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Sydney Carter Snow Jr.

Case from Milwaukee, WI dated Jan 30, 1982

Victim Details

Sydney Carter Snow, Jr.

Male

White / Caucasian

Milwaukee

WI

1982-01-30

29

Sydney

Carter Snow Jr.

09/25/2026

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Sydney Carter Snow Jr., a 29-year-old White male, was a Milwaukee Police Department officer who was killed in the line of duty on January 30, 1982. Snow had served with the department for approximately six years after being appointed in October 1975. On the night of his death, he and fellow Officer James L. Zastrow were working in plainclothes on what Milwaukee police described as the tavern car, an assignment that involved checking licenses at neighborhood taverns and other businesses.

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