Podcasts · Crime Scene

Zankou Chicken Murders

16 Apr 2026 · 43 min · S1 E4 · Explicit

In Los Angeles, a family-built chicken chain becomes a citywide obsession, with lines out the door and garlic sauce that borders on myth. When the mogul behind its expansion walks into his sister’s Glendale home one morning and executes her and their 75-year-old mother before turning the gun on himself, the killings expose a buried history of illness, paranoia, and an inheritance war inside one of LA’s most beloved “mom-and-pop” empires.

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