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devil on horseback, way out of sight.

Good evening, everyone.

Tonight is the last of our series of...

Having extra spending money

for those special occasions can sometimes be a real problem.

But I solved it with a part-time job at Burger Chef.

At Burger Chef, they gave me a work schedule

to fit the hours that I could work

and they may be able to do it for you too.

And it's fun to work at Burger Chef!

Hey.

Big Shef up!

Welcome to Burger Chef. What can I get you?

Yeah, everybody behind the counter,

everything seemed normal.

Just up there laughing and joking with them and...

I mean, just like a typical Friday night at Burger Chef.

It was, like, 11:30 or 12:00 and I knew they'd be closing up.

I get over there to the Burger Chef and...

..I don't see nobody.

Hey, Mama.

Speedway Police thought this was just four kids

who just, like, bailed

and didn't wanna clean up after the night.

So, of course, what'd they do?

They washed down the restaurant

and opened it up for breakfast the next morning.

The Speedway Police, they fumbled and bumbled that case

all the way to hell, man.

If I had the ability of hindsight...

And would I make different decisions?

Absolutely.

I can't do anything about what was done 40 years ago.

Alright, bye-bye. I love you.

Love you.

I can stay.

The fact that no-one has been held responsible

burns a hole right through me.

Usually when I start having nightmares,

it's...it's getting colder

and it's just my heart just sinks.

And...and I remember that she's gone.

On November 17, 1978,

four employees of the Burger Chef restaurant

in Speedway, Indiana were abducted.

Two days later, on Sunday afternoon,

a person found their bodies in rural Johnson County, Indiana,

where they had been murdered.

Ruth and Danny were both shot

face down, execution style.

Jayne was stabbed twice in the chest.

And then Mark was beaten.

The bodies of Jayne C. Friedt,

Mark Flemmonds,

Daniel R. Davis

and Ruth E. Shelton

have been discovered late this afternoon in Johnson County.

REPORTER:The crime still remains unsolved...

REPORTER:..just hours after closing time,

four employees ages 16 to 20...

They were found murdered

a few days later in Johnson County.

No-one has been charged with the crime.

One of the most infamous crimes

in state history.

Somewhere, somebody knows what happened.

Speedway's an interesting town

because forever, it's been the home of

the greatest spectacle in motor racing

since, you know, 1912.

And that was always the claim to fame.

The town of Speedway, named after

the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway.

In the late 1970s, all of a sudden

it was getting rocked by all this crime

and all this attention that was coming to

this sleepy little suburb.

This was four young people who disappeared out of thin air

and then to be found so brutally slain

36 hours later

just brought up all kinds of terror

not only in the community as a whole

but for every parent and every teenage kid out there

who was making a few dollars

working at a fast-food restaurant after school

that this could happen to them.

It is still seared into the minds of the people

that the bogeyman's going to come get you.

Well, in this case, the bogeyman came

and took four children away -

and 40 years later, we still don't have that solution.

It put a lot of fear in everybody -

the whole community,

myself and my family.

I am paranoid in my old age.

Of course, my paranoia started

at a young age

with the Burger Chef murders.

So I'm not a crazy old woman with guns.

I have my guns for self-protection.

Ruger .22, long barrel.

They are all loaded.

This is where I sit most of the time,

so I definitely wanna have something in reach here.

And this is my 9mm.

This is my curly-hair tarantula.

His name is Chewy.

Get him!

It was a...

..pretty terrifying experience.

My name's Todd McComas.

I'm a retired detective with the Indiana State Police.

I became a detective in 1998

and I was assigned to the Indianapolis District,

which is where this crime happened.

This case is probably one of the saddest things

I've ever seen in my career.

You know, I'm a dad.

And you can just imagine

what their parents and their family went through

when they found out that news.

I think Ruth wanted to be 18

just because that 18 meant you were an adult.

She was 30 days away from being 18

when she was taken.

Ruth was five years older than me.

I looked up to her.

I thought she was the perfect picture of a teenager.

And that's the last memory I have of her.

It was only maybe four or five black kids in the whole school,

so we kind of stuck together.

We rode to school together,

we walked home from school together,

we hung out together.

So it was pretty devastating to me.

It was just rough, man.

Wait. Hold on, y'all, hold on.

Shh, shh, shh.

You hear that?

That's the Galaxy calling out to me.

"Mark, Mark."

What's the Galaxy?

It's the under-21 club across the street

where all of Mark's imaginary girlfriends are.

OK, Jayne.

Honestly, nothing good happens there, Danny.

You're not missing anything on anything.

-Have you been? -I've heard all about it.

Don't knock it till you try it.

SONG:♪ I'll be lovin' you, girl... ♪

Mark and I had planned to go to the Galaxy that night

to play some games, listen to some music.

You know, have some fun and come on back home.

Once Mark get off work,

I'mma meet him and we gonna walk back home because...

..black kids don't walk by themself

in Speedway at night, you know?

I'm just walking across the parking lot. It's dark.

I don't see nobody.

So I do what I normally do -

I knock on the door, because they would let me in.

No answer.

Like, "Damn, I just saw y'all over here!"

As I go towards the back of the building,

I see the back door laying wide open.

So I stop.

I say, "They might be trying to scare me,

"hiding behind the door."

So I'm hollering in the building.

"Mark, Mark, Mark! Jayne!"

Nothing.

Quiet as a mouse in there.

I'm like, "Shit, I'm not going in there."

So I just turn around and walk home.

The cops get here about half an hour after

someone comes and notices we're gone.

The safe is open.

$500 in notes are missing but not the coins.

Our jackets are gone from the coat rack

but my purse and Ruth's purse are still here.

The cash drawers are on the floor and the back door is open.

A crime scene, right?

Not so fast.

The Speedway Police Department

immediately dismissed this as

"Ah, they're just being teenagers.

"They probably went out to that under-21 club,

"having a good time.

"They'll be back. Why don't you go and shut the doors, lock up?

"And you can open for business tomorrow."

A couple days later,

after they find our bodies in the woods,

the police come back and re-stage the crime scene.

They take photos and say they were taken

on the night we disappeared.

I don't know if I'd characterise it as re-staging.

I know that there was an attempt to pass off photographs

as if they were actual crime-scene photos.

