New book revisits Matfield Green trooper killing

Herington road to where the shootout took place. Courtesy of the Smoky Hill Museum; Salina Newspaper Archival Collection.
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A new true-crime book is bringing renewed attention to one of Chase County’s most serious law enforcement cases: the May 24, 1978, killing of Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Conroy O’Brien near the Matf…

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