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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Infamous 'Burger Chef murders' building is being demolished

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:26.0

Ah Royal Spa.

0:29.0

Did you see this article that they are tearing down the building that housed the

0:34.8

burger chef where the infamous burger chef murders were in Speedway in the 1970s.

0:39.8

Right so to reset for those for the younger members of our audience

0:43.8

burger chef was a very broad chain of hamburger

0:47.6

restaurants I think they had 1200 at their height but I mean they were

0:51.2

national they were national they were not quite a rival to

0:54.2

McDonald's but I mean they were playing in that vein they were up there with like

0:57.2

Burger King and Wendy's but yeah and they were based out of Indianapolis and they were all over the place here in Indy and now you'll still see a lot of Burger Chef buildings that are dry cleaners and pawn shops and various other buildings.

1:12.7

So the Burger Chef legacy still lives on.

1:16.0

But in 1978, there were four Burger Chef employees

1:20.3

that just disappeared from the Burger Chef out in Speedway and then I think they found them dead in a field down in Johnson County.

1:27.8

Yeah, and obviously it remains an incredible mystery.

1:31.8

Yeah, no arrests were ever made.

1:33.6

It was, yeah.

1:34.6

And like he said, the bodies were found in Johnson County,

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