Osco #404 South Bend

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On a sunny, summer Saturday in 1990 all hell broke lose inside the Osco Store in South Bend Indiana. The store was robbed, leaving three dead and a mystery that lasted more than a decade before former employee, Charles Allen, was put on trial.

Was Allen responsible for the horrific robbery/murder? Or did South Bend police develop tunnel vision? Families would wait more than 10 years for an arrest and trial.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of the missing, the
0:08.6	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,
0:26.6	sweet summer perfection.
0:29.2	Scott Dick, a 29-year-old married father of two wouldn't get to enjoy the sunshine.
0:35.0	He was scheduled to work that day.
0:38.0	Dick was the assistant manager of the South Bend Osco Drugstore in the Phoenix Shopping Center on the west end of town.
0:46.1	Just after 730 a.m. he led himself in, using the store's front entrance, locking
0:51.2	it behind him before deactivating the store alarm.
0:55.5	Scott clocked in for his shift and started to prepare the store for the arrival of his
0:59.3	team and soon after the arrival of customers.
1:05.0	He had no idea that he was minutes away from coming face to face with an armed gunman intent
1:10.0	on robbing the store and leaving no witnesses behind.
1:14.8	Come with me to a sunny summer Saturday in late August of 1990 when a robbery ended in a brutal and
1:22.2	terrifying triple murder.
1:25.8	Saturday is a busy day when you work retail.
1:28.8	It's often the busiest day of the week for stores.
1:32.0	When Scott Dick arrived that morning, he immediately set to work getting everything in order to make
1:37.3	sure his team was off to a good start.
1:41.2	After deactivating the alarm, he accessed the top part of the store safe where the cash drawers are kept.
1:47.0	Each of the store's registers needed a cash drawer in place when the store opened.
1:52.0	If, like me, you aren't familiar with Osco, back in 1990 they were a drug
1:58.1	store similar to Walgreens or CVS. They sold health, self-care, and beauty items, some snack foods, and
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