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Carlton Wayne Sudduth

Case from Livingston, AL dated Jun 21, 1980

Victim Details

Carlton Wayne Sudduth

Male

White / Caucasian

Livingston

AL

1980-06-21

42

Carlton

Wayne Sudduth

07/02/2026

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Carlton Wayne Sudduth, a 42-year-old male police officer with the Livingston University Police Department, was shot and killed on Saturday, June 21, 1980, in Livingston, Alabama. His death was the culmination of a series of events that began with an early morning robbery at a restaurant in the nearby town of Eutaw.

On that morning, Percy Leo Dobard and his female companion, Jeanette Kennedy, robbed O'Jim's Restaurant. After taking money from the waitress at gunpoint, the pair fled the sce ...
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