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Speaker 1: Please be advised the following episode contains distressing scenes of

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Speaker 1: murder involving children. Parental discretion is advised. You're listening to Unexplained,

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Speaker 1: Season five, episode twelve, Profit and Loss, Part two of two.

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Speaker 1: With the local neighborhood still reeling from the shock of

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Speaker 1: the brutal evangelist and murders, down at Detroit's Grand River

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Speaker 1: Avenue Police station, Detective Lieutenant John Whitman and detectives Charles

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Speaker 1: Searle and Earl Switzer were joined by Detective Fred from

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Speaker 1: as they trawled through the various correspondents taken from Benny's office,

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Speaker 1: having found a number of letters from the extortionist group

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Speaker 1: the Black Hand, and one in particular, sent six months

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Speaker 1: prior to the murders, ending with the line this is

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Speaker 1: your last chance. Police were beginning to suspect that they

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Speaker 1: were responsible for the deaths, but there was one other

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Speaker 1: letter that gave them even more pause for thought. It

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Speaker 1: was addressed to A Lewis Evangelista of Coreopolis, Pennsylvania, a

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Speaker 1: name the detectives knew well. Back in nineteen twenty six,

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Speaker 1: a man was found dead outside thirty five thirty two

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Speaker 1: Saint Auban Avenue, not far from Santina and Benny Evangelista's home,

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Speaker 1: having been shot multiple times. The man was later identified

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Speaker 1: as thirty three year old Felis Argento, a known enforcer

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Speaker 1: of the Black Hand. Argento had been ambushed to just

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Speaker 1: outside the property by Angelo Paperot and his son in

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Speaker 1: law Louis Evangelista. It seemed more than a little coincidental

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Speaker 1: that Lewis was also named Evangelista, leading the police to

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Speaker 1: speculate that perhaps he and Benny were related, or, more tragically,

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Speaker 1: that Benny and his family had been murdered in a

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Speaker 1: case of mistaken identity. The police interviewed Lewis at his

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Speaker 1: home in Coreopolis two days later, where he gave his

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Speaker 1: version of events. As he explained, he and his stepfather

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Speaker 1: police had shot Argento out of self defense when he

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Speaker 1: came to collect five thousand dollars of so called protection

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Speaker 1: money from his stepfather. The pair had warned police of

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Speaker 1: the impending danger, but were forced to take matters into

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Speaker 1: their own hands when the detectives assigned to protect them

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Speaker 1: failed to show up. After fleeing to Pontiac, twenty miles

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Speaker 1: but eventually let go After Detroit police informed them of

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Speaker 1: their circumstances, the officers in Pontiac agreed not to book

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Speaker 1: them because they were essentially running for their lives from

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Speaker 1: a criminal organization, and to do so would have put

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Speaker 1: them in mortal danger. In short, Lewis knew only too

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Speaker 1: well how seriously the black Hands should be taken. But

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Speaker 1: as for Benny had a letter with his name and

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Speaker 1: address on it. He claimed to have no idea. The

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Speaker 1: pair were distant relations, he said, but hadn't spoken in years.

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Speaker 1: Then about the same time, another letter arrived at the

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Speaker 1: Grand River Avenue station, simply written on a folded up

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Speaker 1: piece of paper. It read, my conscience bothers me since

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Speaker 1: I killed that family of six. So we'll confess and

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Speaker 1: say I am sorry. I live on Lincoln Avenue in

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Speaker 1: the fifty four hundred block, but I won't give the

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Speaker 1: house number because I want thinking time. Searched the houses

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Speaker 1: and you will find the bloody hatchet in a suitcase.

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Speaker 1: I am ready for the worst punishment I can get.

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Speaker 1: Two officers were promptly dispatched to search the location, but

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Speaker 1: were unable to find any suitcase. In the end, investigating

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Speaker 1: officers determined the letter to be nothing but a hoax,

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Speaker 1: and Detroit's Finest were once again left empty handed. Having

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Speaker 1: reached something of a dead end, investigators turned to Benny's Bible,

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Speaker 1: the Oldest History of the World, for clues. The book

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Speaker 1: was republished online by Jarrett Koebec in two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: painstakingly typing it up from one of only three original

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Speaker 1: was also gut wrenchingly awful, while at the same time offering,

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Speaker 1: The book, which had in fact been ghost written owing

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Speaker 1: either to Benny's lack of English or typewriting abilities, centered

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Speaker 1: largely around the wanderings of a prophet called Meal, as

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Speaker 1: in the first section of the Torah, known as Basheet

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Speaker 1: the Bible. Though the press and police were quick to

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Speaker 1: attempting to establish a cult through his teachings. There's little

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Speaker 1: up in his basement window reading Great Celestial Planet exhibition

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Speaker 1: his peculiar religious sanctum, though for what purpose exactly is

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Speaker 1: if Benny had only concocted it all as an elaborate

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Speaker 1: watched from afar, Beccherini had long been concerned that Benny's

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Speaker 1: thinking Benny had succeeded in summoning something unspeakable from the

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Speaker 1: very darkest depths of Hell, only for it to then

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Speaker 1: morning of Sunday, July fourteenth, another letter arrived, this time

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Speaker 1: sent to Detroit's Wayne County Police Station and addressed to

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Speaker 1: the station Sheriff Irah Wilson. The letter, which being dated

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Speaker 1: July sixth, was written only three days after the murders,

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Speaker 1: read as follows, Sir, just a few lines to introduce

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Speaker 1: to you a name of a good man of which

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Speaker 1: I believe he will lead the road to discover the

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Speaker 1: brutal slaughter of the evangelists if you only give him

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Speaker 1: the power to act the investigation. This man lives at

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Speaker 1: fourteen eighty five East Grand River in lansinc. His name

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Speaker 1: is George Prico. Later that day, two detectives made their

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Speaker 1: way to Lansing to interview Prico, a tailor who worked

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Speaker 1: he did confess to know something about Benny. According to Prico,

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Speaker 1: In fact, as some have pointed out, in the preface

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Speaker 1: of his book, Ben, he appeared to have a prophetic

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Speaker 1: Over time, he came to suspect his misfortune was due

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Speaker 1: telling him that the moment he removed it, he would

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Speaker 1: was never found. As for Techio, police were unfortunately unable

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Speaker 1: As frustrating as all this was, the irony of it

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Speaker 1: the crimes, concluding the Umberto, Techio was the murderer. Two

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