Bryon Schletewitz, 27, was murdered on September 5, 1980, while closing Fran’s Market in Fresno, California. He had persuaded his father to go home early and stayed to lock up; two employees with him, high school senior Josephine Rocha and college student Douglas White, were also shot and killed that evening.

Investigators later determined the killings were part of a revenge plot ordered from Folsom Prison by inmate Clarence Ray Allen. Allegedly motivated by Bryon’s testimony against Allen in an earlier murder case, the plot was carried out by Allen’s son, Kenneth Allen, and formed part of a wider conspiracy targeting others who had testified or were seen as threats.

Clarence Ray Allen was charged in connection with the Fran’s Market slayings, convicted in 1982, and sentenced to death. The families of the victims have endured a long aftermath from the crime.