Brian Holly was challenged to bring back an interesting story from exactly 50 years before the night of the meeting: March 4, 1935. He turned up a murder in Donora, Pa.
Viola Dennis, aged 23, of Denora, Pa., died at the hands of her boyfriend, William Letherman, aged 25, of Charleroi, Pa. Letherman was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to two and a half years in the Allegheny County workhouse. His subsequent history was not discovered.
This was the RR&R's first meeting at Max's Allegheny Tavern, on Pittsburgh's North Side. Among those attending the meeting were: