On a summer evening in August 1978, seventeen-year-old Ernest Taylor vanished from Newark, New Jersey, along with four of his friends: Randy Johnson, Michael McDowell, Melvin Pittman, and Alvin Turner. The group of teenagers, who would become known as the 'Clinton Avenue Five,' were last seen together after playing basketball in a local park. They were reportedly offered odd jobs by a local carpenter, Lee Anthony Evans, and were seen getting into his pickup truck. Evans later told police he had
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