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Terri Michele Horst was 16 and working the evening shift at the Sirloin Stockade in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1978, when three people entered the restaurant to commit an armed robbery. The suspects forced employees and the manager into the walk-in freezer and then opened fire. Terri was found with gunshot wounds to the head and chest and was the only victim still alive when emergency responders arrived; she was taken to Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital but died before reaching the operating room.

Investigators later connected the attack to a string of violent crimes by Roger Dale Stafford, his wife Verna Stafford, and Roger’s brother Harold Stafford. Roger and Verna were arrested in early 1979 after Roger, reportedly intoxicated, contacted police and implicated the others. Roger Dale Stafford was sentenced to death and executed on July 1, 1995; Verna Stafford received two consecutive life sentences. Harold Stafford died in a motorcycle accident soon after the killings.

Does anyone have memories of Terri or information about the Sirloin Stockade murders that could add detail to her story?