Virginia State Trooper Leo Whitt, a 48-year-old male, was a twenty-year veteran of the force, a husband, and a father to a son and daughter. On the night of Friday, April 12, 1985, his life was cut short during what began as a routine traffic stop on Interstate 95 in Prince George County. The man he pulled over had a violent recent past and a desperate desire to escape.
Earlier that day, the suspect had escaped from a drug treatment facility in Maryland, where he was committed after ten f
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