In the cold, high desert of northern Arizona, the final hours of 1988 bled into a new year marked by violence and loss. On New Year's Eve, Navajo County Deputy Sheriff Robert William Varner, Jr., a 51-year-old man, was on patrol along Interstate 40. His shift took a fatal turn when he initiated a traffic stop involving a stolen vehicle with stolen license plates. The occupants of the vehicle, two men on a multi-state crime spree, responded with deadly force, shooting Deputy Varner.
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