In the autumn of 1984, the life of New York State Police Investigator Richard Benjamin Snyder was cut short in a tragic and violent ambush. Investigator Snyder, a decade-long veteran of the state police and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, was conducting an investigation in Mamakating when he was killed.
On the evening of his death, Investigator Snyder arrived at a residence on Corn Field Road after 8:00 p.m. There, he was ambushed by a man he had previously arrested. The i
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