When four employees vanished while closing up their restaurant in Speedway, Indiana on November 17, 1978, the police assumed they’d run off with the day’s cash — but then they were found murdered.
In 1978, Speedway, Indiana, was a quiet town of less than 13,000 people that was only on the map due to the nearby Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That November, however, the town made the news for a different reason: the Burger Chef murders.
Four employees of a local fast food chain vanished while closing the restaurant on the night of Friday, Nov. 17, 1978. The police initially thought that the young men and women — who ranged in age from 16 to 20 — had simply stolen cash from the register and gone out to party. It wasn’t until their bodies were found two days later that they realized what had really happened.
By that point, the restaurant had been cleaned and reopened. Any evidence had been scrubbed away. The perpetrators were long gone…