Jo Piazza is on a mission to solve the 100 year old murder mystery of her great great grandmother, but she is also trying to connect with her family’s heritage and transport all of us to the beautiful and sometimes dangerous island of Sicily.
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Episode Transcript
Well, nobody knows for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
There's two stories. All I know is just obviously here.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Okay, So here's what I was told.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Every family has an origin story.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
My grandpa said, Piazza immigrated to the US.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The boys came over from Italy two by two.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So they came through all of island, settled in New York.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
They're not the mother behind.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
His wife stayed behind to tend to a family farm.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Mine happens to be a murder mystery.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Apparently still in this there's still froms of mafia.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
What I heard was that the mom was interested in
her land. She refused to sell.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Now this part, I don't know if it's true.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Mafia leisurely strow from.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
For as long as I can remember, my family's believed
that my great great grandmother, Lorenza Marsala was murdered in
So it's a story that's been passed down in one
hundred year game of telephone. The facts are constantly changing.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Did you hear how they killed her?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I never heard any details. I was asking somebody about
her and they just looked at me and they kept
saying morte, morte no, and they're like they shut it down.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They wouldn't talk, really.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
But now I'm going back to Sicily to find out
the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They knew about the murderers.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
They knew about it, right.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They did, They d They were frightened, and they didn't
want to start it. He said.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Was she murdered by the mafia for the family land,
killed for being a witch who crossed the wrong man?
Or was it an honor killing for betraying her husband?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He should? You'd never drop it. You got warped the
vendetta to continue.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Vendetta or not, I'm about to solve one hundred year
old murder. Join us as we travel across oceans and
generations to finally unravel the mystery of this Sicilian inheritance.
There's a landside, there's a landslide here. This is it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
This is a fikes.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
We have the absolutely certaincy, one hundred and ten percent.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This is it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'm Joe Piazza, coming soon from Kaleidoscope and iHeart podcasts
The Sicilian Inheritance. Subscribe now, I'd love to know what
the hell happened.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It wouldn't it be great to solve this mystery.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I feel good my Sicilian witchy powers. I feel like
we're on the right path.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Maybe this crazy story is true, it's unlaable.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Maybe it's this crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Story, it's your Listen to The Sicilian Inheritance on the
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