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Two sought for questioning in deathsINDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Stale police, have urged two men seen behind a west side fast-food restaurant a week ago to step forward for questioning Jn the deaths of four at the restaurant's employees.The two men talked with’ two teen-agers outside the Speedway Burger Chef about an hour before the four employees disappeared. State police Maj. Robert Allen said Friday the men may unknowingly have valuable Information,Alien said the men have nothing to fear tf they were not Involved in the deaths of the four worker's.The employees disappeared from the restaurant following a robbery a week ago while they were cleaning up after 1! p.m. closing. About $585was taken from the manager’s safe,authorities said.Assistant manager Jayne Frledt, 20; Ruth Shelton, 17;. Daniel Davis, J6, and Mark Flcmmonds, 16, were found dead In woods south of Indianapolis the day after they disappeared. Three of the victims were buried Wednesday.and Flem-monds’funeraJ was Friday,The teen-agers who talked with the men outside the restaurant helped authorities compile sketches. Both men shown in the drawings were about 30 years old, One is clean-shaven and the other sports a full beard.Three-dimensional busts of the two men were also unveiled at Marion County sheriff’s headquarters Friday to aid in Identification.Protective securityhas been stepped up as a result of harassing tele-1 phone calls received by families of the four victims, officials said'.John Shelton, Ruth’s father, said he received several harassing tele-Pon,e calls Monday and Thursday, the family also reportedly received an .S anonymous sympathyup. »sday'l (hc day, Of hisdaughter's funeral.Investigators said they have hot ruled out the possibility that the calls may be coming from someone connected with the case,Meanwhile, Oklahoma City authorities have ruled out any Immediate connections between two mossslayings in that state and the Indiana deaths.An Oklahoma City police spokesman sala homicide detective Lcs McCaleb and Darrel Wilkins, an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, headed back home Friday after cross-checking information In the three cases. ' ;They checked for possible connections between the Speedway killings and the June 22 deaths of three members of the Melvin Lorenz famj ily* of Texas, on Interstate 35 south of Purccll» Okla., and the July l6 robbory-sluyings of six employees of a Sirloin Stockade restaurant In Oklahoma CJfcy. ...There were ''no solid connections” established, saJd an Indiana State Police spokesman.
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Sat, Nov 25, 1978
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