Posted on 01/31/2024 2:34:36 PM PST by DallasBiff
Just after midnight on November 17, 1978, a teenage boy pulled into the parking lot of the Burger Chef where he worked in Speedway, Indiana. The lights were on, so he figured his coworkers were still inside cleaning up. Deciding to pay them a visit, he walked up to the back door and noticed it was open, which was odd. When he entered, he realized the store was empty and the cash-register drawers were on the floor.
Two days later, the four young people who should’ve been closing up that night were found dead in a neighboring county. More than 40 years later, what happened remains a total mystery.
After the teenager who discovered the scene called the police, the store manager came in and determined that $581 in cash was missing. Still, the police didn’t assume the employees had been robbed and kidnapped. At first, they thought the four young people working that night—16-year-olds Daniel Davis and Mark
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Last time I ate at Burger Chef was in the 60’s and I can still remember the distinctive taste of their mustard. Haven’t found anything like it.
“The police were idiots.”
not at all unusual back in the day ... much of that police idiocy has been thinned out, but not all [e.g., JonBenét Ramsey, Boulder case]
I use the Opera browser and the link takes you to https://www.aenetworks.tv
Opera has a built in VPN.
Are you debating that Indianapolis has been known for killings forever?
There was a Burger Chef not far from the Elementary School I went to. Cheeseburgers were 15 cents.
We used to run there and back during our lunch break.
I haven’t thought about that in decades.
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Why was Hillary Clinton in Speedway, Indiana?
There was a Burger Chef in Flagstaff on Route 66. Back in the ‘60s there was a commercial jingle-song:
“For fif-teen cents
A nickel and a dime
At Burger Chef you can eat there any time.
For fif-teen cents, that is all you need,
You get french fried potatoes
Big thick shake
Or the best darn fifteen cent hamburger yet.”
Can’t say it was gourmet; but it was sure affordable.
Oh the times, they are a-changin’...
s with others here I fondly remember Burger Chef from my youth in Indiana.
It was right next to the 3D (Danners Discount Department Store) which I still say was better than the K-mart or any Walmart.
We lived in a trailer park very close to Speedway 1963-65.
We lived across the road from the owner-manager, but after a disagreement he made us move.
I won’t go into details, but he wanted to dictate who we could have as visitors.
His name was Tony Kiritsis. Maybe you remember him.
You may be confusing Speedway with somewhere else.
You must be high. Speedway is fine.
Me too. The big chef was my go to burger.
anything more on the Obama chef’s mysterious death????
Thank you! I miss the place.
Ha! My dad used to talk about Henry’s burger chain once in a while. “What happened to Henry’s?” He thought they were as good or better, than McDonalds.
I remember Jay’s Potato chips being better than Lay’s. Betamax didn’t win out in the VCR wars either.
Back then, 4 teens dead, brutal murder mystery, was a rare thing, and cause for comment.
Tiday it’s just another day that ends in “Y”.
NOBODY beats Whataburger, though!
I loved Whataburger’s, especially the jalapeno burger. Sadly there are not Whataburger’s in Indiana.
There are 1628 Hardee’s left, predominantly in the southeast. I grew up on Hardee’s and remember Gilbert Giddyup and Speedy McGreedy. McGreedy was Hardee’s version of the Hamburgler.
A lot of the Hardee’s outside the southeast became Carl’s Jrs when Carl’s bought Hardee’s in the late 90’s.
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