Steven Staples

On the morning of March 25, 1978, the quiet of a Shoney's restaurant in Henrico County, Virginia, was shattered by a brutal triple homicide. Steven Staples, the 20-year-old male morning manager, was found murdered alongside two of his co-workers, Agnes Hicks, a 43-year-old waitress, and Franklin Cooley, the 35-year-old night custodian. A breakfast cook arriving for his shift around 6:35 a.m. discovered the gruesome scene. The glass in the lower part of the front door was shattered, and inside, t ...