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The Speedway Murders: Australian filmmakers attempt to solve 1978 US cold case

The Speedway Murders: Australian filmmakers attempt to solve 1978 US cold case​

Photo: Supplied: NZIFF
At the end of their Friday night shift in 1978 four young workers at a burger restaurant in Speedway, Indiana went missing.

At first police thought they'd taken the petty cash and gone partying. But they didn't appear the next morning. By Sunday, the bodies of Jayne Friedt, Daniel Davis, Mark Flemmonds and Ruth Ellen Shelton had been found in the woods 30km away.

The Burger Chef Murders, as the case came to be known, was never solved - although there were suspects.

45 years on Australian filmmakers Luke Rynderman and Adam Kamien have tried to piece together what happened that night, interviewing witnesses, police officers and family members in an attempt to turn up new evidence about the case.

And they may have found something. Their film, The Speedway Murders, recreates the Burger Chef scene - with young Kiwi and Australian actors portraying the victims and running through the main theories of what happened that night. It's playing as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival.

Luke (left), on set. Adam, right. Photo: Supplied: NZIFF

 

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The Burger Chef Murder Victims:

L to R: Jayne Friedt, 20, Ruth Shelton, 18, Daniel Davis, 16, and Mark Flemmonds, 16.

 

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'May 30, 2024 #SpeedwayIndiana #BurgerChef
The trailer is here for THE SPEEDWAY MURDERS, a thrilling true-crime docudrama from Australia filmmaker duo Adam Kamien and Luke Rynderman. Discover one of the United States’ most baffling unsolved cases of four young employees kidnapped and brutally slain following the closing shift at a burger restaurant in Speedway, Indiana in 1978. See it first at New Zealand International Film Festival 2024.'

'Jul 20, 2022 Cold Cases to Dig Into
On Friday, November 17, 1978, the Burger Chef murders took place at a Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. Four young employees went missing (Daniel Davis, Mark Flemmonds, Ruth Shelton, and Jayne Friedt). Ridiculously, the missing teens were not taken seriously by investigators and were assumed to be petty cash thieves due to missing cash from the restaurant safe. The next day, Burger Chef was open for business as usual…It was only until their bodies were found in the woods days later, that investigators realized that they had wiped away possible evidence at a crime scene.How this case unravels will leave you in complete disarray'