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5 Newark Teens

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Took 32 Years to Get Solved

Essex County - Newark, New Jersey
Five Teenage Boys Missing 

Last Seen together on
  • August 20, 1978 @ around 11:00 PM on the corner of Clinton Avenue and Fabyan Place in Newark, New Jersey.  
  • ​Ernest Taylor  -       DOB:  8/9/61 @ 4:39 PM Newark, NJ
  • Randy Johnson -    DOB:  3/20/61 @ 1:08 PM  Newark, NJ
  • Melvin Pittman  -     DOB:  9/4/60 @ 4:00 PM  Jacksonville, FL
  • Michael McDowell - DOB:  5/29/62 @ 6:40 AM  Newark, NJ
  • Alvin Turner  -          DOB: 4/18/62 @ 4:30 PM  Newark, NJ
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These five teenage boys occasionally worked with Lee Anthony Evans, a handy man with a truck.  Witnesses have testified to seeing the boys in the back of Evans' truck on the corner of Clinton Avenue and Fabyan Place in Newark, New Jersey on the promise they were to help him move boxes.  

On 10/3/2011, Philander Hampton, was sentenced to 10 years for his role in the 1978 killings of these five teens.  Hampton, a cousin to Lee Anthony Evans, confessed it was Evans who masterminded the killings as payback because the boys stole a pound of his marijuana.  Evans locked the boys in a closet of an abandoned house at 256 Camden Street that Evans had recently just moved out of, nailing the door shut and setting the house ablaze. The boys remains were never discovered in the blaze.   ​In November of 2011, Evans was acquitted of the murder.
​See the links below to articles on this case.
These five teenage boys occasionally worked with Lee Anthony Evans, a handy man with a truck.  Witnesses have testified to seeing the boys in the back of Evans' truck on the corner of Clinton Avenue and Fabyan Place in Newark, New Jersey on the promise they were to help him move boxes.  

On 10/3/2011, Philander Hampton, was sentenced to 10 years for his role in the 1978 killings of these five teens.  Hampton, a cousin to Lee Anthony Evans, confessed it was Evans who masterminded the killings as payback because the boys stole a pound of his marijuana.  Evans locked the boys in a closet of an abandoned house at 256 Camden Street that Evans had recently just moved out of, nailing the door shut and setting the house ablaze. The boys remains were never discovered in the blaze.   ​In November of 2011, Evans was acquitted of the murder.
​See the links below to articles on this case.

Point of Last Seen to Point of Murder

​In the matter of Direction
It was a 048° TNVB which can otherwise be expressed as 18° of Taurus from the corner of Clinton Avenue and Fabyan Place to the point of 256 Camden Street where the boys were believed to have been burnt to death in a house purposely set on fire by Lee Evans.

​At the time of their disappearance
  • Mercury was 23° Leo Squared the Ascendant at 17° of Taurus which conjoined the point of the home on Camden by 1 degree. 

In all the birth charts each boy had planets forming aspects to this point from the corner of Clinton and Fabyan to 256 Camden Street.
  • Ernest Taylors' Sun @ 17° of Leo also Squared this point
  • Randy Johnsons' Moon @ 20° of Taurus Conjoined this point
  • Melvin Pittmans' Mercury @ 16° of Virgo Trined this point
  • Michael McDowells' Uranus @ 26° of Leo Squared this point
  • Alvin Turners' Venus @ 18° of Taurus Conjoined this point

​In the matter of Distance


It was 1.42 miles as the crow flies from the corner of Clinton and Fabyan to 256 Camden Street.  Google map showed 2.1 driving miles from point to point. No planet at the time of the disappearance gave the distance exactly to this point.  ​However, 3 of the 5 teens planets did, they were:
  • Randy Johnsons' Mercury was 2° of Pisces
  • Melvin Pittmans' Venus was 2° of Libra
  • Alvin Turners' Mercury was 01° 27' of Taurus
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Figure 1 - The red target is the corner of Clinton and Fabyan.  The White target is 256 Camden Street where the boys were burnt in a house fire.  The red vectors are for the planets measurements at the time they were last seen.  The blue vectors are for the each of boys' birth planets that either conjoined, squared or trined this point as listed to the left.

Works Cited

  • http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/10/suspect_in_1978_slaying_of_5_n.html
  • http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/lee_anthony_evans_convictedacq.html