View Full Version : Unsolved Gas Station Homicide - Anyone have an update on the Brian Foguth case?


Aaron321
05-30-2006, 11:37 AM
I don't remember when it aired originally,but it insolved a gas station employee named Brian in Ohio who was shot and later died after the robber mistakened the gas pump alarm for a robbery alarm.very sad case.hope they caught the scum.anyone know of an update?

kadrmas15
05-30-2006, 04:32 PM
I want to say that was in 1992 or 1993 that it happened. I dont really remember much about it. I believe the clerk as you said named Brian was in his 20's. But I honestly dont remember much about the case whether ther was witnesses or anything of that sort.

Kane
05-30-2006, 07:10 PM
I want to say that was in 1992 or 1993 that it happened. I dont really remember much about it. I believe the clerk as you said named Brian was in his 20's. But I honestly dont remember much about the case whether ther was witnesses or anything of that sort.

I recall from the segment that the murder occurred in November 1994. UM ran the segment a year later. While I don't remember the victim's name, I remember the UM segment showing surveillance photos of the crime. It noted that the killer appeared to have a physical characterisitc on his back. It looked like a hump, but it could very well have been something hidden.

Debbie1675
08-29-2006, 04:55 PM
As far as I know the they never caught the murderer. The victim's name was Brian Foguth, he was 23 years old. He was shot on Nov. 28th,1994 about a mile away from where I had lived in Brimfield ,Ohio. It really shocked the communtiy.

Princessvaleri7
08-20-2011, 11:02 PM
They never found his killer. My ex husband went to high school with Brian. Brian was funny and an amazing guy as I heard many stories....

Orange_Sody_84
08-22-2011, 06:03 AM
Never heard this story before. very sad. :/ I give props to people who work at gas stations and Convenience stores. you always hear about how they have a high rate of being robbed. or they have to deal with the Salt of the earth.

Steve W.
08-22-2011, 10:49 AM
It's Brian Foguth's case. It was in November 1994:

http://www.unsolved.com/murder.html

I believe it is still unsolved, Aaron.

Hambone2421
08-22-2011, 10:54 AM
This was most definitely a sad case. I believe they say that the beeping notice inside the gas station of a car pumping gas out front freaked out the killer who thought it was an alarm going off and killed Brian. From the looks of the video, Brian was seen to have been doing what he was told by the killer, hoping to be left alone. I hope they catch this idiot.

dks64
08-22-2011, 02:06 PM
They never found his killer. My ex husband went to high school with Brian. Brian was funny and an amazing guy as I heard many stories....

Thank you for the update.

How sad :( The family deserves closure.

packwoj
11-18-2011, 09:08 PM
Thank you for the update.

How sad :( The family deserves closure.

Yes Brian was my brother and to this day we don't have the murderer. He was an amazing man and now I have the best guardian angel ever! If anyone out there knows anything please tell us after all these years I would also love some closure. It has changed me and my life - it isn't the same without my best friend and brother, Brian!

TheCars1986
11-19-2011, 03:45 PM
I think the odds are high that his killer is either dead or incarcerated for another crime. I hope so at least.

Victoria81
11-22-2011, 03:07 PM
Yes Brian was my brother and to this day we don't have the murderer. He was an amazing man and now I have the best guardian angel ever! If anyone out there knows anything please tell us after all these years I would also love some closure. It has changed me and my life - it isn't the same without my best friend and brother, Brian!


So sorry for your loss :(

WishfulDreamer
08-28-2014, 04:47 PM
I just watched this one for the first time. I'm shocked it wasn't aired in syndication so much considering it was never solved. :(

TheCars1986
08-29-2014, 09:48 AM
I just watched this one for the first time. I'm shocked it wasn't aired in syndication so much considering it was never solved. :(

I'm pretty sure this case was aired on the Lifetime reruns. Not a lot, but I do remember seeing it on Lifetime.

mikewho
10-04-2016, 01:02 AM
Has anyone seen any updates on the case? I dont remember seeing much talk about it. He worked at a convenience store in ohio i think it was duke and duchess or sonething like that. During a robbery he was shot and killed. The segment mentioned from the video footage the guy had a hump possibly from a ponytail tucked under but i always thought it was from a shirt or sweater.

