On August 21, 1981, 31-year-old Daryle Cole and his 21-year-old girlfriend Stacey Balonek were found murdered in Toledo, Ohio. The couple had returned from a trip to Daytona Beach and were parked near Stacey’s residence on Doyle Street when Anthony Cook approached them, forced them at gunpoint into the trunk of Daryle’s 1979 Pontiac Grand Prix, and drove to a secluded spot under the Central Avenue overpass. Stacey was sexually assaulted and both victims were beaten to death with Daryle’s aluminum baseball bat.

Their bodies were discovered in the car trunk. Authorities later apprehended Anthony Cook; he and his brother Nathaniel were linked to a series of violent abductions, sexual assaults, and murders in the Toledo area between 1980 and 1981.

Anthony Cook was convicted of multiple murders, including those of Daryle Cole and Stacey Balonek, and sentenced to life imprisonment; Nathaniel Cook was also convicted and received a lengthy prison term.