On August 20, 1978, five teenage friends from Newark, New Jersey, disappeared without a trace. The group, which included Ernest Taylor, 17, Randy Johnson, 16, Michael McDowell, 16, Melvin Pittman, 17, and Alvin Turner, 16, were last seen together after playing basketball in West Side Park. They were seen getting into a pickup truck driven by Lee Anthony Evans, a local carpenter who frequently hired them for odd jobs. Evans told investigators he dropped the teenagers off around 11:00 p.m. that ni
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