In the pre-dawn hours of May 31, 1981, a 34-year-old White/Caucasian male named Kenneth Bateman, a seven-year veteran of the Darien Police Department, responded to a burglar alarm at the Duchess Patio Restaurant. What began as a routine call quickly escalated into a fatal encounter that would leave a lasting scar on the community and the state's law enforcement. The investigation into his death remains the only unsolved killing of a police officer in Connecticut's history.
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