Trooper
Larry V. Crabtree
December 3 , 1933 - April 4 , 1977
Badge #294
Joined in 1964
Turner Turnpike that a vehicle had jumped a curb and crossed a barrow ditch to reach
the turnpike instead of using the entrance ramp. Trooper Crabtree stopped the vehicle at mile fifty-eight and as he approached the vehicle the sixteen year-old driver turned in the seat and fired one shotgun blast at point-blank range.
Citizen Band radio equipped motorists who witnessed the murder alerted Troopers who
arrested the five occupants of the vehicle at mile forty-four.
Three juveniles were later released to the custody of their parents. A sixteen year-old boy was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to death.