Steven Roy Smith, a 43-year-old White male Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper from the Grove area, answered a call on April 25, 1999, that began as someone else’s murder case and quietly became his own. That evening, Trooper Eddie Rose and officers from the Grove Police Department had been dispatched to a rural cemetery near Bernice, Oklahoma, where the body of a woman—later identified as the suspect’s wife—had been found. As they began securing the scene, an armed man appeared among the he
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