On March 11, 1976, 18-year-old George Karns was working as the lone attendant at the Shaw Oil Company gas station in Allegheny Township, Blair County, when he was shot five times in the head during an armed robbery and killed instantly. About $400 in cash was taken and there were no immediate witnesses at the scene.

The day after the killing, two people were arrested in Buckingham County, Virginia, following another armed robbery. Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty and Bonnie Jean Heath were stopped in a 1964 white Thunderbird that had been identified in the Blair County crime. A .25 caliber handgun recovered from the car was tied to Karns’s murder, and officers also found his wallet and other items linking the pair to the series of crimes. Criminal complaints filed in Blair County on March 20, 1976, charged both with criminal homicide, robbery, conspiracy, and firearms violations; extradition from Virginia followed amid extensive pretrial publicity.

Are there readers who remember the Shaw Oil station or saw the 1964 white Thunderbird in the area around March 11, 1976?