This case was sad and it looked like brian complied with the robber so no reason to shoot him.

cdr369
10-07-2016, 08:31 PM
No updates. Here is a prior link: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-173786.html .

Arnold_OldSchool
03-18-2018, 03:40 AM
With the DNA, this one seems solvable. I figured the small town nature of the crime would have aided in the crime being resolved.

Poor guy died for maybe a few hundred bucks. :(

Usmysteriesmaniac
06-23-2018, 08:50 PM
This was a fairly rare case, which I have as well. Lifetime would also occasionally show it from time to time too. Some have speculated that Timothy McVeigh could have been the killer, as he was supposedly in the area at the time. Highly doubt it, but you just never know for certain though. My best guess is that the guy was just a small time petty criminal, and has probably been arrested for something else by now, or so I hope. It's too bad the customer who activated the gas pumps had to arrive at the exact wrong time, which freaked the robber/killer out, after things seemed to be in control before that, until all hell broke loose from that point. Chances are the guy just gets out of there with the cash as he probably intended if that didn't happen, and nothing more. And to think he was only a minute away from being caught, and was unfortunately lucky enough to escape just in the nick of time, until the cops arrived moments later, but still too late though.

Hot Jock
07-27-2022, 06:06 PM
I’m currently in the Akron, OH area for some work related things and drove by the exact location where this case took place yesterday. It’s right where SR OH-43 intersects with I-76. The Duchess Shoppe no longer exists but has been replaced by a Speedway gas station. There is a small access road that directly feeds into I-76 right behind the Speedway. I suspect that the shooter must have had a vehicle stashed somewhere along said access road. It would be very easy to have stayed hidden at 2:00 am in this area as there isn’t a lot of activity there late at night. The killer likely had less than a 60 second sprint to his car once he fled the crime scene. From there he likely had less than a 60 second drive to I-76. Once on the highway he could have gone anywhere. I-76 feeds into plenty of other major highways and runs east all the way to Philadelphia itself. The big thing in this case is that they have a blood sample from the killer which means they have his DNA. This seems like one of those cases where they will eventually get a familial DNA hit. It’s just a matter of when.

I’m surprised this one doesn’t get more discussion on here.

Usmysteriesmaniac
07-27-2022, 09:57 PM
Interesting. This was a kind of an under the radar segment, which is probably why not many talk about it compared to others. At least it makes sense as to how the killer was seemingly able to disappear into the night, and vanish without a trace before the police were able to arrive. I still have my doubts that it'll ever be solved, as much as I hope that will happen one day, someway, somehow.

James T
07-29-2022, 02:32 AM
One of those bizarre cases where another 30-60 seconds & the guy would have been gone with the cash. Just bad luck a customer drove in to fill up his tank at that time-or the guy would likely still be alive.

Always amazes me how slack those all night companies are & how little they care about their staff by having them work alone-especially at nighttime & don't see fit to provide a firearm for defence. Still going on now.

Usmysteriesmaniac
07-29-2022, 10:07 AM
I know, really. Same thing also happened with others featured on U.M., with Deborah Poe, Trudy Darby, and Eileen Mangold being a few examples which I can name off the top of my head. That along with other similar cases I remember seeing on America's Most Wanted back in the day as well. Some bigger cooperate places that are open late, if not 24/7 (who could at least afford it such as Wawa for example) have since taken precautions with requiring at least two employees be working at all times, while not allowing gas station attendants to carry a certain amount of cash on them past midnight or so. That along with mom & pop ones who don't allow customers to enter past a certain time period, while having bullet proof glass installed as well. Some convenient stores here and there will also go the extra mile by "paying" police to hang around in food/snacks, and beverages at night, to assure the safety of both their property, and employees too.

Rayroy
05-31-2026, 01:22 AM
If the blood the police found was indeed the killer's, the only reasons I can come up with that he was never found is that the case is buried somewhere and no one has checked the DNA, the blood somehow got lost, The killer died shortly/some time after, or the killer did not intend to kill anyone and possibly never committed a crime against after this. Never arrested and/or had his DNA collected might be more appropriate.

It's so sad. He was not scheduled to work that day and the customer showing up at that time. It all worked against him. All it took was 3 minutes.