Six people were killed in a robbery at a Sirloin Stockage restaurant in South Oklahoma City. Authorities from Oklahoma reviewed if there was a connection to Burger Chef Killings

Ruth telephones Speedway police to report seeing an automobile speeding through the Burger Chef parking lot where she worked after a bombing incident. ATF authorities did not follow up with a personal interview because they did not attach importance to the information

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The Burger Chef restaurant closes at 11 pm; Daniel Davis, Ruth Ellen Shelton, Mark Flemmonds and Jayne Friedt were working the closing shift. They were scheduled to work a few hours past closing.

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George Nichols was visiting his girlfriend who worked at the Dunkin' Donuts across the parking lot from Burger Chef. He went to Burger Chef to get a book of matches. At first, George saw no one. Eventually, someone came from the back, retreated, and then returned with matches. This person is believed to be employee Danny Davis. George returned to Dunkin' Donuts. He told police the back door was cracked open and he saw a light coming from inside.

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After getting matches, George and his girlfriend go behind the Dunkin' Donuts to smoke. Two men walk down the railroad tracks and approach the two. The men tell George and his girlfriend they need to leave because there has been vandalism in the area. George and his girlfriend go back to Dunkin' Donuts. George gives a description of the men. Those descriptions form the basis of the sketches and clay models circulated by law enforcement.

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Around midnight, Kirk Thompson leaves The Galaxy, across the street from the Burger Chef. He is planning on walking home with friend Mark Flemmonds. There are cars in the parking lot, the back door is open, but Thompson doesn't see or hear anyone. He walks home alone.

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Burger Chef employees Brian Kring and Ginger Anderson, out on a date, drive past the Burger Chef, and notice that Jayne's car is not there and that the lights are on. They don't see anyone in or outside the restaurant. Brian drops Ginger off at home.

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Around midnight Brian Kring stopped by the restaurant to visit the four employees who were closing. The lights were on, the register til was on the floor and two purses were still in the store. This employee noticed the back door was ajar, and promptly calls a Burger Chef manager. The manager advises Brian to call the police. $581 dollars were stolen.

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Brian Kring called Speedway police after he noticed the back door open but no one inside the restaurant. Two purses were left behind along with some of the employee's jackets. Jayne's 1974 Chevrolet Vega was also missing from the parking lot. However, at this time, the police took a report but did not process the scene as a crime scene and the restaurant was cleared to open the next day.

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Police find Jayne's white 1974 Chevy Vega abandoned in a park not far from the Speedway Police Station. The car is partially unlocked. The discovery of the car indicates foul play.

Location where Jayne Friedt's Vega was found

A couple who lived in White River Township discovered the four bodies on their property while on a walk. The bodies were found about 15 miles from the Burger Chef in a Johnson County woods.Ruth and Danny were found laying facedown, side by side just off a gravel path. They each had been shot multiple times in the head and neck. Jayne's body was found 50 to 75 yards away. She had been stabbed twice in the heart, the knife's blade broken off inside her chest. A visitor who attended her open-casket funeral observed what he thought was a "busted lip" and hoped Jayne had been able to put up a fight. Mark was found farthest from the others and closest to the main road. He was on his back near a creak. He had sustained blunt force trauma to his face and was left to choke on his own blood.

Location where bodies were found

Ruth's father received several harassing phone calls.

Ruth's father received two harassing phone calls at 3:00 am and 8:00 am.

The Burger Chef restaurant creates a reward fund of $5,000 for any information relating to the murders.

A Marion County Sheriff's deputy train in hypnosis works with Sgt. Virgil Vandagriff to speak with two teenagers who spoke to two men behind the Burger Chef restaurant an hour before the four employees were kidnapped and later murdered. After the session, a sketch artist created sketches of the two men. The teens told authorities that the pictures were between "90-95% accurate"

Marion County Sheriff's Office

Nearly 300 people attended Ruth's funeral including her friends and family. Ruth's former choral group, The Westside Church of the Nazarene Youth Choral Group sang in her honor.

Flanner Buchanan - Speedway Funeral and Cremation

Jayne's funeral is held. Many friends and family were in attendance to honor her life. Jayne had worked for the restaurant for more than three years and was recently assigned to the 5725 Crawfordsville Road location approximately six months earlier. She is buried at Terre Haute

Hall-Baker Funeral Home

Daniel Davis' funeral is held at Farley Mann Road Chapel with nearly 250 friends, family and community members were in attendance.

Farley Mann Road Chapel

On the day of Ruth's funeral, her father received an anonymous sympathy card. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that the calls and card could have come from one of the killers. An unknown person rang his doorbell at 8:16 pm.

Indiana State police establish a special tip-line for the Burger Chef case. Tips pour in but no substantial leads.

His family wanted to wait until after Thanksgiving, therefore Mark Flemmonds' funeral was held on November 24, 1978. The funeral was held at Williams Funeral Home with burial in New Crown Cemetery.

New Crown Cemetery

Clay busts of the two men wanted in relation to the Burger Chef murders were put on display by the Marion County Sheriff's Department. It would mark the first time police have used this type of method to help an investigation. One of the men is described as a white 35-year-old male, approximately 5 foot 9 inches and weighing 200 pounds with a heavy build and medium complexion and reddish-brown curly neck length hair parted in the middle with a full beard. The other is described as white, 29-30 years old, 6 foot 2 inches tall, slender build with a lighter complexion, black hair parted on the left side but combed to the right. The descriptions came from an outside hypnotist who hypnotized a teenage couple to recall information.

Marion County Sheriff's Office

James Friedt is arrested by an undercover officer for conspiracy to sell cocaine. Both law enforcement and the media speculated that Jayne had been a target and the motive was retaliation against her brother, James.

A new angle of the case is explored by law enforcement after the arrests of Friedt, and two others; Rodger Pearson, and Daniel Ray. Law enforcement believes that narcotics could be the potential motive for murder.

Donald Ray Forrester, who is in prison on a 95-year long sentence for rape recants his confession of killing two of the four employees. During an interview held at Marion County Jail, Forrester told the reporter that he confessed 'only to buy time' as a way to avoid being placed in general population. No other arrests have have been made.

Donald Forrester confesses to the shootings of Daniel and Ruth. He also provided Marion County investigators with the names of other people responsible for stabbing Jayne and beating Mark to death. At the time, Donald was serving a 95-year prison sentence for rape.