Why The Burger Chef Murders Still Haven't Been Solved United Archives/Getty Images By S. Flannagan/Feb. 9, 2021 10:32 am EDT The story of the Burger Chef murders is harrowing: on November 17, 1978, four young employees working at a branch of the now-defunct fast-food chain Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana were kidnapped as part of a robbery. The bodies of all four — assistant manager Jayne Friedt (20), and staff Ruth Ellen Shelton (18), Daniel Davis (16), and Mark Flemmonds (16), per ABC News – were later discovered by walkers 20 miles from the restaurant, according to Indianapolis Monthly. Shelton and Davis had been executed together, with gunshots to the back of the head, while the body of Friedt, which was discovered nearby, showed that she had died from brutal stab wounds. Flemmonds had died of asphyxiation after receiving a blow to the head with a blunt object. Seemingly, all four had lost their lives for the sake of $581. The circumstances of the murders, their heartlessness, as well as the youth of the four victims made the Burger Chef murders front-page news, a crime so heinous that one would expect the police investigating the case to do everything in their power to bring the perpetrators to justice.