On August 20, 1978, sixteen-year-old Randy Johnson and four of his friends, Michael McDowell, 16, Melvin Pittman, 17, Ernest Taylor, 17, and Alvin Turner, 16, vanished in Newark, New Jersey. The five teenagers, who would become known as the "Clinton Avenue Five," were last seen together after playing basketball in a local park. They were reportedly seen getting into a pickup truck driven by Lee Anthony Evans, a local carpenter who sometimes hired them for odd jobs. Evans told police he had dropp
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