In the late summer of 1950, a dedicated lawman, 42-year-old Chief Deputy Sheriff Ray A. Campbell of St. Francis County, Arkansas, found his life tragically cut short. The events that led to his untimely death began to unfold with a seemingly routine case of cattle theft. Two men, Aubrey Smith and Peter Dorsey, were taken into custody in Pulaski County on suspicion of stealing a cow and a calf. On the evening of August 3, 1950, Deputy Campbell and his partner, Deputy Otis Tatum, arrived in Little
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