Sylvester Bud Rearden

Death by Force

Sylvester “Bud” Rearden, a 36-year-old white man, was living in the small community of Fairdale, near Louisville, Kentucky, when his life came to an abrupt and deeply questioned end on September 8, 1974. Officially, his death was attributed to cancer, the culmination of a serious illness that had already put him in and out of the hospital. Those who knew the story later, however, would come to see his death not as an isolated tragedy, but as one chapter in a disturbing pattern of “accident ...Read More

Sylvester Graham “Bud” Rearden Sr. (1938-1974) - Find a Grave