On August 20, 1978, 16-year-old Michael McDowell, along with his four friends, Randy Johnson, 16, Melvin Pittman, 17, Ernest Taylor, 17, and Alvin Turner, 16, vanished in Newark, New Jersey. The group, who would become known as the "Clinton Avenue Five," were last seen together after playing basketball in a local park. They were reportedly picked up by a local contractor, Lee Anthony Evans, for whom they occasionally did odd jobs. Evans initially told police that he had hired the teenagers to he
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