On the evening of Saturday, April 13, Betty Jo Booker, age 15, was playing her alto saxophone in her regular weekly gig with her band, The Rythmaires, at the VFW Club at West Fourth and Oak Street. Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning, April 14, her friend Paul Martin, age 17, arrived to pick her up from the performance. This was the last time the pair were seen alive. Martin's body was found at around 6:30 a.m. that morning by Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Weaver and their son, lying on its left side by the northern edge of North Park Road. Blood was found further down on the other side of the road by a fence. He had been shot four times—once through the nose, again through the left fourth rib from behind, a third time in the right hand, and finally through the back of the neck.