On November 8, 1988, David Richard Uhl, 42, and Teresa Marie Dempster, 27, were found fatally shot inside a car parked at a Glendale, Arizona, shopping center. The deaths were treated as targeted killings, and investigators later linked the case to suspects who had left the state.
In January 1989 authorities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, arrested John Martini, 58, and Teresa Afdhal, 29. Their arrest stemmed from the kidnapping and murder of a 58-year-old New Jersey man, Irving Flax; during that inquiry it emerged Martini was wanted in Arizona on first-degree murder charges in the Uhl and Dempster killings. Martini reportedly confessed to kidnapping Flax for ransom, shooting him after receiving $25,000, and Afdhal said the kidnapping was meant to finance the pair’s travels.
Martini was held as a fugitive from Arizona with high bail on the East Coast charges. Does anyone have information about Uhl or Dempster, their lives, or their last known movements?