Gerald Fields, 35, was working a part-time security shift at the Wigwam, a private club in northwestern Fairfield County, Ohio, when he was shot to death with a .22-caliber firearm in the early hours of April 30, 1978. Also known as the Reverend Gerald Fields, he supplemented his income through security work. Spent cartridge casings at the scene tied his killing by ballistics to a series of violent robberies and murders across central Ohio between December 1977 and spring 1978.

Ballistics comparisons connected the shell casings from Fields’ death to other shootings that included victims in Newark, Columbus, Granville and Franklin County. Investigators concluded the same .22-caliber weapon had been used in multiple attacks, and later found that two .22-caliber weapons were used in at least one incident, suggesting two attackers. The case broke after a December 1978 homicide led to arrests; subsequent searches recovered firearms and property reportedly stolen from some victims, and the attackers’ statements linked them to the series that included Fields.

Does anyone have memories of the Wigwam or the area around northwestern Fairfield County in 1978 that might shed further light on Fields’ last shift?