On the evening of Saturday, April 3, 1999, a young Indiana State Trooper named Cory Elson was on patrol in the city of Decatur. At the age of 26, he had recently graduated from the police academy and was just under four months into his career with the Fort Wayne post. That night, he initiated a traffic stop for a pickup truck with a non-working taillight in the parking lot of an auto parts store on North 13th Street.
As Trooper Elson was getting out of his patrol car, the driver of the tr
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