Bessemer Police Department, Alabama
End of Watch Wednesday, May 2, 1979
Add to My HeroesClifford T. Hill
Lieutenant Clifford Hill was killed when a package he was opening exploded. He was in the office of the newly elected public safety commissioner and was assisting the mayor's secretary.
An investigation revealed that the package contained a bomb intended for the new public safety commissioner. A former police officer who had purchased bomb making materials and had studied bomb making was tried and convicted for the murder, however, the suspect was later acquitted at a retrial in 1980.
Bio
- Age 48
- Tour Not available
- Badge Not available
Incident Details
- Cause Bomb
- Weapon Explosives; Bomb
- Offender Acquitted in retrial
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