The Death of 17-year-old Robert Sheldon

On October 8^th 1965, a 17-year-old boy was murdered in Central Park. Robert (Bob) Sheldon’s dead body was found lying in a pool of blood at 5am. A woman was taking a walk through the park and discovered the bloody corpse, she dialed 911 right away.

Sheldon’s friends were there during the homicide, but decided not to call the police because they were drunk and they were scared after seeing him dead. According to them, the murderer was a 16-year-old boy named Johnny Cade.

Sheldon and his friends were driving around town at about 3-4am, while they were drunk, and saw Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade walking in Central Park. Sheldon was angry at them for watching a movie with his girlfriend (Sherri Valance) and went towards them. When he got close to them, he grabbed Ponyboy’s head, stuffed it into the fountain and tried to drown him.

Cade watched his best friend, Curtis, being drowned and pulled out a knife and stabbed Sheldon. Sheldon fell to the ground and Ponyboy lifted his head from the fountain. Randy Adderson, Roberts’s friend, said that that was the last thing him and his friends saw because they ran away and drove home.

Police showed up at 5:13am and investigated the scene. Cade and Curtis were nowhere to be found and Curtis’s older brother also called police and reported him missing. Detectives and search parties searched the whole town, but the boys were still missing.

Where did Curtis and Cade go?  Are they hiding from authorities? Did Robert’s friends catch up with them and do something to them? We do not know yet, but we will surely find out.