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True Crime Brewery

The Burger Chef Murders (re-release)

True Crime Brewery

Tiegrabber Podcasts

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this re-release of a premium show from 2022! For more of these episodes and to get rid of ads, you can subscribe at tiegrabber.com/subscribe Late on the night of November 17, 1978, Speedway, Indiana teenager Brian Kring stopped by his workplace, the Burger Chef fast food restaurant, to visit with his friends and […]

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0:00.0

True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real-life crimes.

0:05.7

Medical information is opinion based on facts of a crime

0:08.9

and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.

0:13.0

Listener discretion is advised. They just feel like, you know, here's this particular area. area. If it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone. And that makes people uneasy.

0:36.6

Four young people uneasy.

0:46.3

Four young people murdered after they were kidnapped from work at the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway. The Speedway Police Department and the Indiana State Police announced that the bodies of Jane C. Freed, 20, Marcus Flemens, age 17, Daniel R. Davis, age 16.

1:01.0

Ruthie Shelton, age 17, have been discovered late this afternoon in Johnson County, Indiana.

1:07.0

It's been 35 years, but Teresa Jeffries can't forget losing her older sister and the chill in the air.

1:13.6

When fall hits, when the weather starts getting cold again.

1:18.6

The day after she was buried was Thanksgiving.

1:24.6

I have two children alive and one in heaven. Together, sister and mother share

1:30.1

family memories. The dress Ruth wore in the family photo. The last dress that my grandmother

1:35.7

had made for her. And a high school ring are keepsakes they'll cherish. She was my only sister.

1:41.5

I idolized her. I wanted to be just as happy and go lucky as she was.

1:49.9

Jeffrey says she still has nightmares thinking about how her sister and the three other Burger Chef employees were brutally murdered.

1:57.1

I honestly believe that it will never be solved.

2:01.0

The scene was never really processed as a crime scene.

2:04.1

But it was a crime scene.

2:05.9

Assistant manager Jane Freed's car was found abandoned in the morning a few miles away near the police station.

2:12.0

Then, two days later, a couple found the four young people murdered.

2:16.0

Their bodies 20 miles away, scattered in a wooded area off State Road 37 in Johnson County.

2:22.5

They were killed three different ways, shot, stabbed, and possibly beaten with a chain.

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