![]() But a greater and more disturbing mystery arises when James tells Jackie that Curtis and three other neighborhood boys were found frozen to death in Frank’s meat locker during the 1965 riots. There, James Lanier, director of a youth group, tells her that Curtis was his cousin and used to work in Frank’s shop. ![]() So Jackie goes down to Frank’s old neighborhood, near Watts, and asks around. The shop was closed and sold long before Frank died, so technically the bequest was null, but Frank’s widow Mary asks Jackie to find out who Curtis was and why Frank wanted him provided for. Law student Jackie Ishida spots something funny when her grandfather Frank Sakai’s will leaves his Los Angeles grocery store to one Curtis Martindale. ![]() ![]() A mulligan stew of family saga, whodunit, and social history as a woman’s attempt to understand her grandfather’s will leads to the reopening of a murder case from the Watts riots. ![]()
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