![]() ![]() Andrews returned with a bottle in a brown paper bag, from which Pierre poured a cup of Drano drain cleaner. With five people now held hostage in the basement, Pierre told Andrews to get something from their van. Both Orren Walker and Carol Naisbitt were taken hostage and tied up in the basement. Cortney Naisbitt's mother, Carol Peterson Naisbitt, also arrived at the shop later that evening looking for her son, who was late getting home. Later that evening, Orren Walker, Stanley Walker's 43-year-old father, became worried that his son had not returned home and went to the store. He was also taken hostage and tied up in the basement with Walker and Ansley. Later, a 16-year-old boy, Cortney Naisbitt, arrived to thank Walker for allowing him to park his car in the store's parking lot as he ran an errand next door. Pierre and Andrews took the two into the store's basement and bound them. ![]() Two employees, Stanley Walker, aged 20, and Michelle Ansley, aged 18, were in the store at the time and were taken hostage. Four of the group entered the shop brandishing handguns, while Roberts and another man remained with the vehicles. On April 22, 1974, Pierre, Andrews, Roberts, and three other men drove in two vans to the Hi-Fi Shop at 2323 Washington Boulevard, Ogden, just before closing time. Pierre and Andrews were both sentenced to death and executed for murder and aggravated robbery, while Roberts, who had remained in a getaway vehicle, was convicted of robbery. Police only had enough evidence to convict three enlisted United States Air Force airmen: Dale Selby Pierre, William Andrews, and Keith Roberts. The crime became notorious for its extreme violence and later accusations of racial bias in the Utah judiciary. ![]() The hostages were also forced to drink a corrosive drain cleaner, causing burns to their mouths and throats. Violence included kicking a pen into an ear and the brutal rape of an eighteen-year-old girl who was later shot in the head. Several men entered the Hi-fi Shop shortly before closing time and began taking hostages two would survive but with severe life-changing injuries. The Hi-Fi murders were the torture and killings of three people during a robbery at the Hi-fi Shop, a home audio store in Ogden, Utah, on the evening of April 22, 1974. ![]()
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