45 years since the still unsolved Burger Chef murders

The Burger Chef murders took place at a Burger Chef eating place in Speedway, Indiana, United States, on the night time of Friday, November 17, 1978. Four younger workers went lacking in what was once initially thought to be a petty robbery of money from the eating place's protected. By Saturday morning it was a transparent case of robbery-kidnapping, and through Sunday, when their our bodies had been discovered, a case of homicide. While investigators imagine they have got identified some or all of the perpetrators, with out bodily evidence they have got no longer been in a position to prosecute those that stay alive.

Any DLers have an concept who did this?

This reminds me of the Austin yogurt store murders. All young children and ultimate I heard never solved.

I blame the irresponsible Burger Chef Demolition Night promotion at the ball park that evening. An enraged surprise jock instigated the fracas because Burger Chef had yanked their ads over his unsubstantiated “Wendy’s spits of their chili” allegations.

It used to be obviously that whinge, Wendy! She hides a shank beneath the ones pigtails.

FYi, I grew up nearby a Burger Chef location. Their meals was once on point and after they installed a works bar it was once a big deal. AIl the 80s, all the Burger Chef locations I knew about was Hardee's.

BTW, A tender Eve Plumb (aka Jan Brady) gave the impression in their television business back in '77. (at link)

My dad referred to as the position "Booger Chef."

Who is killing the nice Burger Chefs of Speedway?

My dad was once a mechanic at The Speedway and I’d move with him once in a while to take a look at the vehicles. I consider we’d go this place and I’d get so scared. I was best Five however I kind of understood what took place. It changed into a Hardee’s and was still there once I left that shithole state in 2005.

70s child - I forgot all about Burger Chef till references to it gave the impression in Mad Men. Only then did I bear in mind how giant a sequence it was.

R8, glad on your a hit get away from Indiana. Truly a shithole!

Hardness is the speedy meals selection of rapists

There had been reports of an peculiar persona skulking around the property in a while sooner than the incident. Police launched a caricature from witness descriptions in the hopes that somebody would recognize this person of passion.

I cherished Burger Chef again in the 80s. The works bar used to be the perfect. Sadly we didn’t have any near us and best were given to go after we visited circle of relatives in Ohio. So bummed when it closed however no less than Wendy’s went into the previous house so shall we get Frostys

In 1954, Frank and Donald Thomas patented the flame broiler in their mum or dad corporate General Equipment Corporation and started their restaurant in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1957, they opened their first Burger Chef.

Burger Chef unfold across the United States, following a technique of opening retailers in smaller cities. By 1972, its number of locations (1,200) was surpassed handiest through McDonald's (1,600) .In 1968, General Foods Corporation purchased the chain and persisted its rapid enlargement. By 1969, international growth used to be underway with General Foods development ten Burger Chef outlets in Australia. The enlargement led to 1975 with a US$1.3 million loss.

The chain had two mascots: Burger Chef, voiced by way of Paul Winchell, and Jeff (the chef's juvenile sidekick).

In 1982, General Foods bought Burger Chef to the Canadian corporate Imasco, which additionally owned Hardee's, for US$forty four million (similar to $133.forty three million in 2022).I Imasco converted many locations to Hardee's eating places and let franchises and places near current Hardee's places convert to other brands.Remaining restaurants that did not convert to Hardee's or new names and branding merely closed.

Burger Chef restaurant to be razed 45 years after unsolved murders.

A lingering vestige of the notorious unsolved Burger Chef murders 45 years ago in Speedway will soon be obliterated.

The free-standing building at 5725-5735 Crawfordsville Road is being demolished and replaced via a dental workplace.

“It’s been a couple of shops over the years that by no means caught on for greater than a couple months and we’ve mentioned redeveloping over time however that hasn’t came about,” stated Speedway Town (*45*) President Vince Noblet.

Ruth Shelton’s sister, Theresa Jefferies, used to be 12 when the killings came about. She said she went to the construction a few years ago to take part in a documentary and it was once “terrible.”

But she mentioned never had sturdy feelings about its remaining erect.

“I’m peculiar that manner, I by no means blamed the building,” Jefferies mentioned, in part because she lives in Marion and doesn't need to move it often.

Other relatives of victims, she mentioned, feel differently and consider the construction “evil.”

“I feel in the event that they blessed the site after they tear it down it will imply so much to them,” she mentioned.

You'll notice Jeff totally dropped out of sight quickly after the murders

[quote]Burger Chef unfold across the United States

I'm seventy one and grew up in NorCal and traveled all over the place the US and can't keep in mind ever seeing a Burger Chef. They no doubt didn't have any locations the place I lived.

It used to be George….George Tropicana. I mean….George Glass.

[quote] Burger Chef unfold across the United States

Not the place I lived on Lawn Guyland. We did have a Dick Clark’s Whirl In. despite the fact that for one whole summer time. Then it closed down and was an eyesore for 40 years.

I liked Burger Chef as a child. It was open till I was Eight or 9.

I moved to Indiana for grad college in Bloomington in '88. Never heard of them. The conversion to Hardee's will have to had been complete by way of then. Plenty of those. It's kinda unhappy when an it sounds as if just right emblem disappears.

I was a latch key child in the 80s, and my dad gave me $Five for lunch on a daily basis in the summer season since I used to be left to fend for myself. I would walk to the Burger Chef every day and purchase a mushroom and Swiss burger, fries and a drink and most often had over a buck left to shop for ice cream at Baskin's. Needless to say I used to be a overweight child.

I bear in mind hearing about this case years later.

Booger Death! It used to be the only rapid food position in my college town back in the early 80s.

The only time I ate there was once when Mom took me to a doctor’s appointment. One the approach home, she handled me to Booger Death.

Sounds like a shithole the city

I guess it somebody the sufferers knew and could determine. That's why they have been all murdered. And it used to be more than one person in on the theft, so it's superb that none of them have stated anything. The law enforcement officials must have investigated all the former staff and their buddies.

I don’t know nothin’bout no murders but their Kid’s Meal was a favorite of mine.

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