Roadtrip Indiana: The Burger Chef Murders
Imagine walking into a fast-food restaurant just after midnight. The lights are still on, there are cars outside, but something feels wrong. The back door is open, the safe is open and empty and so is the resturant. It's Friday night, November 17th, 1978 in Speedway, Indiana and somewhere between closing time and midnight, Jayne Friedt, Ruth Shelton, Danny Davis, and Mark Flemmonds had vanished. Within forty-eight hours, a property owner more than twenty miles away made a discovery in rural Johnson County. All four Burger Chef employees were found dead. Two had been shot, one had been stabbedn and one had suffered devastating blunt-force injuries. A robbery worth $581 had somehow ended with four people murdered. And almost immediately, investigators are confronted with a horrifying question: Why? Support the show
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