I worked the Burger Chef case for the...

..better part of 21 years -

continuously from 1981 through '86

and then I still had my hand in it

from '86 through '99 when I retired from the department.

It became common knowledge amongst all the investigators

that the crime scene at the restaurant,

the Burger Chef, wasn't... wasn't handled properly.

Four people missing.

An apparent robbery.

There should have been pictures, fingerprints.

People should have been interviewed -

witnesses and so forth -

and I don't believe much was done.

The part of this case that

I'm probably the most familiar with

is the crime-scene photos.

When you look at Ruth,

the first shot

entered the side of her neck from the back

and exited the front.

You see that in Danny as well.

The first shots went through his trapezoid from the back

and then exited the front.

Then the killer approaches Ruth,

puts the gun to the back of her head

and ends it.

And Danny literally is touching shoulders,

he's that close to Ruth.

Turns toward Danny sideways and puts two shots,

one in the side of his neck and one into his jaw.

And those ended his life.

When the shots rang out,

Jayne and Mark bolt.

Someone grabbed Jayne from behind,

reached over and stabbed her

twice in the chest.

And on that second blow,

probably as they went to the ground,

it broke off.

They never found the handle,

but the blade was left in her chest.

So Mark was found at the base of a tree

on his back,

and his hands were like this above his head.

And he was positioned

on a decline.

Now, the injuries that he received

were all through this area of his face

and it looked to me

as if it was almost one single blow.

He dropped right where he stood.

He choked on his own blood.

Asphyxiated.

He died from a broken nose.

I think...

..Mark hit that tree.

These aren't just victims.

That was my sister.

These are real people

with real families,

with real friends,

that deserve justice.

Well, I'm chasing answers.

I'm chasing answers for Theresa

and for the family members.

They deserve closure.

All these theories are out there

and at one time had validity.

But the reason they all exist

is there was a lot of crazy shit

going on in Indianapolis in 1978.

And when you look at them individually,

they fell in comparison to this most famous unsolved case.

So whenever something bad happened to anybody

or anyone threw away a gun in somebody's yard

or anyone came home with blood on 'em around that time,

people wanted to connect that to the Burger Chef murders.

Hey, Mama?

I was just wondering if I could stay back to help close.

But they need my help here.

Please.

I know, I know. Um...

Alright. 'Bye, Mama. I love you.

I can stay.

Right on!

I think the answer is right in our face

and that's what burns me up the most.

There was a crew of five guys interchangeably

that were robbing all the Burger Chefs

up to three weeks before this one happened.

I am 99.9% convinced

that the original investigators

had the right theory.

The robbery crew.

That that crew are responsible.

One of the more prominent theories -

even though robbery was pretty prominent

in Indianapolis at the time,

is a specific group from Johnson County.

It was a group of 4-5 guys - they kinda

rotated out which ones were involved at any given time -

that would rob Burger Chefs and Kentucky Fried Chickens.

Had a MO similar to kind of what is theorised happened

at the Speedway Burger Chef that night.

I got off work at the Dunkin' Donuts early that night,

somewhere around 11:00,

and I had a little time

before my dad was gonna come pick me up.

So I called George to come up there.

We dated...a year and a half?

-Yeah. -Close to two years.

Right.

Had a lot of wild and crazy times.

We were gonna smoke a joint and drink a little bit.

We needed matches to light the joint.

I looked over at the back of the place.

The back door was cracked a little bit.

And I went to the door and it was open.

Well, I went in.

Just one person that came up

and they gave me the pack of matches.

George Nichols was the last person to see any of them

before they were taken.

The robbery crew would

park their car some distance away,

then they would approach the restaurant

or the target location on foot.

You know, we lit up

and that's when them two guys came down.

I thought they smelled it.

That's why I...

That's kinda what freaked me out about them.

I remember hearing somebody clear their throat

and when I looked up, one of 'em spoke and said,

"You kids need to get out of here

"because there's been a lot of vandalism going on."

I thought we were gonna go to jail, actually, at that point.

I went back inside to wait for my dad.

-And you walked home. -Yeah.

The one that did not speak

was tall.

I'd say 6' to 6'2".

Clean-shaven.

The other man was shorter, maybe 5'8"-ish.

He had a beard.

Scruffy-looking.

The sketches became known as

the Clean-Shaven Man and the Bearded Man.

And they took it a step further

and did the clay busts.

Tomorrow, police are expected to release

two three-dimensional busts of the men in the composites

hoping this will give a better indication

of what they look like.

Since the two haven't come forward,

police are more convinced thanever that these are the killers.

Based on this young man and young woman's description,

a couple of these members of the robbery crew.

S.W. Wilkins looks very much like the Bearded Man's composite

and Gregg Steinke looked very much like

the Clean-Shaven Man's composite.

Almost eerily so.

S.W. Wilkins

did case that particular Burger Chef

three different times

prior to it getting robbed.

He was a bad guy.

I mean, he committed a butt-ton of robberies, armed robberies,

where he put people in fear for a very long time.

These guys robbed all kinds of other places,

including Burger Chefs,

but no-one ever got murdered.

So why did these four kids

get taken 25, 30 minutes away

out into rural Johnson County

and executed in the woods?

S.W. Wilkins

worked at a railway in Avon, Indiana.

Jayne Friedt did at one time work at that Burger Chef

in Avon, Indiana.

It's quite likely he went there.

Maybe she recognised him

and that made things turn for the worse.

The problem here is that the entire case against these guys

is circumstantial.

I don't even know that guy.

The police say the only reason he even recognised you

is because he worked close to where you worked

and probably, maybe, might have

got a sandwich from there from time to time.

So these guys arrive on foot.

One of them recognises me, then what? They have to kill us all?

And then what?

They have to get us 30 miles away to Johnson County.

If you're an experienced criminal

and you're gonna have to

take some kids against their will,

you're probably gonna go to an area you're familiar with.

Just so happens

S.W. Wilkins and Gregg Steinke lived

literally just within minutes

of where those murders happened.

They lived in Johnson County, Indiana.

I'll tell you this - you don't find that spot by accident.

Get the Fun Village.

This is one of the biggest mysteries in this case.

They take my car from the restaurant here...

