On a November night in 1976, Virginia State Trooper Garland West Fisher Jr., a 33-year-old White male, was nearing the end of his shift. As he patrolled Interstate 85 south of Petersburg, Virginia, he spotted a vehicle heading the wrong way and pulled it over. This routine traffic stop would tragically be his last. The driver, 32-year-old Reuben S. Conley, was wanted for a prior kidnapping, a fact unknown to Trooper Fisher at the time. During the encounter, Conley managed to overpower the troope
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