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Today's story takes place at Speedway Indiana and involves four young employees of this fast food joint called hamburger burger chef no, I'm not on drugs or anything. I was having a conversation today about how I can't pronounce anything, how embarrassing it is, oh man, I laughed crying, well, let's get back to the story, these four young men. The employees worked at the local burger joint, it was called Burger Chef,

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simply disappeared and then sadly were found, all four murdered on November 17, 1978. Four young men were closing a Burger Chef restaurant. We freed Jane. She was 20 years old. and she was the assistant manager on duty that night we had Ruth Shelton, she was 17, Daniel Davis, he was 16, and Mark Clements, who was also 16, were scheduled to stay a couple of hours after closing, clean up and prepare the things for the morning shift the Burger Chef chain no longer exists, but at the time it was an Indianapolis-based company with about six hundred restaurants nationwide and then in the early 1980s it was absorbed by Hardee's or Carl's jr.

Around midnight one of the guys opened the back door to take out the trash, what happened next is not even completely known, it's all speculation, theories and things like that, but someone opened the back door, that's what we know for sure. security, unfortunately none of the children managed to survive. went out that night so Jane was released she was 20 years old she was described as a leader with a sense of humor and a heart of gold then we have Daniel Davis he is 16 years old he was described as a talented photographer who made his loved ones smile Mark Fleming too was 16 years old.

He was described as friendly, selfless and with a good sense of style. Ruth Shelton was 17 years old. Some articles I read said she was 18, so at 17 or 18 she was described as creative, honest, kind and loving. for the music, so I want to say that everyone involved is very young. Great, I'm sure it's probably one of her first jobs. My hair looks like this, so around midnight, another employee went to the restaurant to visit the four of us and realized that, well, no one. around where everyone is he goes and checks the back area and sees that the back door has been left slightly ajar so the four employees who were working there don't have the back doors open.

He also notices that money is missing, there was approximately $500 missing from the safe, so

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called the police, but the police did not take this case seriously. Only $500 missing, okay, back up, so they called the police and they came out and saw okay, money was missing, the police too. They found two empty money bags and also saw that two women's purses had been left behind, some of the employees' jackets were also left behind and also Jane, the manager who was on duty, her 1974 Chevrolet Vega that was left behind, but I mean that was also was missing.

The police didn't take this case seriously because only $500 was missing from the safe and also because there was no physical sign of a struggle, it just seemed like I went out the back door and I didn't, that's what the police thought. This was a small embezzlement with the assumption that the four missing employees stole the cash to party that night, so the police thought this even though the two bags were left behind, I mean, they assumed that they just partied, rather frustratingly. You never guess what happens because we looked like nothing happened the next day, the restaurant still has two, it has yet to open, right, it's a business, so whether you've worked as a retailer or not, if you work, I'm sure, maybe Maybe one of your duties is to clean, so the next morning people come to work and they clean, they clean the back area, they clean the front area, they have everything ready for another day of work and this is frustrating because Basically, they They got rid of any evidence that might have been left behind, but the next day people started to worry because no one who was scheduled to work that day disappeared, they didn't show up that same day they found Jane's car, the Chevrolet Vega.

Parked on the street near the Speedway police station, it was just a short drive from the restaurant, but it also showed no sign of her after her car was found. That's when people really started to worry a little more, so the Speedway police told the media that it was a quote from a very peculiar case in the media, that is, in the newspapers, there were no clues. and neither they nor the employees' families had received a ransom call, which I guess was strange at the time. I don't know, but for some reason that did it. It's strange then, on a Sunday afternoon on November 19, some people were in the forest, no it's not like a forested area, it was just like a small trail or hiking trail, some hikers encountered the four employees missing, their bodies, sorry.

I don't see that they found their bodies. Do you just imagine yourself having a nice time with your loved one and you come across poor children? This area was over 20 miles from Burger Chef, a 40 minute drive from the location and was right next door. as a high school student Daniel Davison Ruth Shelton were found first they were both shot execution style several times with a .38 caliber handgun Jane was found nearby she had been stabbed in the chest the handle of the knife broke so it was as if the blade itself was inside it, but the handle was gone, missing, the blade itself was never located, it was

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r recovered during the autopsy, lastly, Mark Fleming's was found 75 yards away, He suffered blunt force trauma to the head and they believe this is the result of hitting something, possibly a tree trunk.

