Fan Favorite - "Murder by the Slice"
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Today's episode is a fan favorite. The audio in the story has been remastered for today's episode. On a spring night in 2009, a middle-aged married couple was closing up the local pizza place they ran in a small Virginia mountain town. The husband walked to the back of the restaurant and grabbed a large bucket of ice. He carried the bucket out the back door and dumped the ice into the grass. He stood up, and for a moment, he just felt the cool breeze on his face. It was a nice change from the hot pizza ovens he'd been working around all night. But then, right before he turned to go back inside, he heard screaming coming from inside the restaurant.
What events unfolded on the night of the murders at Pizza Plus?
Without hesitation, he dropped the bucket and ran inside. But when he discovered what was happening in there, all he could do was turn and run for his life. But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, tell the follow button you have a hilarious joke and then spend 20 minutes on the setup, but then never give them the punchline. Okay, let's get into today's story.
On Sunday night, March 29th, 2009, 48-year-old Valerie Looney pulled a fresh hot pizza from an oven at Pizza Plus, a busy restaurant in a small mountain town in Tazewell County, Virginia. Valerie slid the pizza onto a serving tray and then walked around the front counter and delivered it to a booth filled with local police officers. The officers thanked Valerie by name and then dug into their pizza. valerie checked on the other diners who had filled up almost all of the booths inside the restaurant and then afterward she headed around the front counter and went back into the kitchen and there she saw her husband harvey standing by one of the pizza ovens valerie was short with crop brown hair and harvey was a big guy with gray hair and a bushy beard but despite the huge differences in their physical appearances everybody who knew them thought they had always looked perfect together
Harvey pointed to the clock hanging on the wall by the oven, and he grinned at his wife. He said it was only a few more hours until their 29th anniversary. Valerie smiled back and then jokingly told Harvey to get back to work. Valerie had been the manager at Pizza Plus for over 10 years, and her husband Harvey had been working for her for the past seven years. The couple knew a lot of people would shudder at the thought of working alongside their spouse day in and day out, but it was actually what Valerie and Harvey had always wanted. In fact, while other people might dream about, you know, making a ton of money or traveling the world, all Valerie and Harvey ever wanted was just to spend as much time together and also with their son Chris as possible.
And so Valerie and Harvey working together accomplished a portion of that goal. Harvey got back to work like his wife had jokingly suggested, and he began to prepare some pizza dough for the next order. As he did that, Valerie stood up on her toes and gave Harvey a kiss on the cheek, and then she headed back into the restaurant's dining room. Pizza Plus was a really popular restaurant in this little town. The entire town only took up a few square miles, and it was surrounded by thick woods and then mountains beyond that. And at times, the people who lived there could feel isolated from the rest of the world. And so Pizza Plus had become almost like a meeting place where everybody could get together and feel connected to their community, at least for a little while.
And Valerie and Harvey had really embraced that aspect of their work. The two of them always seemed so happy and welcoming to patrons. I mean, they wanted their customers to feel like they were hanging out with family when they were there. Valerie made her way through the dining room, and she checked in with the police officers to make sure their pizza was good.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:36
2
What events unfolded on the night of the murders at Pizza Plus?
0:36–4:53
3
How did the community react to the tragic events involving Valerie and Harvey?
4:53–7:08
4
What evidence did investigators find at the crime scene?
7:08–10:20
5
Who were the initial suspects in the murders of Valerie and Harvey?
10:20–12:55
6
What role did Brian Lee play in the investigation?
12:55–13:18
7
How did the police connect Homer to the case?
13:18–16:25
8
What new interrogation techniques were introduced to solve the case?
16:25–37:01