On the evening of October 19, 1974, John Salerni, a 55-year-old White male and the proprietor of the Donna Lee Bakery in New Britain, Connecticut, was working in his shop, which he had named after his daughter. That night, a robbery at the bakery escalated into a mass murder, a crime that would be remembered as one of the most vicious in the state's history. Salerni, along with a bakery employee, Helen Giansanti, and four customers, Michael Kron, Thomas and Anne Dowling, and William J. Donahue,
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