See, what they think had happened was that Mark actually escaped like he somehow broke free or ran away from people and was running away and when he was doing a run, they think he must have hit a tree or a tree trunk. which hit his head which then made him unconscious and then he fell down the hill and then choked on his own blood which is as sick as if he were crazy. Because this poor boy runs away, he is running to be stopped by a tree trunk. It was

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r determined that he was also beaten as if it were something else, so the attackers are the killers who must have too as just to make sure he is. dead, they beat him up some more, some really shitty people, sad, no, I know I always had these while researching this story and things I was able to

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, it's very difficult, first of all, in general, to

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credible resources, you know , Internet is black. a lot of nonsense and you never know if a website is giving you accurate information or not, for starters I have been learning not the hard way, secondly, in older cases and maybe, like cases that I don't listen, it's often extremely difficult to find information about the story, so for this story I couldn't find anything about how there are families, how they found out, if the police ever went and tried to get evidence from the burger joint, like there were things They were something like that.

What's missing is that I couldn't find everything I found came from an interview with one of the police officers who was actually investigating this case, so I find him to be a credible source because he actually investigated this case. A general theory among authorities was that this was some type of robbery gone wrong. One or more of the employees could have recognized one of the killers or perhaps one of them resisted and the rest of the workers had to be eliminated. There was a rumor that at least one of the victims had been involved with drugs, possibly even selling marijuana at the restaurant, so they think maybe the dealer owed money and the supplier had to come collect, so eventually a Witness, a 16-year-old boy who was out that night, said he saw two suspicious-looking men outside the restaurant just before closing time.

Let me put these lashes on. I come right back to when I was asked to physically describe the two men. The witness said that one of them had a beard and the other had a clean head. shaved face, a lot of information to work with, so the police had several persons of interest based on those leads, so they just started asking questions. You have to start somewhere. There was a man who was tracked to a bar on the west side where this. man, he was supposedly bragging about the murders saying he had been involved, he did it, let me talk about that, yeah, the investigator on this case, actually went to the bar off duty, went undercover and met with the guy who was Bragging, he started playing pool with him and couldn't get a confession out of this guy, so he did his best.

The police ended up taking him downtown to a guy who was bragging at the bar, but the guy ended up passing a polygraph test and was just nice. having cleared him, he didn't give any evidence that he could have done it, a lot of the things weren't public yet, like the knife that didn't have a handle, how some of the others were found, so it's like they were asking nicely. Only the murderer would know about that and he simply didn't have any waste of time to boast about it so the weeks ended up turning into dry as a bone months throughout 1979 and 1980 the newspapers randomly reported on this case and then I mentioned a new prime suspect and it was usually someone who was linked to a murder in the next town over or a nearby town.

I know they were taken somewhere once. March 1981. Jane remembers that Jane, her brother ended up being arrested and he was arrested for cocaine. The police began to question him thinking that maybe he was involved. I mean, he ended up being acquitted, but for a minute they thought that maybe he knew more than he was implying. I think they just didn't have anything, so they were like you. let me ask you so at that time they didn't have anyone's confession they didn't have any suspects there was no physical evidence anything the only thing they had was the tip of the knife they didn't even find the bullet like bullet casings they didn't even find that hamburger restaurant had been cleaned so there was no nothing to go off of, they had potential suspects who were described as having a beard and not a beard, so your options or it could just be anyone, so time goes by, years go by.

People are, I mean, there are new crimes happening, so of course this one keeps getting pushed further and further down the to-do list. The main investigator of this crime stood there as if he were obsessed with this story he wanted. find who did it because I mean it was such a heinous crime and these people, whoever was involved, they're out there and they were getting desperate, they reached out to psychics, okay, they reached out to learn how to hypnotize people so they could get better information. of them not to hypnotize people and get them to confess rather get information from them, like people who actually physically saw the killers hypnotized them and hopefully they would remember a name, a badge, what they were wearing, something anyway , so 1984, 34 years.

The detective had already been on the force for 16 years, had been assigned to assist in the Burger Chef murders, and then received a tip in November: It was a phone call and it was from the Pendleton Correctional Facility that this inmate wanted to confess to. . murders, so jailhouse confessions are a staple of criminal investigations, inmates will listen to other inmates talk about what they've done and then use that as leverage to get less time or maybe get something they want to do . kinda like exchanges II many or a handful of times the slip up is horrible anyway so both investigators go to this jail and talk to a guy named Donald Wayne Forester who was 34 years old and had just been convicted.

He had been sentenced to 95 years in prison for raping a woman and was about to be transferred as a sex offender. The Indiana State Prison in Michigan City said that no one wants to go to this prison and no one wants to get out of this prison because he will probably die, especially if he has been charged with something.type of sexual crime, so he wanted to confess to the murders that way in exchange for not having to go to that jail or prison, so they did a background check on this. Guy Donal then sees that he actually grew up in the area that was quite close to where the murders occurred.

He was living in Speedway at the time and had just gotten out of prison for another rape conviction. They think he has a problem, so they sit him down, interview him on camera and this guy Donald ends up confessing to killing Davis and Shelton, so they start digging a little deeper and asking just little details that only he would know, so the detectives ended up putting this guy Donald in the back of their car and they go and drive to where the bodies were found and Donald, the killer, can show them exactly where the bodies were and this was something that technically wasn't done public, like where exactly everyone was.

