odd way, reading or watching a true crime story can s

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