..presumably to where they left their car

right by the Speedway Police Station.

That's a 25-minute walk.

And either they take one person

in my car to a waiting van and bring that van back...

..or, like some people say, we all get in my car.

So two, maybe three fully-grown men and four kids?

You got a clown car?

It was very common for the robbery crew

to steal an employee's car

to drive back to where their getaway car was.

And then they would leave the employee car there

and drive off in their car.

The mystery of it is how does her car end up over by the park

which is just across the street

from the Speedway Police Department?

If you're gonna dump a car, why are you gonna dump it

across the street from the Police Department?

The key was in my pocket when they found me.

The driver's side was locked. I always locked my doors.

Passenger side was open, though.

We do know that her keys were found in her pocket

at the crime scene

when she was found dead with the others.

So at some point,

those keys were returned to her.

Look, the cops' whole case on this is

there were guys robbing restaurants in the area,

so they must have done it.

So where's the evidence?

It's just frustrating that we didn't have all that.

As far as a case, you can have all the leads,

but if you don't have the evidence to prove it,

you're...you're just stuck.

Yep.

Here we go.

Hey, Mama.

I've gotta stay back. We're short.

Someone didn't come in.

I know. OK, Mama.

OK, thanks.

I can stay.

Right on!

I think we had the right person

and I was convinced enough

that I felt that we had enough to proceed with prosecution

and get a conviction

on Don Forrester.

You just take it easy now!

You see this?

That says 'Assistant Manager'.

That means I'm your boss.

Well, you're very good at your job, Jayne.

Um, excuse me, Jayne.

Just to let you know, I have to be gone by 11:30.

I know, buddy.

We'll have you home in no time.

I came into the Burger Chef investigation...

..um, in the mid-'80s.

Originally we got the information from a jail snitch

that wanted to talk to us

about Don Forrester.

Forrester was known to be a bad guy.

We got a call from him here,

that he wanted to talk to us, and then...

..said he had some things to say

about the Burger Chef.

He told us details

about the murder scene

and who was shot and how many times

and who was laying next to each other.

Told us all that.

Can you get that in?

Yeah.

This is the badge that Jayne left at my house

the day she went to work on the day that she was murdered.

We'd get either lovey-dovey

or talk about the day and...

"What are we gonna do this weekend?" type thing.

But she remarked that day,

"No, I just wanna sit on the couch and be close and hug."

And I said, "OK, but, you know, is something going on?"

"No, not really."

I let it go.

I didn't pursue it

'cause time was short and we had to go to work.

And then I spoke with her later on that night

and things had turned around.

She was upbeat.

Maybe she was getting off work in a couple hours or something.

I don't know.

But now, as I look back,

I wonder if something wasn't going down

that she was worried about

but she just wanted to be secure in some way

about just being close and holding each other.

Maybe she was afraid of something.

I called her

later on that evening

and she said, "It's dead,"

which...those words haunt me to this day.

Some of the contacts

or people that Forrester had brought up to us was...

..Jayne Friedt's brother.

Jimmy...

I think he was in trouble a lot

throughout his life.

Don Forrester was aware of him and knew him.

He was an enforcer for that drug gang,

or whatever you want to call it.

Hello?

-Sorry. What can I get you? -That's alright.

Hey, could I get a Big Shef?

Of course. That'll be...

-Please. -Sweet. Thank you.

Blue? That's new.

I heard orange.

Well, we've heard a lot of things.

I heard orange.

So yellow with a primer red according to one witness.

Chevy?

It was a Ford.

Snub-nosed Econoline.

One guy even said it was a board van.

Get inside!

No!

I was scheduled to work the 17th.

Mark did like me a lot.

There was another boy working there,

his name was Brian,

and he had asked me out on a date.

So I called Mark and I said, "Hey, Mark,

"you know, Brian wants to take me out on Friday night.

"Would you work in my place?"

And Mark said, "Sure."

Around 4:30, Mark called me

and he told me that something had come up

and he couldn't work for me.

I said, you know what?

Mark said that he was gonna work for me,

so he's gonna work for me.

Now, I did try to back out of Ginger's shift

at the last minute

and people assumed it was 'cause

I knew the Burger Chef was gonna get hit

and that my brother was involved.

I just wanted to go to the Galaxy.

REPORTER:Flemmonds's 16-year-old son Mark

was the victim now believed to have forced the kidnapping

by immediately fighting to protect another of the victims,

Jayne Friedt.

I heard it out of her own mouth.

She said...

I didn't pay too much attention. "Mark's my protection."

Jayne Friedt said Mark was her protector?

I heard her say it at the Burger Chef

when I went there to get some hamburgers one time.

What did she need protection from?

Now, that's the point.

I never even dreamed, you know?

You don't think about anything like that.

No, I didn't even think about it at the time.

Friedt was the restaurant's assistant manager

and detectives believe she may have had

information about a drug debt

the assailants had gone to the restaurant to collect.

Later that evening,

we drove by the Burger Chef

and realised things weren't quite right.

It was probably around midnight.

And we were driving by.

We see all the lights were on

but Jayne's car was gone.

Brian says, "Let's stop in and see what's going on."

And I said, "I can't.

"I gotta be home by midnight or my dad will freak out."

So he dropped me off,

and then Brian's the one that came back to Burger Chef

and realised that the back door was open

and went in and saw things weren't...right.

So then Brian called the manager.

So then the manager called the police.

It was unusual that Jayne... the manager's car being gone

and the lights being on in the restaurant.

We're gonna get through this, buddy, OK?

God is watching over us

and he won't let anything bad happen to us.

I spoke to my mom just before.

I asked her if I could

stay back and help close.

So if something bad happens to me, Ruth...

It's OK. It's OK.

..they'll think it's their fault.

It'll be OK, Danny, you'll be back with your mama

again in no time, OK?

This'll all just be like a bad dream.

We verified through his ex-wife

that he actually did take her

to the homicide scene

and collect shell casings

that was in a stream at the entrance to this road

that goes up to where the children were murdered.

He did take those shell casings to their house

and flushed them down the toilet.

What he wasn't aware of, though, that it was on a septic

and they were still in...in that septic tank

when we recovered them.

Forrester's gun was a .22.

The killer used a .38.

