You are listening to the Already Gone podcast, sharing stories of the missing, the murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.

It started out like a typical August morning in South Bend, Indiana, partly cloudy,

temperatures headed for 80 degrees, sweet summer perfection. Scott Dick, a 29-year-old married

father of two, wouldn't get to enjoy the sunshine. He was scheduled to work that day.

Dick was the assistant manager of the South Bend Osco Drugstore in the Phoenix Shopping Center on the west end of town. Just after 7.30 a.m.

he let himself in, using the store's front entrance, locking it behind him before deactivating

the store alarm. Scott clocked in for his

shift and started to prepare the store for the arrival of his team, and, soon after, the arrival of

customers. He had no idea that he was minutes away from coming face to face with an armed gunman

intent on robbing the store and leaving no witnesses behind.

Come with me to a sunny summer Saturday in late August of 1990, when a robbery ended in a brutal and terrifying triple murder.

Saturday is a busy day when you work retail. It's often the busiest day of the week for

stores. When Scott Dick arrived that morning, he immediately set to work, getting everything in order

to make sure his team was off to a good start. After deactivating the alarm, he accessed the top part of the store safe where the cash drawers are kept.

Each of the store's registers needed a cash drawer in place when the store opened.

If, like me, you aren't familiar with Osco?

Back in 1990, they were a drug store, similar to Walgreens or CVS. They sold health, self-care,

and beauty items, some snack foods, and they had a small home section with cleaners, paper

plates, and the like, plus a photo department and a full-service pharmacy. After letting himself into the building

and deactivating the store alarm at 7.36 a.m.,

Scott started his own work while waiting on his opening staff,

clerk Connie Zaluski and store pharmacist Tracy Holvoit.

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