Christopher Todd Horner was a 35-year-old Haines City police officer who was killed on March 3, 1998 while on duty. At about 6:40 am he radioed in a description of a suspicious vehicle in a cemetery but did not answer further radio traffic. Officers who arrived found him beside his patrol car with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators say Horner encountered a group of men who had robbed a hotel earlier that night and were planning a bank robbery. The case remained unsolved for five years until a jailhouse confession led to the identification and arrest of several suspects. One man who confessed was sentenced to life plus 107 years, later reduced to 15 years in exchange for his cooperation in testifying. The shooter received a sentence of life plus 10 years, though his murder conviction was later vacated; prosecutors chose not to retry him for murder and he faces resentencing on a firearms conviction.

Horner is survived by his wife and six children. Does anyone have information about the robbery crew or their movements in Haines City that night?