The "Trinity murders" (so named for the high school attended by the victims) occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 29, 1984, when Victor Dewayne Taylor and George Ellis Wade kidnapped and murdered two 17-year-old Trinity High School students, Scott Christopher Nelson and Richard David Stephenson.
[1] On September 29, 1984, Scott Nelson and Richard David Stephenson were headed to a Trinity High School football game at Manual High School football stadium on East Burnett Avenue in the Schnitzelburg neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, when they became lost.
[2] The pair stopped at a Moby Dick restaurant located at the intersection of Logan & Oak Street to get directions, where Victor Taylor and his cousin George Wade said they would lead them to the stadium in exchange for a ride.
[2] Nelson and Stephenson were instead taken to a vacant lot in the 300 block of Ardella Ct. near the football stadium of Louisville Male High School where they were forced to take off their clothes, hand over their personal property, and were bound and gagged.
The widely publicized murders led to the suspects when a relative who had been given a Trinity High school jacket reported George Wade to the police.