On a September day in 1982, a tense situation unfolded that would end in tragedy. Derald Coghlan had abducted a woman and her three children in Franklin County, Mississippi, and fled into neighboring Lincoln County. Law enforcement officers from the Mississippi Highway Patrol quickly set up roadblocks to intercept the fugitive and rescue the hostages. The vehicle carrying Coghlan and his captives was stopped at a roadblock on Jackson Liberty Drive at Bogue Chitto Road.
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