Elizabeth Shank, 28, was shot five times in the head and killed on March 9, 1976, during a robbery while working as a clerk at a convenience store in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. The two people identified in connection with the crime were Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty, 20 at the time, and Bonnie Jean Heath, 41. They were arrested on March 12, 1976, in Virginia after an armed robbery; at arrest they were found in a vehicle that contained the handgun used in the March 11 killing of 18-year-old service station attendant George Karnes in Duncansville, Pennsylvania.

Daugherty was convicted of first-degree murder in Shank’s killing and received a life sentence. Heath was convicted of robbery and conspiracy but was acquitted of the homicide charge in Shank’s case. The pair were linked to a wider multi-state crime spree that included additional murders in Florida and Pennsylvania.