Mark Radden

In the waning hours of a winter day in Detroit, Michigan, a tragic series of events unfolded that would claim the life of a young police officer. Mark Radden, a 24-year-old male who had only been with the department for three months, was fatally shot on February 5, 1986, in a case of mistaken identity that exposed the perilous nature of undercover police work.

That evening, two separate groups of plainclothes officers from the Detroit Police Department converged on the same location, a ho ...