Frank Johnson Stewart Jr., a 42-year-old male conservation officer from the Montgomery area, spent Christmas Eve 1978 doing the kind of work that pulled him into lonely places at dangerous hours. Online memorial and law-enforcement accounts say he answered a report about three men hunting on private property without the owner’s permission in a rural, wooded part of Alabama. There, in the dark and isolation of that countryside, he confronted the group and began trying to issue citations. Before
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