On a July night in 1976, 11-year-old Bonnie Bulloch, a male, was murdered after an armed robbery at an Amoco service station off I-20 near Crawfordsville, Georgia. Bonnie had been helping his stepfather, Henry Lee Phillips, when a car with three men — later identified as Jose High, Nathan Brown, and Judson Ruffin — pulled in. One man displayed a pistol and Ruffin carried a sawed-off shotgun. The men forced Phillips from the booth, took cash from the register, and then abducted Phillips and the boy.

Phillips was driven and placed in the trunk while Bonnie rode in the back seat. The trio drove to a remote wooded area, ordered both victims onto the ground, and then opened fire. Bonnie died at the scene from a gunshot wound to the head; Phillips survived gunshot wounds to the head and wrist and later identified his attackers. High, Brown, and Ruffin were arrested. Ruffin gave a confession. By 1978 High and Ruffin had been convicted; both received death sentences for Bonnie’s murder, with additional convictions and prison terms for armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and firearms offenses. Some of High’s convictions and sentences were later the subject of appeals and court rulings.

Did anyone in the community remember the Amoco station or the men who were seen there around that July night?