In the winter of 1988, 35-year-old Walter Muvich, a White male and co-owner of J&W Janitorial Services in Hammond, Indiana, was shot and killed during a workplace dispute. On the evening of February 12, an employee, William Benirschke, entered the J&W offices armed with a .22 rifle after complaining he was being shortchanged. Benirschke shot Muvich multiple times and then shot business partner James Cromwell, who had witnessed the attack; both men were also shot in the head to ensure they were dead. Benirschke took Muvich’s checkbook from his pocket and later told authorities he had intended to kill Muvich and killed Cromwell to eliminate a witness.

Benirschke was arrested and charged with two counts of murder and one count of robbery. Court-appointed psychiatrists found him not legally insane, a jury convicted him on all counts, and on August 31, 1988 he was sentenced to death plus ten years for robbery. After appeals, his death sentence was later commuted to 140 years in prison. If anyone knew Walter, his partner James Cromwell, or the business, please share what you remember or any information that might help fill gaps in the timeline.