Edwin Ellis ’Eddie’ Naifeh was 67 and the proprietor of a liquor store on Charles Page Boulevard when he was found murdered in Tulsa on January 7, 1975. He had been working in the store when a robbery turned violent; Naifeh sustained fatal blunt force trauma and the Tulsa Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Despite an investigation at the time, no arrests have ever been made and no suspects have been publicly identified. The case went cold and remains listed by the Tulsa Police Department’s Cold Case Unit. The murder continues to be one of Tulsa’s unsolved homicides from the 1970s.

Anyone with information about the robbery or those responsible is asked to contact the Tulsa Police Department.