At any time, it was precisely described where and in what position the bodies were found, according to these detectives. He got it right for the next two years. This inmate, Donald, the murderer, would call and would like to talk to them and give them more and more information. Donald Jane's brother, the one who was arrested for cocaine, he owed money for a drug deal and they came to the burger joint that night simply to threaten Jane, one of the other guys stepped in to defend her, then they started fighting and then they went outside. back and she liked it.

I guess it's a parking area so they go to the back and then they start fighting each other and he ends up falling and hitting his head and he hit his head on the assassins fan like on the bumper so now the assassins who They came just to threaten Jane, they said oh no, we just killed someone, so their thought process because, since they're idiots, I don't know, yeah, I mean, that's all we can really say, their thought process. Thought was good, now we have to kill everyone. because they all know what just happened, they get into Jane's car, they take them out and then they kill them again and again, technically this is not a fact, this is just what Donald, the inmate, is telling the detectives, then Donald tells the detectives that he shot. two people, but that there were three other guys involved, the reason the detective strongly believes in this guy is because again, Donald, the inmate, knew that the knife was on Jane and that the handle was broken, the murder weapon, the gun was never found, but Donald the Killer, I'm going to go ahead and tell you that he told you that he threw the gun into the White River, which was very close, and that he threw it off this bridge, so he takes his detectives to the bridge and shows them Yes, I threw it away like that, but when people went out to search the water, nothing was ever found, so the detectives went and questioned Donald's ex-wife.

Now this ex-wife is really telling the truth. She told detectives that she and Donald were driving somewhere and ended up stopping. He said he needed to check something. She didn't really ask questions. I don't know, but they stopped on a dirt road and he basically drove her to where her bodies were found. he said he needed to recover bullet casings from firing his gun there, so she was fine, whatever she sat in the car, he gets out, goes to this wooded area and collects the casings from his gun, so then they go home and then the ex wife tells the detectives that she ended up flushing them down the toilet that day so the detectives go to the old house where they no longer lived there someone else lives there they go to the house and discover that the urinal what it is I called the toilet whatever is in a septic tank so almost everyone knows that it is collected in this similar thing, but essentially it is chosen and they end up getting a court order to dig up this septic tank and they end up going through everything. this and things like that, yes, they check everything, not with their own hands, people, okay, I'm sure if you have gloves, they check it well and guess what they found, the point 38 caliber casings that they claimed to be. used by Donald as if he's not lying about that story, it's like connecting the dots, right?

You're thinking, yeah, right, like he's obviously telling the truth, so these detectives are saying this is our man, this has to be our man, him. he knows things that other people don't just know his story seemed very legit now here's where it went wrong I don't know so on November 14, 1986, some idiot of a guy who worked at the police department decided to reveal the information he had on this case. and the new suspect of him to the press, once the press released this information, this scared Donald, he was afraid of retaliation from his associates. Donald counted three days later, which means that Donald ended up retracting everything he said, he actually said no, I didn't do it. do it, I'm sorry I was lying, I lost his confession, it obviously bothered the detectives like we were almost there, why it hurt them is because they couldn't get the final evidence they needed, they had his confession on tape but it just said on the document that I was reading it and he said they couldn't get the final evidence they needed, but to me, if they had him on camera confessing, isn't that all you really need?

I don't know, but that's what he said. Okay, December 22nd is when. The police department announced that Donald would not be charged in this case and that the case is now back on hold. There is no statute of limitations in Indiana, but there is a strict limit on police resources. Donald the killer will guess why he ended up dying in prison in 2006, okay you can die for Donald, but come on, we were almost there. I think the evidence they didn't get was like the names of the other guys, the other killers, I don't know why it took him so long.

Although they had two years, I do not know one of the main investigators in this case. I'll link the article below as if it's a full interview with him and he says he's still obsessed with this case because he knew he had the type and it's really frustrating because people constantly say well no constantly but people will say it's a

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case, but really it's like they had the guy they had it and that would probably drive me crazy like if I had it, I couldn't. Imagine what you would do, so November in December 2018 marked the 40th anniversary, this anniversary that's not the right word, forty years of this sad murder.

Investigators released a photo of the sword that was recovered from Jane in hopes that it would help bring clues. Go ahead and that's the sad and horrible story about the Burger Chef murders, people need to shut their dirty little mouths and not brag to the press because this can happen when the going gets tough and that must be extremely frustrating, but he mentioned that there was three others involved and I wonder why no one has spoken out about it. It feels so bad because, as you know, it was probably one of his first jobs. They are simply working.

The whole thing is very sad. Let me know what you think of this. story below, but other than that, I hope you have a very good day today, make good decisions and stay safe and I'll see you later, bye.