He said he shoved us in the storeroom

and at least one of us was tied up with some kind of wire,

but there were no ligature marks on any of us.

What the heck is he doing,

going back to the scene of the crime days later,

with his wife, to collect shell casings?

They found them in his poop tank.

Gross!

Look, Pendleton Prison was tough as hell

and when he started talking to Willsey,

they moved him up to Michigan City

and I think he liked it there.

So he confessed to a quadruple murder

that could get him in the electric chair?

Listen.

The prosecutor had access to the confession

but still decided not to prosecute.

They forced me to change

what was the truth

and give them a lie.

If I had did that, you know,

I would never have talked to them in the first place.

We had a meeting with the prosecutor of Marion County

here in the Sheriff's Department.

We were confused why they...they didn't proceed.

And like I said, their excuse was...

..or their reasoning was

that he was already doing 99 years.

And mine was...

..I think the families

need to know

so they have some sort of closure.

And...

..it never happened.

There's a reason Forrester was never convicted.

There are too many inconsistencies to his story.

He confessed twice and then took them back both times.

Right. And one of the guys he named in his crew

was in jail the night this all went down.

I heard that when he was interviewed

by Marion County cops,

they put him in the war room

where all of the crime scene photos

and evidence were on the wall.

He could see it all.

It was poorly done.

I'll just give you an example.

"You witnessed this stabbing take place?" "Yes."

"How many times was the person stabbed?" "Once."

"Well, who stabbed her the second time?"

You know, it's pretty leading.

And by that time, I thought he'd been fed

a big part of this case anyway.

I'd sit right here today and tell you

Donald Forrester could have killed those kids.

He was that kind of person.

He was a coward. He was a liar.

I'm not saying he didn't do it.

I'm saying he never said anything credible.

Hey, Mama.

I've gotta stay back to help close. Is that OK?

Alright.

I love you. Bye-bye.

I can stay.

Right on!

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In order to understand

why the Burger Chef murders so shook the town of Speedway,

it's necessary to understand

what was going on here at the time.

REPORTER:A six-day bombing spree

rocked the town of Speedway in early September of 1978.

It left two people seriously injured.

When we had the Speedway Bombing

across the street from the Burger Chef,

Ruth worked that night.

We had bunk beds.

And she came home

and that bed shook all night long.

She was so nervous.

The apartments complex that we lived in at that time

was called Big Eagle.

Once we got to know Mark

and we realised that we lived in the same apartments...

We're sitting at home one night

and, you know, we're watching the TV.

And I'm like, "I wonder, is a bomb gonna go off tonight?"

10 minutes later, sure as shit.

Boom!

Damn police Speedway cop car blew up.

On September 6, a gym bag

blew up in the parking lot of Speedway High School.

Several people were hurt, including Carl DeLong,

who had to have his leg amputated.

There was a football game that night.

We just walked from the parking lot to the gate

and I heard a loud boom and I saw the flash.

And thought, "Oh, my God, what just happened?"

Then I heard the people screaming

and people running around.

It happened right in here, in this general area.

There was a car parked,

and when that car backed out and left,

it exposed a gym bag.

And a gentleman, Carl DeLong, kicked it.

A guy I went to high school with, DeLong,

his dad kicked the bag and blew his damn leg off.

REPORTER:The victim has lost a leg

and later, plagued by constant pain,

committed suicide.

His wife, she got burnt real bad.

But I can remember just listening to people screaming

and just...just chaos.

This guy was going around Speedway

just bombing the hell out of places, man.

Jayne,

that night, when I spoke with her,

we talked about the bombings.

But she said, "Yeah, one of my employees said

"that she thought that she saw

"Brett Kimberlin go through the drive-thru."

Brett Kimberlin has always been in the background,

in the periphery of the Burger Chef case.

His crimes were so off the wall and didn't make any sense

just like Burger Chef didn't make any sense.

You go from Brett Kimberlin to Burger Chef -

there were a lot of things happening on that side of town.

Brett Kimberlin...

Brett Kimberlin is who I think is behind all...

If it's drug related, it's Brett Kimberlin.

REPORTER:Authorities speculate the bombings were

to distract them from investigating a murder.

The victim, a Speedway grandmother

who reportedly had threatened

to blow the whistle on Kimberlin's drug dealing.

In late July of 1978,

a man came to see a woman named Julia Scyphers

about an item at her garage sale.

The elderly woman was shot in the head and killed.

Julia Scyphers was the mother

of a girl that was dating Brett Kimberlin

and she didn't like the relationship

and she was wanting her daughter

to break up with Brett Kimberlin.

And Brett Kimberlin didn't like that.

And...

I don't know this for sure, but I think that Brett Kimberlin

had Bill Bowman kill Julia Scyphers.

Her husband witnessed it...

..but he died before anything could be taken to trial.

I think he's evil.

Yeah. He has no conscience.

Um...

But I think even monsters still feel,

and I don't think he even has any feelings.

If there's anybody to be scared of, it's Brett Kimberlin.

Even today.

Hi, guys.

That's alright. I got him.

Didn't expect that one.

Oh, look, there's Ozzie.

Ozzie the pig.

So we have 13 animals.

We have three dogs, four cats, a guinea pig.

We have a chinchilla,

two hamsters,

a Russian tortoise.

We had two pigeons. They both died. It was heartbreaking.

We now have them on the mantle in there.

Uh, we had them cremated.

And we also had another cat named Rascal

and the damn mail truck ran over him a few months ago.

Broke my kid's heart.

Um...

So I think that's the extent of our, um...

..our menagerie here.

REPORTER:Yesterday, as Brett Kimberlin headed

back to the Marion County Jail, surrounded by newspeople,

he claimed innocence of the Speedway Bombings

and promised an appeal.

I was in prison for 14 or 15 years

over the bombing case.

I had absolutely nothing to do with the Speedway Bombings.

I did not commit them. I did not build them.

I did not manufacture them. I did not detonate them.

I had absolutely nothing to do with

the death of Julia Scyphers.

I had nothing to do with the Burger Chef murders at all.

I did not know those people.

I'd never been to that Burger Chef at all.

That's...that's just flat-out fact.

It was police putting this garbage,

lies, false narrative,

'fake news' as they call it nowadays,

into...into the media.

