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The Killer's Starbucks Smile as a Holiday Story
from CEO Assassinations & Christmas In New York | The Tim Dillon Show #420 · #420
3 min
Tim riffs on surveillance details of the shooter smiling at a Starbucks before the murder, framing the whole event as a strange, magical modern American Christmas story.
- Tim reflects on the victim dying while doing what he loved, working until the very end of his life.
- The killer was murdered in a hoodie in front of a hotel during an investor conference, with 'deny defend and depose' written on the shell casings.
- The killer was smiling at Starbucks before the shooting, elated and happy about what he was about to do.
- Tim frames the killing as an American holiday story, where the Grinch doesn't have a change of heart but gets shot outside a Manhattan hotel instead.
- Starbucks smells different in December than in July, and there's something special about it during the holidays.
- Tim describes the scene: the smell of coffee, the hustle of Manhattan, a gun in a pocket, a story unfolding with a smile on the killer's face.
- It's the holidays, a special time in America, in New York City—a moment that's still dark, mysterious, and magical.
- Christmas lights beautifully punctuate the blackness of the night as the victim takes their last breath outside the investor conference.
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