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Well, nobody knows for sure.

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There's two stories. All I

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know is just obviously here.

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Okay, So here's

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what I was told.

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Every family has an origin story.

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My grandpa said, Piazza immigrated

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to the US.

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The boys came over from Italy two by

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two.

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So they came through all of island, settled

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in New York.

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They're not the mother behind.

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His wife stayed behind to tend to

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a family farm.

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Mine happens to be a murder mystery.

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Apparently still in this there's

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still froms of mafia.

0:37

What I heard was that the

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mom was interested in her land. She

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refused to sell.

0:44

Now this part, I don't know if it's true.

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Mafia leisurely strow

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from.

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For as long as I can remember, my family's believed

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that my great great grandmother, Lorenza

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Marsala was murdered in So it's

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a story that's been passed down in one hundred

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year game of telephone. The

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facts are constantly changing.

1:09

Did you hear how they killed her?

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No?

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I never heard any details. I

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was asking somebody about

1:15

her and they

1:17

just looked at me and they kept saying morte,

1:20

morte no, and they're like they shut it down.

1:22

They wouldn't talk, really.

1:27

But now I'm going back

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to Sicily to find out the truth.

1:33

They knew about the murderers.

1:35

They knew about it, right.

1:37

They did, They d

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They were frightened, and they didn't

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want to start it. He said.

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Was she murdered by the mafia for the family

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land, killed for being a witch

1:48

who crossed the wrong man? Or

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was it an honor killing for betraying

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her husband?

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He should? You'd never drop

1:56

it. You got warped the

1:58

vendetta to continue.

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Vendetta or not, I'm

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about to solve one hundred year old murder. Join

2:07

us as we travel across oceans and generations

2:10

to finally unravel the mystery of

2:12

this Sicilian inheritance. There's

2:15

a landside, there's a landslide here. This is it.

2:17

This is a fikes.

2:20

We have the absolutely certaincy, one hundred and ten percent.

2:23

This is it.

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I'm Joe Piazza, coming soon

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The Sicilian Inheritance. Subscribe

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now, I'd love to know what the hell

2:35

happened.

2:36

It wouldn't it be great to solve this mystery.

2:39

I feel good my Sicilian witchy

2:41

powers. I feel like we're on the right path.

2:43

Maybe this crazy story is true, it's unlaable.

2:46

Maybe it's this crazy.

2:48

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