The 1971 was a different time. A VP at Bell Labs is minding his own business, having a few drinks at a bar, next thing you know they're pulling his body out of his burned Volvo. Two guys he was drinking with get charged with murder. Why did they do it? Why didn't they just shake him down for money, but felt the need to burn him and his car also? We may never know, because no one at the time was interested enough to ask I guess. But it did happen in New Jersey, so perhaps people had bigger things to worry about.