Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder and suicide.

Last autumn, Kevin and I found ourselves standing at the corner of 21st and Cunningham in Speedway, Indiana.

It's a little confluence of streets that doesn't look much different from any

three-way intersection you might pass through in towns across America.

If you start down 21st, you can see the apartment complex where 16-year-old

Burger Chef employee and victim Mark Flemens lived and if you walk forward down

Cunningham moving past the rows of smallish homes and navigating around the strip

mall and the dog obedience school, you can be at the

Burger Chef restaurant in just a few minutes.

Something happened here at this intersection on the night of the murders.

At around the same time as the kids at the restaurant were being confronted by the men who would kill them,

a car on this stretch of road ran up over the curb. Maybe the driver, let's call him Terry,

although that's not his real name, was just a little distracted.

Maybe he had been drinking or even doing drugs. An alert police

officer pulled Terry over to try to figure it out, but the officer couldn't guess what the driver would do next.

Terry had a loaded gun in his car.

A 38, which was the same caliber of weapon the criminals in the Burger Chef case used. He did not want to get caught with it apparently.

So he put it in a Burger Chef cup and tossed it out the window of his car.

The police officer never even noticed. Had he missed a chance to

nab one of the Burger Chef killers as the crime was occurring? Or was Terry an

innocent man who simply had the incredible misfortune to run through the wrong

intersection with a loaded 38 on the wrong night? Thank you. So, Oh, My name is Anya Kane, and I'm Kevin Greenley.

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