Burger Chef

[TheFugitive]

The ones I remember were on Cochran Road in the Pittsburgh suburb of
Mt. Lebanon (location currently a Bruegger's Bagels store) and in the basement
of the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus (became
a Roy Rogers after Burger Chef filed bankruptcy, currently a cafeteria serving
much healthier fare).

[Amesguy2000]

Does anyone know anything about the Burger Chef Murders in Speedway way back when??? I just heard about it... can someone fill me in more about it

[TheFugitive]

It happened at a store near Indianapolis in 1978.  Four young employees, aged 16 to 20, disappeared.  A passer by found the back door open with nobody inside.  Around $500 was missing from the safe, and the cops presumed it was a case petty embezzlement.

Two days later the bodies of the four were found in the woods more than 20 miles away.
The new theory was that it was a kidnapping that stemmed from a botched robbery.
The theory is that one of the employees may have recognized one of the robbers and
they panicked.

There are supposedly suspects but without physical evidence they have never
been able to prosecute anyone.

[TheFugitive]

The former Burger Chef location in Indiana which was the site of an infamous 1978 kidnapping and murder is being demolished.  The building will be replaced by a dental office.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/burger-chef-restaurant-to-be-razed-45-years-after-unsolved-murders-what-it-will-become-next/ar-AA1mc7OJ