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Today in History: The Burger Chef murders happened on this day at a Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana in 1978. Four young employees went missing in what was initially thought to be a petty theft of cash from the restaurant safe. By Saturday morning it became a clear case of robbery-kidnapping, and by Sunday, when their bodies were discovered in the woods 20 miles away, it became a a case of murder. Despite thousands of hours of police investigation, as well as Burger Chef offering a reward of $25,000 to anyone who could capture the murderers or provide information about their whereabouts, the attackers were never prosecuted, and the case remains officially unsolved.
1978 was also the year we had the Blackfriars Massacre where an unsolved Irish Mob and/or Italian-American Mafia massacre occurred in the Blackfriars Pub in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Four criminals were killed, allegedly over the sale of cocaine.
1978 was also the year that the Clinton Avenue Five went missing. The Clinton Avenue Five are five young men who disappeared in Newark, New Jersey. The name is derived from the street where they were last seen. The case eventually went cold.
1978 was also the year of the deliberately set Holiday Inn fire. The 1978 Holiday Inn Fire broke out at the Holiday Inn-Northwest which was located at 1525 West Ridge Road in the Town of Greece, near Rochester, New York, and killed ten people. Seven of the fatalities were Canadian. The case remains unsolved as well.
1978 was also the year of the Marseille bar massacre, which refers to the mass murder of ten people in the Bar du Téléphone in Marseille, France, on 3 October 1978. Three armed gunmen entered the bar and shot everyone present in the head, with the sole survivor being the owner's wife Nicole Léoni, who was in another room. This was believed to be part of a gang war, and it remains unsolved to this day.
1978 was also the year of the Sirloin Stockade murders. Armed with a handgun, Roger Dale Stafford and his wife and brother went to rob the restaurant and ended up killing six employees execution style. Roger Dale Stafford was suspected of 34 murders and was executed on Death Row in 1995.
1978 was also the year of the Jonestown mass suicide.
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