ALLEGEDLY*
THE MORGUECASE CLOSEDSeptember 22, 2026
▶ PLAY THIS CASE BLIND Loads the redacted lede with the answer hidden. Three strikes, same as the day it ran.

Case No. 59: Jon Bon Jovi

This big-haired New Jersey rock institution runs restaurants with no prices on the menu — you pay what you can, pay extra to cover a stranger, or work an hour in the kitchen and eat for free.

The full story

Jon Bon Jovi's JBJ Soul Kitchen, which opened in Red Bank, New Jersey in 2011, is a community restaurant with no prices: diners pay a suggested donation, pay forward for someone else, or volunteer in exchange for a meal. In September 2024 he was captured on video helping talk a woman off the ledge of Nashville's John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge.

The clues we handed out

— In September 2024 he was filmed on a Nashville bridge helping talk a woman back over the railing.

— The restaurants are called JBJ Soul Kitchen; the first opened in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 2011.

— His foundation has also built supportive housing for people coming out of homelessness.

— His most-shouted chorus insists, at high volume, that we're halfway there.

— Initials: J.B.J.

How this case played

ALLEGEDLY* edition No. 59. Three strikes to name Jon Bon Jovi, with a free clue unlocked after every miss.

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