This man and his wife were shot in their own driveway. It's a case that took nearly 20 years to catch the killer. I'm just watching the episode now.
The narrator keeps saying the detective's name wrong. It's not Lillyfield. It's Lillienfeld.
"It's not your looks that keep me here, Peg. It's mine." -Al Bundy
Story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries years ago.
shareThe narrator keeps saying the detective's name wrong. It's not Lillyfield. It's Lillienfeld.I know it LOOKS that way, but he may not have been mispronouncing it at all. I say that because of something I learned many ages ago: names are basically exempt from the usual rules of pronunciation. In other words, if someone names their child Xgnqhsiep but says it's pronounced "Sally," Sally it is! So in the case of Lillienfeld, it's possible that his family's way of saying it ignores the "n" and makes the last "e" long.
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I know what you mean. Some people with that name probably do pronounce it that way. Not this guy though. People pronounce my last name a lot because of a more common spelling/pronunciation. Although neither name is super common.
"It's not your looks that keep me here, Peg. It's mine." -Al Bundy