On the morning of April 5, 1978, Deputy Sheriff Terry Thomas O’Connell, 32, was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Highway 30 near Cedar Hill in Jefferson County, Missouri. At about 10:55 AM, Deputy O’Connell stopped a vehicle for speeding and was writing a ticket when the driver, Jackie Lee Lindsey, produced a handgun and opened fire. Deputy O’Connell was pronounced dead at the scene. He had about ten years in law enforcement, previously served with the Fenton Police Department, and joined the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department the previous December.

He was a husband and father of two children. The shooting prompted a manhunt; a warrant was issued for Jackie Lee Lindsey, who was then 30 and had been a fugitive from an earlier felony sentence. After capture he was charged with capital murder, convicted of Deputy O’Connell’s killing, and sentenced to life in prison.

Was anyone in the area that morning who remembers seeing that vehicle or Jackie Lee Lindsey before the stop?