Twenty-five years ago on the morning of November 16, 1987, four men -- David Hudson, Peter Martin, Robert Carpenter and Billy Wayne Smith -- made their way through East Liverpool seeking to fulfill a racist vendetta.

After two hours of searching they decided to take out their rage and hatred on an unsuspecting Kevin Burks, a man three of them had never met.

To this day Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla remembers every little detail of the case.

"They travel to Kevin Burks' house, knocked on the door about three in the morning, and his grandma comes to the door and they told her that they had to see Burks cause a friend of his was seriously injured," Sheriff Abdalla said. "She gets Burks and they're telling him this story and she is saying, 'Please Kevin honey don't go. Don't go.'"

After leaving the home Burks spent the next several minutes on a horrifying drive to northern Jefferson County.

"Before they got to the actual crime scene itself they started stabbing Burks," Sheriff Abdalla said.

The ride ended in Brush Creek Township, but the torture of Burks didn't end in that car. The four men then put Burks through a gruesome series of events.

"They kidnapped him, they beat him, they tortured him, they stabbed him, they shot him," Sheriff Abdalla said. "I've been involved in approximately 47 murder cases in Jefferson County which are solved, but that one was the most heartbreaking."

When it was over the men left and discarded Burks' body on an embankment.

"The whole case is heartbreaking in itself, what they did to this boy, I mean, you don't do that to an animal," said Sheriff Abdalla.

But it would take some time for anyone to find Burks, 11 agonizing days for his family, especially his two surviving twin sisters.

"I thought he would come back. I just didn't want to think that he would be taken away from us the way that he was but, he never came back," said Jacqueline Hicks.