Bryan Cranston was once wanted for murdering a chef: ‘Million ways to kill someone’

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“Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston opened up about his wild 20s, which involved near-misses with murder, during Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘s Dinner’s on Me podcast.Cranston, 67, told an anecdote about traveling the country with his brother Kyle in the ‘70s when they stopped in Florida.

There, they got jobs as waiters in a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn, where one of their co-workers was a “cantankerous” chef named Pete Wong. “There was just no way on earth you were ever going to get on his good side…We’d all discuss how rotten and mean Peter Wong is, and we’d all discuss, if one were to do away with Peter Wong, how would one do it?” Cranston said, noting how some fellow staffers jokingly suggested the use of a “meat grinder” or hitting him over the head with “his own wok.”“We would laugh,” he said. “You’re in a kitchen, there’s a million ways to kill someone in a kitchen.”But, soon after Cranston and his brother left Florida to continue their travels, “Little did we know that right at the time we said goodbye and left the job, Peter Wong went missing.

He was not found for a week, week and a half, two weeks,” the Emmy-winning actor said. When his body was found in the trunk of a car, people pointed fingers at Cranston. “Little did we know they put out an APB [all-points bulletin] on us and to find us, we were somewhere in the Carolinas, I think at that point,” he revealed.

However, the real culprits were arrested before police found the Cranstons (Billy Wayne Waughtel and two accomplices were arrested for the murder.