You Never Can Forget: The FBI Files: 302s and Changing Views

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On November 17, 1978, four young workers vanished from a fast food restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. Two days later, their bodies were found in the woods of Johnson County. The Burger Chef murders remain unsolved to this day. We still don't know who killed employees Jayne Friedt, Ruth Shelton, Danny Davis, and Mark Flemmonds, or why. It has been 45 years.

In this episode of "You Never Can Forget," we'll be speaking about the case with a friend and fellow researcher. He will take us through his thoughts on the FBI files released this past year.

Read along with the FBI files here: https://vault.fbi.gov/speedway-indiana-burger-chef/speedway-indiana-burger-chef-part-01/view

Our previous talk with Hank: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/dd25e41b-658d-478b-9790-345d43f32930

Check out True Crime Garage’s coverage of the Boardman murders here: https://truecrimegarage.com/blogs/true-crime-garage/posts/6935507/the-boardman-murders-part-1-567

Check out our coverage of the Laurel Jean Mitchell homicide here: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet?q=laurel%20jean%20mitchell

Check out our episode covering the murder case involving Kevin Flemmonds: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/7c947404-97a9-438c-85cf-a7b52eec5834

Check out Darren Gibson’s Burger Chef podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-burger-chef-podcast/id1565678862

Check out our interview with Kirk Thompson: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/59d39be4-5f2c-47b0-bdc1-cd6943cc77fe

Check out our interview with Mary Rein: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/ce72c240-28b4-40d7-9dc3-a59a24d1d1da

Check out our interview with Brian Kring: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/c92bc2bd-11dd-4fe4-8cd3-7437fda00c34

Our episode on the issues with the Indiana State Police’s handling of the Burger Chef case file: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/840bb3d2-6bbd-4877-8c45-447fb6bbd7f2

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0:00.0	Content warning this episode contains discussion of the brutal murder of four young people
0:07.1	on November 17th 1978
0:10.1	four young people clocked into work at the Burgosheft Restaurant on Coffordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana.
0:17.0	20-year-old assistant manager Jane Freet led the night shift, which consisted of 17-year-old Ruth Shelton, and 16-year-olds Danny Davis and Mark
0:26.8	Flemons.
0:28.1	They closed the restaurant at 11 p.m.
0:31.0	By midnight, they were taken. On November 19th, 1978 a couple found their
0:37.5	bodies in a wooded area in Johnson County, 20 miles away from the restaurant.
0:42.2	They had been abducted and murdered.
0:45.0	Jane was stabbed to death with such force that the knife broke off inside her.
0:50.0	Danny and Ruth were killed by multiple gunshots from a 38 caliber firearm.
0:54.3	Mark was asphyxiated.
0:56.1	He had sustained blunt force trauma to his face and then fell in such a way that he drowned in his own blood.
1:01.6	45 years later, the case remains unsolved.
1:06.0	Onya and I have worked on this case together for a number of years.
1:09.8	A few months ago, we received the FBI's case file on the Burgershev murders.
1:14.5	I had first filed to get that all the way back in 2019.
1:18.8	The Federal Bureau of Investigation had minimal involvement in the Burger Chef case.
1:23.4	Agents stepped in shortly after the employees disappeared.
1:27.4	At that point, there was the possibility that they had been abducted and transported across
1:32.1	state lines.
1:33.9	Once the bodies were found in Indiana, the FBI mostly stepped away.
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