Amanda Seyfried is digging into her family roots. The "Mean Girls" actress was stunned when she discovered that her third great-grandfather, John P.
Ebert, was brutally murdered in 1905.The unsettling family secret was revealed on an episode of PBS’s "Finding Your Roots." "Oh, my God!
What?!" Seyfried said as she read a newspaper article from the time, putting her hands to her forehead in disbelief. "John P.
Ebert, the well-known retired baker, a good citizen and an inoffensive man, was shot three times by an unknown assailant on the back step of his home at Washington and Lumber Streets at 9:30 [p.m.]," the article read.
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