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Police identify suspects in Burger Chef killingsSPEEDWAY, Ind. (UPI) -Police have identified two suspects in the slayings of four Burger Chef restaurant employees, although neither has been taken into custody forquestioning.The names, not made public by authorities, were provided by an informer who first wrote a letter to Speedway police, then followed it up with a telephone call and a personal meeting Tuesday night with Lt. Bill Crafton.The informant, who said he feared for his life if his identity became public knowledge, told Crafton he thinks the two men committed the murders “to get something on each other.”The informant said he thinks the men sought a mutual trust between themselves so that neither would inform on the other in later crimes.Crafton said one of the men has a long criminal record and the other is a drug addict. The informant said both men may have been “high” on drugs when the four restaurantemployees were abducted lastmonth during an apparent robbery. The four were found slain two days later in a wooded area south of Indianapolis.Crafton said the two suspects bear a resemblance to composite drawings of two men seen near the restaurant several hours before the crime.Earlier Tuesday authorities said a man who posed as a police detective and claimed to be a relative of one of the four slain Burger Chef restaurant employees probably was uninvolved in the slayings.Police did not identify the man publicly, but said he has a record of minor crimes and does resemble a sketch of one of two men developed by officials through witness descriptions.The man has a record ofconfidence games, not violence, however, state police said, so he probably was not involved in the mid-November killings.The four victims were found dead two days after a holdup that netted about $500. The bodies were discovered in a wooded area south of Indianapolis.The con man sought by police was named in a warrant charging him with nonpayment of a motel bill. Employees of a Beach Grove motel identified him as a lodger who stayed last week and left without paying.Motel employees said the man produced an Alabama driver’s license when he registered and used a nonexistent Lawrence address after scratching out a Lafayette address he had first listed.Burger Chef Systems has offered a $25,000 reward forinformation leading to the arrest and conviction erf the killers.The victims were Jayne Friedt, 20; Ruth Shelton, 17, Daniel Davis, 16, and Mark Flemonds. lfi
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