Paul Edmonds was 78 when he was shot during a business meeting on the evening of September 25, 2020. Edmonds, who ran Diamond Stamp and Coin in Indianapolis for more than fifty years and collected Corvettes, had arranged to buy coins in the parking lot of a Hardee’s on Brookville Road. Surveillance shows his car pulling up beside a red Saturn SUV; a young woman identified as Kayla Blankenship entered his vehicle, then suddenly exited and fled as his car lurched forward. Edmonds drove to the restaurant, told employees the woman had shot him, and was taken to a hospital where he died on September 26, 2020.

Investigators identified Blankenship through emails found on a cellphone in Edmonds’ car and arrested her in Plainfield, Indiana; her boyfriend was also taken into custody on an outstanding warrant. Blankenship, 24 at arrest, was charged with murder and related offenses and later pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement. She was sentenced to 45 years in prison in May 2022.

Did anyone in the area see the parked cars or remember that Hardee’s lot on September 25, 2020?