David Mark Schwochert was 16 and a junior at Burlington High School when he was abducted from the Clark Service Station on Milwaukee Avenue during the early hours of January 1, 1973. He had agreed to cover an overnight shift and was found around 8 a.m. that morning in a field along Highway 36, about two miles from the station, lying on his back in his blue Clark gas station uniform with two gunshot wounds to the head from what is believed to have been a .38 caliber firearm.

About $60 and his coin changer were taken from David, though money in a back room at the station was left untouched. His wallet was recovered roughly a mile from his body, a bloodstained towel was recovered at the scene, and a coin changer similar to his was found eight to nine miles away. Evidence was sent to a state crime lab and, decades later, reportedly resubmitted for modern analysis, but no arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Burlington have information about David, his shift that night, or the movements of a blue Clark attendant around New Year’s Day 1973?