Richard Walter Rick Boeck was 21 when he was killed on February 2, 1981, while managing the Radio Shack at Beloit Plaza in Beloit, Wisconsin. He was inside the store with customer Donald Rains when Raymond Lee Stewart entered, forced both men toward the rear of the shop and shot them multiple times.

The Beloit murders were the final killings in a violent multiday spree that began in Rockford, Illinois, with other robbery-homicides on January 27–29. Investigators linked the crimes across state lines, and the FBI joined the search. Stewart was arrested in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 21, 1981; revolvers, ammunition and other items seized from him and his possessions were used in prosecutions. In Rock County Circuit Court he was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and armed robbery and received life terms plus an additional indeterminate term for robbery.

Did anyone who knew Rick at the Radio Shack or in Beloit remember him or notice anything unusual around February 2, 1981?