You Never Can Forget: The Witness

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True Crime, Murder, Unsolved Case, Killing, Murderer, Cold Case

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Should the sketches in the Burger Chef murders be thrown out altogether? In this episode of the Murder Sheet, we'll reveal information that we feel indicates that the sketches are completely unreliable.

Mary Rein is an important figure in the Burger Chef case. She's one of the teenaged witnesses who said she saw two white men — one bearded, one clean-shaven — behind the restaurant on the night of the disappearances. Rein is also an acquaintance of Allen Pruitt and his friend David Adams, who ended up at the Dunkin' Donuts next door that night. Over the years, she's struggled with a drug habit, and a recurring feeling of guilty.

In this episode of the Murder Sheet, Mary Rein will go on the record about the case. She will also reveal that she purposely flubbed the description of the clean-shaven man she said she saw behind the Burger Chef that night.

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0:00.0	Content warning, this episode includes discussion of murder and violence.
0:08.6	Among the famous images in the Bergerchev murder case, the sketches are iconic.
0:15.7	They're up there with that haunting quadriptych of the four smiling victims, the newspaper
0:21.1	photos of the stark, wintry woods where the bodies were found, and those awful alien looking
0:28.1	clay busts.
0:30.7	On November 20, 1978, days after the murders, police released two sketches.
0:38.9	The next day, the Indianapolis News reported that the sketches were composite works drawn
0:44.8	from the recollections of three possible witnesses who were said to have been placed under hypnosis
0:51.0	before working with police artists.
0:54.6	Both sketches show white men.
0:58.6	One has a full beard and a mustache, thick rounded eyebrows, and long hair that hangs in waves
1:05.6	over his forehead and ears.
1:09.0	He's got a nose that almost looks like it's been broken before, and dark eyes.
1:15.4	He could be a hippie, or a mountain man, or a biker, or just a guy with facial hair.
1:22.8	That's the bearded man.
1:24.9	His companion is the clean shaven man.
1:28.4	He's sporting a more clean cut look, with hair that's neatly combed and parted far to
1:34.7	the left side of his head.
1:37.7	He's young, with a long face tapering into a narrow chin.
1:42.3	He gives off a more polished square impression than his bearded companion.
1:49.2	Last week, we told you about some things that may make you reconsider the modern day investigation
1:54.3	into the Bergerchef murders.
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