In the late hours of an April night in 1981, the city of Columbia, Tennessee, lost a dedicated public servant. William Larry Whitwell, a 34-year-old male patrolman with the Columbia Police Department, was on duty, unaware that a routine traffic stop would tragically be his final act of service. He pulled over a vehicle for speeding through Woodland Park, a seemingly ordinary part of his nightly patrol.
The occupants of the vehicle, however, were not ordinary citizens. They had just commit
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