In February of 1977, Carl and Veronica Richter were heading home from a work party that ran late. Carl had just been promoted to a new regional position for the toy company he worked at. To save time, they decided that they were going to take the interstate instead of the usually, icier back roads.

It had been an especially wet winter in northern Ohio so they decided that it was probably going to be a little more dangerous, too. They would only need to drive on the interstate for about 10 miles. Since it was late, there was hardly any traffic.

They were quite surprised when they pulled up and found that the road ahead had a blockade of black vehicles. Men in suits were standing around talking to one another and a couple of them seemed to be having an intense conversation with a man in a police uniform.

A couple of the suits came over to talk to Carl and his wife. Carl said he rolled down the window to his car and the man in the suit told him that the interstate was closed as a ma