| It was a chilly Friday evening, November 17, 1978 a | | | | $600 missing from the register. |
| little before eleven and night. The kids working the | | | | Police believe that a robbery took place right as the |
| local Burger Chef on Crawfordsville Road in | | | | hamburger joint was closing for the night. Whatever |
| Speedway, Indiana were about a half an hour away | | | | happened, the four employees were kidnapped and |
| from closing the shop and ready to lock up and do | | | | taken from Speedway. A massive search by police |
| what kids do on a Friday night. One sixteen year old | | | | and volunteers ensued. |
| eyewitness would later tell police that two Caucasian | | | | Two days later, on a Sunday afternoon, the four |
| men in their thirties were suspiciously hanging out in | | | | murdered bodies were found in the woods twenty |
| the parking lot. | | | | miles away. One boy was beaten and the autopsy |
| There were four employees on duty, Jayne Friedt, | | | | revealed he died of blunt force trauma to the head. |
| Daniel Davis, Mark Flemmonds, and Ruth Ellen Shelton. | | | | One of the girls had been stabbed twice in the chest |
| The very next morning, an employee discovered the | | | | with a hunting knife. The other two were shot |
| back door of the restaurant wide open and about | | | | execution style with a .38 caliber gun. |