And they had my pictures

with stories involving

the Burger Chef murders

and somehow saying that I was involved.

It was like 'Twilight Zone'.

I mean, really, this was 'The Twilight Zone'.

Brett Kimberlin was kind of a bogeyman in Speedway.

Bunch of folks think it was him who killed us.

He's a dead ringer for the sketch of the Clean-Shaven Man.

But there are some problems with this theory.

It was the '70s and a lot of people were smoking pot.

And there was a large market, so I started selling pot.

I didn't have any issues with...

..really with customers or with...

..police or anything

until this whole thing...

..you know, crashed down on me.

But I supposedly became a suspect in the bombings

and got arrested.

I never got out after that.

And gave me 50 years.

He was shipping tonnes of marijuana

across international borders.

So why the heck would he deal dime bags to kids?

The fact that they never solved the Burger Chef murders...

I'm just floored

that four beautiful kids could be killed

and no-one would be held responsible.

You know, he wasn't even in the gosh-darn papers at this point.

So, how did I recognise him?

And besides, what was his motive?

I try to force myself

not to think about how she died.

But a lot of times, you know,

I just can't seem to get it out of my head that,

you know, she was... laying there,

told to...to lay face down, and she did.

And what was going through her head?

What was she thinking?

Had they said, "You just lay down here,

"there's a house over there

"that you can run to, but you've gotta count to a hundred"?

Or what?

Did she believe that she was going to be allowed

to go somewhere, but they wanted to get away first?

And I just...

That's basically my... my nightmares.

I don't ever...

You know,

I don't ever hear the gunshot.

Hey, Mama, uh, can I stay and help close?

OK. I love you, Mama.

Uh, I can stay.

Right on.

The only person who ever came forward and said,

"I was at the Burger Chef and I saw this,"

was Allen Pruitt.

And we can prove beyond any doubt whatsoever he was there.

In late '80, or early '81,

we were called to the Marion County Jail.

And a counsellor said, "Hey,

"there's been an altercation between Allen Pruitt

"and the brother of one of the victims from the Burger Chef,

"James Friedt, and we think you guys

"probably need to talk to this Allen Pruitt."

And that's how we first became aware of him.

He told us a kind of a rambling story

about being at the Dunkin' Donuts

next door to the Burger Chef that night.

Well, I was in a cell block

and one day I heard them announce over the intercom,

"James Friedt," you know, "Come to the door."

And I thought, "James Friedt," you know, I thought,

"I wonder if that's Jayne's brother," you know?

I kind of recognised him with that black curly hair

and, you know, beard.

I said, "Are you Jayne Friedt's brother?"

"Yeah, I am. What about it?"

I said, "Word is, I heard you got your sister

"and them three other kids killed up at the Burger Chef."

"Oh, what the fuck you talking about, man?"

He goes, "Who the hell did you hear that from?"

You know, what if it is true?

What if he did get his sister and them kids killed?

Because I heard back in school days he was a coke dealer.

You know, maybe he got his sister involved

and some shit went wrong.

Now, what he says he saw,

that's hard... that's difficult to prove.

Is he telling the truth?

Gosh, I don't...I don't know.

David Adams stopped by,

visited at my mom and dad's house.

He said, "What do you want to do tonight?"

I said, "Hell, man, I don't know."

"Well, let's go get some damn beer."

David was driving in his Pinto

and I said, "David, I need to get something to eat."

So we go to Dunkin' Donuts.

His ex-girlfriend Mary Rein worked there.

Burger Chef looked like it was already closed,

because they had the big hamburger man out in front

that they normally lit up all the time at night,

it was off.

Now, there were lights on in the restaurant,

but I think a lot of places they leave lights on like that.

I saw that goddamn van that night.

And I will never forget that fucking van

because of the white wheels.

'Cause I'm thinking, you know, I'm thinking,

"Man, you know, that looks fucking stupid."

I mean, it just... It always stood out in my head. Always.

They were bright white.

I remember them wheels like it was yesterday,

and I remember some kind of a weird window

on the side of that van.

You know, it was a long distance, and it was dark,

and just the way the parking light was shining

it looked like Jeff Reed.

Jeff Reed, the driver of the van.

He looked like a pro football player, just buff, big arms,

big chest, big neck, you know, and I,

"You know, he might be a helpful buddy to have around

"just for, you know, protection."

You know, if somebody tries to whoop on you.

Well, I saw this guy with the door open

on the passenger door,

and I looked and I thought,

"Damn, I know who that is."

Tim Willoughby.

That was him I saw

on the passenger side of that van that night.

Tim Willoughby, I mean, he just...

He was strange-acting.

I mean, if you just looked at the guy,

you got really funny vibes.

This is the testimony of Allen Pruitt.

It says here that Pruitt was at the Dunkin' Donuts

with his buddy, David Adams.

He's drunk and he feels sick.

So he goes outside for some air

and says he "heard some racket next door at Burger Chef there.

"And I walked around to the side of Dunkin' Donuts

"to see what was going on

"and seen the orange van sitting there."

So this is the guy?

If he wasn't leaning against the wall of the Dunkin' Donuts,

he'd fall over.

So, it says here that he named two guys -

Jeff Reed and Tim Willoughby.

So let me get this straight.

Pruitt just happens to know the two guys who did this

and just happens to be there when it all goes down?

What's it say?

"Jeff Reed grabbed the black boy by the back

"and threw him toward the van..."

"..and went down and hit his head

"on the back corner of the van,

"and I guess it either killed him or knocked him out.

"Jeff picked him up,

"put him in the back of the van."

"Tim, Jayne and the other girl..."

That would be me.

"..walked to the east side of the building.

"I seen a white Vega pull out with him driving.

"I seen him as they pulled out of the parking lot."

My car.

That's my car! I...

Look, the cops said

Pruitt was the only one who saw what happened.

Right, but his story's changed

so many times over the years.

One time he said it might have even been

your brother Jimmy he saw, not Jeff Reed.

Right, and what about the time he said there was another car

and two black guys?

So why would Pruitt lie?

Depends who you ask.

I heard he was a lookout.

He was in and out of jail too.

He passed a dang polygraph.

