Frank Johnson

Frank Johnson Stewart Jr., a 42-year-old male conservation officer from the Montgomery area, spent Christmas Eve 1978 doing the kind of work that pulled him into lonely places at dangerous hours. Online memorial and law-enforcement accounts say he answered a report about three men hunting on private property without the owner’s permission in a rural, wooded part of Alabama. There, in the dark and isolation of that countryside, he confronted the group and began trying to issue citations. Before ...

Conservation Officer Frank Johnson Stewart, Jr.