On December 5, 1978, 41-year-old Foster Ellis Luyster Jr. was found shot to death in his home at 1326 S. Indian Avenue in Tulsa. His 6-year-old son discovered him after coming home from school; the boy first thought his father had been in a fight and was simply sleeping.

Foster’s wife raised the alarm when he failed to pick her up from an appointment at 4:30 p.m., and the son told her that Daddy was bleeding and hurt. Investigators reported no signs of forced entry, suggesting Foster may have known his killer, but early evidence was compromised when neighbors cleaned blood at the scene before police arrived. Years later investigators named two persons of interest: a white male known as Cliff or Clifford, described in 1978 as early to mid-30s, 5 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 11 inches, 150–160 pounds, short blond hair, mustache, ruddy complexion, possibly employed at a Git-N-Gone in Sand Springs and possibly arrested for DUI in late 1978; and a Native American man known as George, mid-to-late 30s or early 40s in 1978, black hair, dark brown eyes, poor complexion, known to wear many rubber bands on his wrist, a hobby of flying model airplanes, and thought to have struggled with substance abuse.

No arrests have been made and the homicide remains unsolved.