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The Burger Chef Cold Case: Four Murders Still Unsolved Over 40 Years Later
A&E ^ | 7/3/19 | Becky Little

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: 19781117; beckylittle; buddyellwanger; burgerchef; crawfordsvilleroad; crime; danieldavis; godsgravesglyphs; indiana; jaynefriedt; johnsoncounty; julieyoung; markflemmonds; mcdonalds; ruthellenshelton; scottrsanders; speedway
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To: Semper Vigilantis

In & Out easily beats Whataburger


41 posted on 01/31/2024 6:32:12 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Incrediburgable!


42 posted on 01/31/2024 6:57:41 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Blueway

“His name was Tony Kiritsis. Maybe you remember him.”

Oh yea, I remember him. He’s the guy that had the shotgun wired to the back of his landlord’s? neck. Broadcast live on TV.


43 posted on 01/31/2024 7:05:37 PM PST by caver
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To: MplsSteve

Hardees still big down South. One in every town in Alabama and Georgia.


44 posted on 01/31/2024 7:06:32 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: AFreeBird

Yea, I must be high.
There is no where inside of I-465 that is safe.


45 posted on 01/31/2024 7:07:25 PM PST by caver
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To: Zack Attack

“There are 1628 Hardee’s left, predominantly in the southeast.”

Wow, I didn’t know there were that many left.


46 posted on 01/31/2024 7:08:52 PM PST by caver
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To: Semper Vigilantis

“NOBODY beats Whataburger, though!”

Whataburger scene from Vengeance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKloIxmQm4


47 posted on 01/31/2024 7:19:04 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: dfwgator

Too soon!


48 posted on 01/31/2024 8:00:24 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: linMcHlp

I remember as a young boy in the 60s my uncle coming up on a Friday afternoon and telling my cousins and I, “Let’s go to Burger Chef.” They had one about 10-15 miles away in Marietta not far from where the Big Chicken is (there’s a Church’s Fried Chicken there now at the old BC spot, IIRC). We always looked forward to it.


49 posted on 01/31/2024 8:05:55 PM PST by Gaffer
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I really liked Burger Chef food, btw.

50 posted on 01/31/2024 9:58:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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If the murderers can be identified, they should fry.

51 posted on 01/31/2024 10:00:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: caver

Here’s the source I used and a density map showing where they are

https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/Hardees-USA/


52 posted on 02/01/2024 10:05:43 PM PST by Zack Attack (✔)
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To: Zack Attack

We lost a number of them in Indiana. I kind of assumed that most were closed.


53 posted on 02/02/2024 3:25:56 AM PST by caver
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To: caver

Northside was pretty darn safe. I know, I grew up there in the 60’s & 70’s.


54 posted on 02/02/2024 7:13:58 PM PST by AFreeBird
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