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Mark Flemmonds

Case from Speedway, IN dated Nov 19, 1978

Victim Details

Mark Flemmonds

March 7, 2024

Male

Black / African American

Speedway

IN

1978-11-19

1978-11-18

1961-12-31

$0.00

16

44-14915

ruth-shelton

Mark Flemmonds

Mark

Flemmonds

Victim

07/18/2026


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A 16 year old Burger Chef employee is kidnapped and murdered
On a November night in 1978, 16-year-old Mark Flemmonds was covering a shift for a coworker at the Burger Chef restaurant on Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. He was working alongside the assistant manager, 20-year-old Jayne Friedt, and two other teenage employees, Ruth Ellen Shelton, 17, and Daniel Davis, 16. It was a Friday, and the four were on the closing shift. Sometime after the restaurant closed at 11:00 p.m., all four employees vanished.

The next morning, when another empl ...
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