Hobgoblin grapes come from from Dulcich Farms. Dulcich, as it turns out, was owned by Jakov Dulcich and his wife, two Croatian immigrants in their mid-80s. i say 'was' because on April 11, 2018, Jakov was murdered by an unknown assailant while driving on a 2-lane road.
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Here's what the only witness, another driver, says happened: a Kia and Dulcich's SUV were coming towards him, taking up both lanes. The Kia was chasing the SUV. Witness swerved off the road, and Dulcich's SUV swerved, too, crashing into him. Then the driver of the Kia got out.
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The Kia driver shot through the window of Dulcich's SUV, killing him. The witness says there were two men in that car. The gunman turned to his passenger, said, "let me kill this guy too," got out, and held a gun to the witness. But when he pulled the trigger, nothing happened.
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The witness fought back and escaped by pulling the gunman's sweater over his face, which is the most Three Stooges shit i ever heard in my entire life, but whatever, i guess it worked and he got away and went to police???pic.twitter.com/k05T6Oysbr
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soon after, police located a burned-out car matching the description of the Kia. They arrested the car's owner, a man named Mariano Perez. BUT: the witness, after initially picking Perez as the "closest" out of a lineup, later says Perez wasn't the killer.https://tinyurl.com/yykmtcp8
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Perez ultimately wasn't convicted (there was also no murder weapon, motive, or DNA connection), and he walked. His lawyer claimed he seemed to be in good spirits. Except then Perez turned up dead, too.https://www.kget.com/news/detectives-launch-homicide-investigation-in-death-of-former-defendant-in-high-profile-murder-case/ …
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And then, a few months later, a separate employee who has worked for the Dulcich grape company for 25 years was targeted by a drive-by shooting on his home. He claimed the gunmen had fired on him twice before this, when he was coming home from work.https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/docs-attackers-fired-30-assault-rifle-rounds-at-mcfarland-home …
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As far as public info goes, the trail seems to go cold there. Jakov Dulcich's killer hasn't been found. Neither has the person who killed Perez. People theorize it was a hit job on Dulcich, but who would want to kill a nice elderly grape man and his employees? And why???
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Anyway this is me this weekend, basically this has been the one & only edition of True Grape Crimespic.twitter.com/vrXk2pX0i1
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really craving grapes today for some weird reason idk if i did them justice but i cannot stress enough that despite all the murder and stuff, these grapes are REALLY good
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