Karen Kilgariff
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3,962 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
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This goddamn business. Well, yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, yeah, they were. It's it's everybody's worst nightmare. It's kind of like, oh, so this this is actually what it comes down to really at the end. So Steve having to hear this and, of course, loving his grandmother and being in the middle of it said, can't you ever forgive her? And.
And Marderos was quoted as saying, God will forgive the devil before I can forgive my mother. Holy shit. And then he said, because this is a mother, not a devil, which is super sad. It's like, yeah, ultimately your mother turned her back on you when you were in your worst place. And also it's that thing of, I'm sure...
after years and years of busting her ass to make this restaurant work, he was going to come in and be like, here's how it's going to happen. So it's like giving bad news and bad news.
Yeah. Yeah. That's it's a stage of grief. Totally. But she, um, yeah, it's, it's hard. Yeah. Because when someone else has a disease, then it's all about them and how hard it is for them. You can't be mad at them. Like I'm sure she had tons of guilt. It was just this impacted problem.
Um, So anyway, on January 14th, 2003, Marderos, who had been bedridden and was dying, gets out of bed, puts on a white silk suit that he hadn't worn in 20 years, gets a nine millimeter handgun. and a .38 caliber revolver. Whoa. And walks down the stairs of his house. His wife, Rita, couldn't believe what she was seeing. Dude.
And she said, in the way it's written in this article, for a man so near death, cancer everywhere, he looked beautiful. So he's having some weird last... Yeah. Later on in the article, they went. He does not have that outfit on. OK. So they think that she's remembering it because it's this crazy moment. And she's remembering him basically as his beautiful young self that she fell in love with.
I'm going to cry. Because it's a really beautiful story. But she they lived across the street from each other in Beirut. And she he was 19 and she was 12. And he was like, no, no, no, no. That's not when it started. That's when she first noticed him because he was like the high roller. Yeah. Don't be freaked out. It's actually very sweet.
And then when she got older, like she was 18 and he was like 26. Yeah. They started dating. OK. So it's very sweet. Like she was in love with him all her life. Oh, I'm going to cry. So she said, you're too weak to go anywhere. Please get back in bed. And he said, I feel better. Don't worry. I'm just going to go down to Zancou and see my friends. So she, to see an old friend. And so she, you know.
Fuck. was like, all right, I'll see you soon. But he didn't go to Zancou. God damn it. He didn't go to Zancou. He went to his sister's house. The housekeeper lets him in. He sits at the table. The housekeeper gives him lemonade. His sister comes downstairs. She was in the shower. They sit and have a pleasant conversation and share some lemonade. Then...
Margaret, the mother, comes home from work around 2 p.m. and she greets him. She says hello to the daughter first and she says hello to him, puts her stuff down, sits at the table and the housekeeper goes downstairs to her apartment because she knows that they need to talk to each other. So they talk for about five minutes and it's just normal chit chat.
And then he reaches into his waistband for his gun and he shoots his sister across the table. Shut up. Point blank. And then his mother screams and runs for the door and he runs after her and he blocks the door and stands in front of her about like 15 feet away from the door, it said. And he raises the gun in Armenian. She says, don't shoot me, please. And he shoots her eight times.
He shoots her once, she goes down on the ground and then he stands over her and shoots her seven more times. Holy shit. He looks around the room and sees his 23-year-old nephew is on the stairs, frozen.
And he just turns around, goes over into the living room, sits on the couch and shoots himself in the head.
Mm hmm. So... Oh, my God. Now, Rita, the wife, well, at least at the time of this article, had to be in charge of all the Zankas. No. And it was this whole... They were in court about the trademark and who owned the rights to... It's this huge thing. And I didn't even get into it because there's... There's so much more to this article...
Who were rich kids, you know, who were like, who were rich kids. And she was a very traditional kind of old school wife where she didn't work. She didn't go to the store. She stayed home and was a housewife and took care of that family. And suddenly just got thrown into this. I would never want to raise rich kids, you know? No. Well, but also because that's not anything you have experience with.
So like they're having a whole life that you don't even understand.
So I don't know. That's, um, that's that rough story behind the best restaurant in LA.
Is it still in the family? I think they still do, but I'm not sure I didn't get, I like once the, um, murder part was over, that article goes on forever talking about all that part.
So I figure if people are super interested in who owns the rights to chicken, you can go for it, but I don't give a fuck.
There are a couple. And I've actually thought about this a lot because the line that journalist Mark Arax used when he wrote this article for Los Angeles Magazine about the Zancou chicken murders, that sit crooked and talk straight, which is an Armenian saying.
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