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On the evening of October 19, 1974, a mass killing at the Donna Lee Bakery in New Britain, Connecticut left six people dead. The victims had been forced to lie face down in a back room and were shot in the head. Among those killed was William J. Donohue Jr., a 27-year-old White male.

Investigators first considered robbery as a motive, but later developed a theory that the violence aimed to eliminate witnesses after one of the victims, Michael P. Kron, recognized an assailant. Two local men were arrested: Ronald F. Tiny Piskorski, 25, a former bar bouncer, and Gary B. Schrager, 31, described as a drifter. In December 1975 Piskorski was convicted of the murders and sentenced to 150 years to life. Schrager later pleaded guilty to four of the six murders, said he had been present but denied firing the shots, and was sentenced as an accessory to 20 years to life.

Did anyone who knew William Donohue or frequented the Donna Lee Bakery in 1974 see anything that could add detail to what happened that night?