Marian Volpa Pioppi was a 30-year-old white/Caucasian woman from Vineland, New Jersey, part of a close-knit Italian American farming family whose homes clustered along Piney Hollow Road in nearby Franklin Township. On the evening of November 17, 1950, she was at the modest Pioppi farmhouse with her mother, Theresa Biagi Pioppi, and other relatives when the quiet of the South Jersey countryside was shattered by gunfire. The violence began up the road at the truck farm owned by Marian’s brother-
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