OK, so this is where shit gets crazy.

Allen Pruitt told us, about four in the afternoon

he was at this Dairy Queen in Avon,

which was the local hangout.

The van he had seen

at the Burger Chef the night before pulled in,

and that Tim Willoughby and Jeff Reed were in the van.

He said he got in, and in the back of the van

was Tim Willoughby's girlfriend, Mary Ann Higginbotham,

and that she was dishevelled, she appeared to be high.

And he says that Mary Ann

kept rambling on about them killing these kids,

and that they tried to get her to shoot one of them,

so she'd be as guilty as they were.

They ultimately got out of the van

and that Mary Ann told him,

"Run, they're gonna shoot you too."

And he did. He fled.

He said there was a gunshot.

It gets weirder.

Tim and Mary Ann couldn't have been in the van.

They were meant to be dead.

Tim Willoughby was supposedly dead at the time.

Common thought, because his girlfriend,

Mary Ann Higginbotham,

had been found in Morgan County, Indiana,

sealed in a barrel earlier that year.

The common belief was that Tim was dead.

His body's never been found.

And to date he's not reappeared.

They thought that he had died in June of '78,

right before the Burger Chef murders.

That's crazy, man.

So, according to this,

they were there to collect money from me.

What?

Her brother would come up to visit

and they would leave the restaurant and go get high.

Burger Chef was supposed to be a drug drop in the bathrooms.

I was on break

and I went up and I bought a hamburger for my lunch

and I left my wallet on the counter.

Went back up, it was gone.

Six months later, I'm cleaning the bathroom

and I look up and I see the ceiling tile is not straight.

So I climb up on the toilet to straighten it up

and my wallet falls out.

Oh.

Could that be the drug drop?

I don't know the extent of what was going on.

I just know that she would leave with him frequently,

be gone for 20, 25 minutes,

and come back with a whole new attitude.

It's ridiculous.

So I was some sort of drug kingpin?

Come on!

Well, what about Jimmy?

My brother was into some bad shit with some bad people,

but I can't believe he would let me die

because of a drug debt.

Jayne had a brother, Jimmy.

It was common knowledge where he would...

..he would sell drugs.

Pot or maybe cocaine.

I hate to say black sheep, but he was.

Would she have done something for him?

Could she have got hooked up with...with Jimmy

and done a favour for him and sell bags of pot

or something through the drive-up?

Probably. Because she did love him.

My theory is that it was a drug deal...

..with Jayne's brother.

There was another side of Jayne.

She didn't treat all the employees

very kindly all the time.

She could get pretty angry.

Pretty, um...

I don't know what words to say, and I really feel bad

about talking bad about somebody that has passed,

but she could get in your face and I've...

She pointed her finger in my face a few times.

At one point, she left the restaurant

during working hours.

It was night, we were closed, we were cleaning up,

and she was going to walk out of the restaurant

for a little while.

And she got in my face and pointed her finger.

"Don't you tell a soul that I'm leaving, and if you do,

"I will make your life a living hell when I get back."

What about your brother?

He does time for armed robbery a few years from now.

And the apartment building where you live

is basically a halfway house for every crook in Speedway.

Jayne, stop.

OK, the black guys did it. Nice.

When they dusted my car for prints,

the only one they found besides mine

belonged to a buddy of your brother,

so get off your high horse.

Guys!

I'm sorry if this offends you,

but we keep hearing this shit about you.

Is it true?

-Did you owe people money? -Hey!

This is not helping.

Danny's right, guys.

We want to believe you, Jayne, but we keep hearing shit.

We can't look at this whole thing

without looking at you too.

But people talk about me like I was living two goddamn lives.

I was just trying to work stuff out like everyone else.

I just wanna go home. Just like all of you.

I'm not just some footnote in a murder mystery.

Some curio for people to speculate about.

"Oh, I knew that girl who died at the Burger Chef,"

or, "I took AP Bio with that dead girl."

I'm me!

I feel like that, a lot of times,

we hear all about the bad people's names

and their lives and what they were into.

And then we call everyone else the victim.

Um...

That's not... That's not right.

They weren't victims.

They were my sister, Ruth,

her manager, Jayne,

Mark and Danny.

Nobody had 'victim' across their name tag.

Why are we notarising

the people who may have been responsible

and forgetting that the people that they killed

were real people?

You know, I used to wear ankle weights

under my pants every day

so I could jump higher on the basketball court.

I remember I'd take them off at the end of the day

and I felt so light it's like I could fly.

Dang, I wish I felt like that right now.

Did it work?

Yeah, but I got cut from the team

'cause I wouldn't cut my hair.

Believe that?

There's another witness.

Jean Bland.

We were driving down Crawfordsville Road.

We slowed down

and tried to kind of see what was going on.

And that's when I noticed a single-file line of kids

walking to a van from the side door.

I see a man in the lead,

and then there was someone holding the door open

for them to walk out of.

And I told my husband and my sister-in-law,

"There's something strange about that."

The next morning we saw the news,

and he immediately called the Speedway Police Department.

Spoke to him one time.

From that point on, we never heard anything else.

Every time they had an anniversary,

my husband would call in again and he'd be like,

"We seen this.

"We could tell you the colour of the van,

"the description of the person."

He's like, "Why hasn't anybody talked to me?

"We have pertinent information

"that could have helped you locate these people."

She and her husband tried for years to talk to them,

but the police didn't care.

So it couldn't have been long

that they must have got them in the van,

he ran out and got in the van, because they caught up with us.

I seen the side view, his profile,

his hair colour.

It looked like he had dark sideburns,

which could have been a beard,

'cause I didn't see the front of his face.

But they turned right on Lynhurst,

disappeared into the night, and we went on home.

Was Tim Willoughby alive November 17, 1978?

I don't know.

I know that Allen Pruitt says that's who he saw there.

If he's lying about this,

he needs to have the courage to come up and say,

"I heard some yelling over there,

"but I have no idea what was going on."

Maybe I was talking shit,

you know, because, you know, I was just pissing them off,

because all they kept doing was harassing the hell out of me.

And, my God, did that

just make my blood pressure roll right there.

I mean, the hell they had put me and David Adams through,

almost a year worth of harassment,

polygraph tests.

Because I did not like cops, OK?

