Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 14 segments
Kerri takes us to Indianapolis, 1977, where a man walked into a mortgage office with a sawed-off shotgun and a grudge. Tony Kiritsis was convinced mortgage broker Dick Hall had cheated him out of his…
Well, you don't have to go in completely blind in my story because it's, well, you are going in blind, but it's not like my usual stories.
Oh.
Okay, picture it.
We're in Indianapolis.
It's February 8th, 1977.
Okay.
It's cold outside.
People are starting to wake up, go to work.
Downtown is starting to get the little hustle and bustle.
You know, people go into work, etc., etc., etc.
There's an office building on East Market Street.
Two men step outside on the sidewalk, but neither one of them have a coat on.
And remember, I told you it's freaking freezing.
But one of them has a sawed-off shotgun pressed against the back of the other man's head.
And running from that shotgun was a loop around the other guy's neck, like a wired loop.
So...
If he moved, it would force the shotgun to fire because he's essentially has a noose of wire around his neck.
Police get there practically immediately and so do TV cameras.
But no one could do anything because this guy has a wire rigged around his neck.
There ain't no way in hell my speech impediment would let me say wire rigged.
I cannot.
Hell, I couldn't even say it.
I was like, it wouldn't let me say, and I couldn't say the fucking word.
Well, wire rigged around.
Well, you don't have to go in completely blind in my story because it's, well, you are going in blind, but it's not like my usual stories.
Oh.
Okay, picture it.
We're in Indianapolis.
It's February 8th, 1977.
Okay.
It's cold outside.
People are starting to wake up, go to work.
Downtown is starting to get the little hustle and bustle.
You know, people go into work, etc., etc., etc.
There's an office building on East Market Street.
Two men step outside on the sidewalk, but neither one of them have a coat on.
And remember, I told you it's freaking freezing.
But one of them has a sawed-off shotgun pressed against the back of the other man's head.
And running from that shotgun was a loop around the other guy's neck, like a wired loop.
So...
If he moved, it would force the shotgun to fire because he's essentially has a noose of wire around his neck.
Police get there practically immediately and so do TV cameras.
But no one could do anything because this guy has a wire rigged around his neck.
There ain't no way in hell my speech impediment would let me say wire rigged.
I cannot.
Hell, I couldn't even say it.
I was like, it wouldn't let me say, and I couldn't say the fucking word.
Well, wire rigged around.
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