Edward “Red” Phillips, a 38-year-old White male deputy sheriff, was drawn into a desperate manhunt that tore across southwest Wyoming on March 4, 1955, and ended with his death in Green River the next day. Public historical accounts describe the violence as part of a 16-hour crime spree by Charles Billings, a drifter who had already burglarized a business in Kemmerer, murdered auto dealer Albert Maffei, wounded Kemmerer Town Marshal Frank Kulinsky and station owner Don Wagner, then kidnapped
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