They all acted like,

"Oh, we know you guys did it and we're gonna prove it."

We couldn't afford lawyers, you know?

We were poor kids.

And, you know,

we were really getting to the point

where we was getting scared

if we said, you know, the wrong damn word,

you know, they're gonna use it against us.

I will never, to the day they put me in a grave,

I will never forget that frickin' van.

Never.

If there's anything I can do to help with this case,

I'm here for that reason.

We know he was there.

He's the only person that ever said,

"I was there," that we can prove was at the restaurant.

If he's got some involvement beyond that,

I hope that, before he dies, he has enough courage to confess.

Somebody has carried this... this secret for 40 years,

and...and it's time.

It's time to...to unload that...that secret, that burden,

and give us that...

..give us that piece of information that we need

to be able to, uh, to hold somebody accountable for this.

Hey, Mama, I'm just calling you to tell you

that I have to stay tonight.

Alright.

OK.

I love you.

He had called

'cause he wasn't supposed to work till only 10 o'clock.

That's the state law, 'cause he's 16.

And he called us and said

could he work another hour or so to help her close up.

And we conferred, said, "Well, yeah, go ahead."

'Cause he said, "I want the money for Christmas.

"Christmas presents."

So you kind of blame yourself for that.

You know, why...why did you tell him...

Why didn't you tell him, "Come on home," but I didn't.

And we both agreed,

you know, for him to go ahead and work.

I can stay.

This is where the rubber meets the racetrack.

♪ And I often sit and wonder what we should do... ♪

Back in the 1970s, we went to the racetrack,

the track was open the whole month of May,

so we had a little clique

that we called the Riff Raff Social Club.

And our whole clique was race fans,

and basically the whole month of May,

pretty much partied constantly.

So that's what we did.

The parties in the Snake Pit were pretty radical.

I mean, it was tits and ass and beer and weed.

We had a lot of fun and it was different women every night,

different women every day, so, yeah,

but we...we had a... we had a good time,

probably more fun than we were supposed to have.

We called Jeff Reed the Mayor of the Snake Pit.

He pretty much was the enforcer.

If anybody had any problems,

well, Jeff was the one to go to to take care of the problems.

He was a big teddy bear that'd have your back

and he was a trusted friend if you were in his side.

You had his back, he definitely had your back.

He could be like the Incredible Hulk.

He could be real nice one minute,

and if you pissed him off,

he could be very, very mean the next, so...

There had been times where he had hurt people.

He was always bigger and badder than everybody else.

Yeah, that's the van, no doubt about it.

The one I saw at the Burger Chef that night,

which I want to make this absolutely clear, OK?

I always said it was orange,

but I've learned over the years

when something is sitting under these parking-lot lights,

it puts off, like, an orange cast.

To me, it looked like a rust colour.

My husband always said it was a light colour,

but I remember, like, a rust-ish coloured van.

I think it would have taken a large vehicle.

It's very likely that something like a van

was involved in that crime.

Jeff had a yellow-ish Ford van back in the day that he drove.

Econoline. I think it was an Econoline van.

We used it quite often.

It was nice to have something you could put everybody in

and take it to one place.

If they can't even get

the colour of the van right, then...

-Wait! -What?

Light, dark.

Red, orange, yellow.

It's the same van.

They all saw the same van.

When it came in, it looked dark.

And then orange because of the light.

And then yellow as it catches the light

from the inside of the restaurant.

Right.

So in a discussion with Mark Reed

in regards to his brother, Jeff,

he does claim that he had a vehicle

that very closely matches that description -

a '70s model Ford Econoline,

a yellow colour but with a red primer as well.

So especially under certain lights,

you could certainly mistake it for lots of different colours

in that spectrum.

Which makes it very interesting,

because Allen Pruitt mentioned a van

that was orange in colour,

as well as one being that kind of make and model.

There's supposedly footage,

that I don't know that any of us have seen,

while a news crew

was filming the Burger Chef following the murders

where a man that fit the description of the Bearded Man

was seen in an orange van

and then out up near the Burger Chef building.

And kind of as soon as he realised

the cameras were on him,

kind of got skittish about being there.

You know, kind of claimed

that they really shouldn't get him on camera and took off.

Well, we hung out at White Castle.

It was like a hangout

for everybody in the evenings or whatever.

And Jeff had came up to me and he seemed a little distraught

and wanted to...wanted to talk.

So, he said there was something

that he really needed to talk about.

And I could tell by Jeff, he wasn't the type

that was real loose with his tongue or even, you know,

worried about anything.

So I said, "Yeah, well, we can talk."

We went back to my house at the time,

and said that he was in some trouble

and didn't know really quite what to do about it.

But I think he was more or less

trying to get it off his chest a little bit

to relieve some of the, you know,

what was going through on his mind.

And I don't know who else he even told.

I might have been the only one.

I'm still reluctant to tell you this now.

But I think everybody that knew Jeff well enough

knew if you did talk,

then something bad would happen to you.

Like I said, it's been a true...

..a true secret that I've held for 40 years.

And he said, "Well, I had... I was there that night

"and...I really don't know what to do."

So I just kind of stepped back and I didn't know what he meant.

I just thought maybe he was there

as, you know, a customer,

and to my disbelief,

he actually said that he was...

..was the one that was responsible for it.

I think Jeff knew that...

..had possibly drove by and seen her car there

or whatever and said, "Hey!

"I know this person owes some money.

"If I can get it, then all the better."

And like I said, the domino effect started,

and it just... it went just south real quick

when somebody stuck their nose into somebody else's business.

Hey.

Guys?

Look.

Jeff Reed?

They're all the same guy.

The guy Pruitt saw is the same guy

who confessed to his buddy, Tim Boyer.

You can ask me when I'm dead and gone,

if I get sent to hell, I will always say

it looked like Jeff Reed and Tim Willoughby.

And I'll never change that. Never.

And the guy that Jean lady saw driving.

Yes, I'm certain this is the guy.

'Cause I have a really good memory for faces.

You don't forget that.

And the one the Dunkin' Donuts chick

said was behind the restaurant.

Now, out of these pictures...

..this one is the one that resembles the Bearded Man

that came up to us that night.

I'll never forget the eyes and the nose.

