30 years ago on this date, April 22,
1974, a brutal killing of 3 people occurred at a shop in Ogden, Utah. Let us
not forget the 3 victims and 2 survivors. 2 of the 3 perpetrators, Dale Selby Pierre and William Andrews, were executed by lethal injection in Utah on August
28, 1987 and July 30, 1992.
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This is Downtown Ogden,
Utah.
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The Hi-Fi murders were the
brutal killings of three people during an armed robbery at a home audio store
called the Hi-Fi Shop in Ogden, Utah, on April 22, 1974. Five people had been
held hostage and tortured, but two survived with severe injuries. All were
bound and forced to drink Drano (a corrosive drain cleaner). One victim had an
inkpen stomped into his ear, and a teenage girl was repeatedly raped before
being flung face-down on the floor and shot in the head. The crime became
notorious for the violence inflicted against the victims and accusations of racial
bias in the Utah judiciary.
Police believed that six men were
involved in the crime but only had enough evidence to convict three enlisted United
States Air Force airmen, named Dale Selby Pierre, William Andrews, and Keith
Roberts. Pierre and Andrews were both sentenced to death for murder and
aggravated robbery while Roberts, who had remained in a getaway vehicle, was
convicted of robbery.
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