On the night of November 17, 1978, 16-year-old Daniel ’Danny’ Davis and three coworkers vanished from the Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana. Danny, a sophomore at Decatur Central High School who had recently started as a cook, was still waiting for his first paycheck. He was described as a Caucasian teen interested in photography and hoping to join the Air Force.

Their bodies were found on November 19 in a wooded area in Johnson County, still in work uniforms. Danny and Ruth Shelton were found side-by-side, face down, each shot multiple times in the head and neck with a .38 caliber firearm. Jayne Friedt had been stabbed twice in the heart, and Mark Flemmonds died of blunt force trauma to the face. The abduction and killings were believed to stem from an armed robbery.

Investigators lost crucial evidence early on after the restaurant was cleaned and reopened, and the lack of physical evidence has hindered prosecution. In 1986 Donald Forrester, then serving time for rape, confessed to shooting Danny and Ruth and implicated others, but no one has been definitively charged or convicted. Does anyone have information about Danny, the Burger Chef that night, or the investigation that could help finally close this case?