George Edward McMurren was a 43-year-old deputy with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office when he was killed on June 24, 1973, while investigating cattle rustling near Bagdad, Arizona. A former Philadelphia Police Department officer and a U.S. Army paratrooper who served during the Korean War, he had been with Yavapai County for six months.

Deputy McMurren was on a hill using his flashlight to illuminate where he believed suspects were located. A 28-year-old former Marine Corps sharpshooter fired a rifle at the light, the bullet struck McMurren in the chest, and he died at the scene. The shooter was apprehended, convicted of McMurren’s murder, and sentenced to life in prison. McMurren left behind a wife, six children and one grandchild.

Did anyone in Bagdad or the surrounding area know Deputy McMurren or have details about the rustling investigation that night?