In the late autumn of 1985, a veteran law enforcement officer's life was tragically cut short following a violent tavern robbery in Newark, New Jersey. Detective Robert E. Walls, a 54-year-old male, had dedicated 27 years of his life to the Essex County Sheriff's Department. On the evening of November 26, 1985, he was off-duty at the V & J Tavern on Seventh Street, accompanied by a colleague, Sergeant Nathaniel Taylor. The relative peace of the establishment was shattered when three masked indiv
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