360: Kidnapped From Burger Chef Then Found Murdered... The Unsolved Speedway Murders

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

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Intro 0:00
Where, What, Is Speedway? 4:05
We Miss You, Burger Chef 5:35
The Fall of Burger Chef 15:26
Dream Team Crew 16:25
A Strange Night in Speedway 23:02
An Early Giveaway? 28:37
The "Investigation" Begins 32:10
All Four Employees are Found 37:56
One of the Most Bizarre Investigations 46:47
A History of Violence 50:29
The Speedway Bombings 56:33
Allen's Story 1:07:45
Last Ditch Effort 1:15:28
Aftermath 1:20:16
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:27:53

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0:00.0	Hey, what is up, everybody? And welcome back to Mile Higher podcast, episode 359.
0:22.3	And today, we're taking a look at an older case that is very mysterious, very intriguing.
0:29.5	And I have been thinking about it nonstop since we started looking into this case, because I am just totally confused.
0:37.1	It is also the most egregious example of police incompetence I think I've ever seen of my life.
0:45.1	It's so, so bad.
0:47.5	I mean...
0:48.7	This is a totally solvable case.
0:51.6	Yeah.
0:52.5	And because the police were such idiots who showed up initially to this scene.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:59.0	That this has now gone unsolved for over 40 years.
1:01.8	Made assumptions.
1:02.6	Lazy as fuck.
1:03.7	Yeah.
1:04.3	And likely, there's a small chance that it will be solved at this point just because
1:09.6	of how much time has passed and the fact that very little physical evidence was able to be gathered at the scene.
1:15.0	And it really should have been a slam dunk.
1:17.1	For sure.
1:17.7	And we're talking about the murder of four very young people, some of them still children.
1:22.9	And it's just, it's actually so heartbreaking that these families still haven't had answers after all this time.
1:30.6	It's crazy because this occurred in 1978.
1:32.9	We're talking about the unsolved burger chef murders.
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