Murder Sheet

After murdering 12 people at the Borderline Bar and Grill, Ian David Long turned his gun on himself and took his own life. With the killer dead and beyond the reach of earthly justice, one might imagine there would be no role for an investigative agency like the FBI to play in the case. But there was. This episode of the Murder Sheet focuses on a little known division of the FBI which concentrates...

After a restaurant robbery goes wrong, a Pennsylvania man finds himself convicted of murder. But that's not the end of the story for James Redline. It's only the beginning. This episode of the Murder Sheet features a harrowing hostage crisis, a son discovering his father's dark secret, mysterious mob connections, and even the popular 1990s band Fuel. This isn't just a story abo...

Emile "Bob" Zaniboni never came home one cold winter's night, over half a century ago. The next morning, his family discovered him murdered in the Cattle Car Restaurant he owned and operated alongside New York State Route 22, between Pawling and Wingdale. He'd been shot three times with a .22 caliber weapon, and his restaurant had been ransacked. To this day, the crime remains unsolved.  In t...

Willie Moretti showed up at Joe's Elbow Room in Cliffside Park, New Jersey a little before noon on October 4, 1951. He chatted with a group of men in Italian, and then somebody asked the restaurant's waitress to step away to fetch a menu. Within minutes, the longtime Mafia underboss was dead, gunned down on the dining room floor. But it wasn't Moretti's enemies that had caught up to the gangster a...

On a rainy November night in 2015, a beloved Jack in the Box manager disappeared from her apartment in Honolulu's Kalihi neighborhood. 39-year-old Helen Prestosa was gone, and no one knew why. Answers seemed imminent when police honed in on the troubled son of Prestosa's neighbor. But a contentious murder trial — which was nearly derailed by a courthouse breakdown — resulted in an outcom...

Do you love watching films and television shows with an air of mystery? Then listen to Mystery to Me, a new podcast from the creators of the Murder Sheet.  Every week, Áine and Kevin will watch a film noir, a cheesy detective movie, a taut psychological thriller, a televised police procedural, or some other tale of mystery. Then we'll dish out some spoiler-y, five-star final takes on whatever...

Edmund J. Cody is one of the worst Indianapolis serial killers you've likely never heard of. He preyed on women for years, hunting for victims like a modern-day Blue Beard. But his many crimes didn't become apparent to police until he gunned down a man at a White Castle restaurant in 1970.  Listen to this episode of the Murder Sheet to learn more about how an early morning shooting at a fast...

On this episode of The Murder Sheet Presents: "You Never Can Forget," we’ll be doing things a bit differently. Instead of taking you through another theory around the Burger Chef murders, we'll wrap up by tackling listener questions for a Q&A episode. Actor, comedian, podcaster, and true crime aficionado Matt Kissane will be posing listener questions to Murder Sheet co-hosts Áine Cain and Kevi...

In this episode of "You Never Can Forget," Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee will share their opinions on all the theories discussed in this miniseries on the Burger Chef murders. We'll also share our thoughts on the reasons why the crime has gone unsolved, how investigators can heat up this cold case, and why this all still matters today. If you have questions about the Burger Chef case or the miniser...

When investigators realized that two of the victims in the Burger Chef murder case had brothers with troubling connections to the Indiana underworld, they began to wonder if the ultimate answer to the crime might be found much closer to home than anyone previously suspected. On this episode of the Murder Sheet, we take a close look at Kevin Flemmonds-- who pled guilty in a drug related homicide--...

Like most decades-old cold cases, the Burger Chef murders have attracted a multitude of theories. In this episode, we'll cover a few intriguing possibilities that don't currently have enough evidence to merit their own episode. Listen to find out more about warring biker gangs, a roving family of serial killers, the bombings that terrorized Speedway a few months before the murders, and more. Follo...

Could the murders of the four young Burger Chef employees have gone down over a few hundred bucks? It's hard for some to believe, but it's the theory that former Indiana State Police detective Stony Vann came to hold after nearly two decades of work on the Burger Chef case. In this week's episode, the Murder Sheet sits down with robbery gang theory expert and retired ISP detective Todd McComas of...

Donald Forrester, a man with a long history of violence, confessed to the Burger Chef murders not once but twice — providing details that some investigators claimed had never before been publicly released. Yet neither he nor the other men he implicated ever faced criminal charges for the crime. Was this a failure of the criminal justice system? Or did the mistake lie elsewhere, with the inves...

Donald Forrester is perhaps the most famous suspect in the Burger Chef murder case. But before he confessed to the murders twice, he perpetuated a number of awful crimes. He terrorized the women around him, until a brave young woman survived a horrific encounter and sought bring him to justice. Learn more about why many people still insist that he got away with the killings. Follow the Murder Shee...

Allen Pruitt was more than a witness in the Burger Chef case. He told police in 1981 that he almost became a victim himself, saying that he barely escaped the two killers the day after the murders. He said that he ran for his life through the woods after Tim Willoughby and Jeff Reed lured him out to a lonely country road called the Devil's Backbone. But a deposition from a different police informa...

Could a missing man accused of killing his girlfriend be responsible for the Burger Chef murders? Or is he yet another victim? This episode covers one of the most confounding theories in the Burger Chef case. In 1981, Indiana State Police detectives Jim Cramer and Donovan Lindsay received a call from a jailhouse counselor. A young man was claiming to have information on the Burger Chef murders — a...

On November 17, 1978, four young employees vanished from the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. 42 years later, the Burger Chef murders — as they came to be known — remain one of the Midwest's most notorious cold cases. Join the Murder Sheet's Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee in the first episode of "You Never Can Forget: Investigating the Burger Chef Murders." This episode will delve into t...

On November 17, 1978, four young employees began the night shift at the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. By midnight, they had vanished, never to be seen alive again . Two days later, their bodies were found in a wooded area in Johnson County. To this day, no one has been convicted of the Burger Chef murders, as they came to be known. But the young victims — Jayne, Ruth, Danny, and Mar...