Castro v. Brown's Chicken and Pasta, Inc.

On January 8, 1993, at approximately 9 p.m., one or more persons entered the Brown’s Chicken & Pasta, Inc. (Brown’s), restaurant in Palatine, Illinois, and murdered seven people. The franchisees, Mr. and Mrs. Ehlenfeldt, had just entered into a franchise agreement with Brown’s approximately six months prior on May 29, 1992. The victims of the crime, the Ehlenfeldts, Michael Castro, Rico Solis, Guadalupe Maldonado, Thomas Mennes and Marcus Nellsen, were discovered at approximately 3 a.m. by a Palatine police officer. No one has been charged with these murders, and the investigation is ongoing.…