On a bitterly cold night in Newark, Ohio, on December 10, 1977, Joyce Vermillion, a 38-year-old female barmaid, finished her shift at the Forker's Caf�. A friend and patron, Karen Dodrill, who had been celebrating her own birthday, offered Joyce a ride home to spare her from the frigid -4 degree Fahrenheit weather. In a prelude to the tragedy that would unfold, Karen went to warm up her car.
As Karen was heading back toward the caf�, she was ambushed and fatally shot by an assailant hidin
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