The person in this 30-second video,

I cannot say with 100% certainty,

but he bears a striking resemblance to Jeff Reed.

He was never charged.

The person with him was a fellow named Tim Willoughby.

He said that he went to Burger Chef to collect a debt.

They owed money to Brett Kimberlin, the Speedway Bomber,

which was who a lot of us

were getting our marijuana from at the time.

While trying to collect the debt,

an individual came running at him

in...in a threatening way.

And I guess Jeff, in his usual fashion,

knocked him out.

He thought that he might have killed him.

And after doing so,

things started going totally sideways and he didn't know...

Well, everybody's adrenaline would jump in

and just straight panic.

He said they took the guy and put him in the back of the van.

And at this point, he tried to gather his thoughts,

looks up, and I guess

there's all the people in... in the Burger Chef

staring out the window.

And so, in the frantic state he was in,

collects the employees.

He said he stuck them in the cooler or something there

to kind of contain them so he could get his thoughts

on what he was actually going to do.

The car that was at the Burger Chef,

they didn't want to leave it there,

so he called somebody to come pick the car up

to get it out of sight and sell it.

We had some people that would chop cars,

but I don't think that they actually knew

that it was urgent.

And during this time, I guess he decided

that, from what I understand,

he was going to take them on a ride,

you know what I mean?

And take them out to the woods or whatever.

And his initial thought was to drop them off,

you know what I mean, just to get away

and then figure out what to do afterwards.

And things went sideways

and I don't know exactly, he didn't tell me what happened,

but somebody evidently tried to escape

or assault him or...or something,

and he ended up having to hurt the people.

I know the police said... or the reporter had said

that one of the individuals

I guess they'd thought had run into a tree

and killed himself, and Jeff laughed about that

and said, "No, it was a Louisville Slugger

"that he got hit with."

On the drive back from Johnson County,

he drove around for a while

and they put the weapons in a bag

and dropped it in a field in Hendricks County,

which...the area where he said

would be a big retail store.

I've never seen the police. I never talked to the police.

They never questioned me.

From what I understand, they didn't question anybody.

I've kept this under my hat for 40 years.

I have kids now, grandkids.

I believe there is a time for closure

for the families.

It was just a bad... a bad day, a bad, bad scene

that went totally, totally, totally bad.

The number one killer of people in America

is meddling in people's business.

Like, kind of what happened there.

It was after 1986

Jeff Reed got arrested in Hendricks County.

I became aware of it.

Somebody from the jail knew that I was interested in him.

He didn't have any money. He didn't have any place to stay.

I got a voucher from a community group

that puts up travellers and stuff that are destitute.

Got him a room.

Picked him up the next morning and bought him breakfast.

I actually lied to him. I told him I was retired.

I said, "Hey, I just want to know the answer to this."

And I went through what I believed happened

and, you know, accused him of murder.

Didn't read him his rights.

I said, "It's gonna be between you and me.

"I want to know the answer is all.

"The only reason we're sitting here."

He never said one word.

I know if somebody was accusing me of a quadruple murder,

I would have had something to say.

He never said a word.

I gave him a ride to somewhere and dropped him off,

and I never saw him again.

I think we've been close.

We just, we don't have the evidence to prove anything,

and you don't have...

..don't have the forensics to back things up,

you're just, you're...you're, uh, paddling upstream.

It's real frustrating.

But it's not near as frustrating...

Give me just a second.

The family members.

It's more frustrating for them not knowing.

It's... It's not fair.

These were children,

and you just looked at them and decided

that their lives didn't matter and took that away.

My mother used to cry about the fact

that they didn't just take her daughter away,

they took all of her grandchildren away.

I feel that Ruth was just an innocent person

that...that shouldn't have been in that situation.

No-one should have been in this situation.

She just was unlucky enough

to have been at work that night

and paid the ultimate price for it.

I don't know what closure feels like. It's...

It depends on the day.

You know, one day, I can be fine,

and then the weather's gonna change soon

and it's gonna get colder,

and then I'm gonna start having nightmares again.

And...

So...

..then there isn't closure at that time.

I believe...

..I believe the case is solvable.

40 years is a long time.

But I do believe that it's possible

to hold somebody accountable.

MAN: OK. OK.

My name's Ginger Anderson.

I worked with your son at Burger Chef, yes.

I just wanted to say hello.

Happy, friendly, loving, kind.

-Big-hearted. -Yeah.

-Well, thanks. -Always a smile on her face.

Wherever life took her,

it changed the way we lived, though, didn't it?

It did.

Changed my outlook on life some.

Definitely.

So...

..something you just never forget.

He was very friendly, had a great heart.

You know, good attitude about life.

Once, you know, we began going to school together,

you really get to know a person, and that was my friend.

He was just a happy kid.

He woke up smiling. He woke up happy.

At night he came in from school

and the first thing he said was, "Hey, Ma!"

The other two kids were not that way. They were more sober.

And if you said something to them in the morning,

they were grumpy.

But he wasn't. He was just very cheerful.

December 19, 1977,

which was her 17th birthday,

says, "Mom and Dad got me a dress. I'm 17 now.

"It's hard to believe next year I'll be 18."

After that, my mom had written,

"Ruth Ellen Shelton never lived to be 18.

"I love you and miss you so much."

You're supposed to find the bad guys.

That's the way the movie's supposed to end.

-See you, guys. -'Bye.

'Bye, Danny.

Hey.

-How was your shift? -It was good, man.

♪ Ooh-ee, baby

♪ You set me on fire

♪ Make me want to move towards something real

♪ Happy to see I still have the desire

♪ Of expressing the way that I feel

♪ I'm moving in a circle

♪ Round your love

♪ Moving in a circle round your love

♪ Ooh-ee, baby

♪ You don't understand me

♪ Want you to know how I feel about you

♪ Something going on

♪ To be perfectly honest

♪ I don't know where it's leading me to

♪ I'm moving in a circle

♪ Round your love

♪ Moving in a circle round your love

♪ You got me in the circle

♪ Of your love

♪ You got me in the circle

♪ Of your love

♪ I'm moving in a circle

♪ Round your love

♪ Moving in a circle round your love

♪ Round your love

♪ Round your love. ♪