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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: Real Stories Of The Texas Highway Patrol
Description:
The men and women of the Texas Highway Patrol work alone, often at night, on remote stretches of highway.
They drive distinctive black and white cruisers and SUVs with bright gold emblems in the shape of Texas on the side doors.
Help might be a hundred miles away if a traffic stop turns bad.
For example, in 2021, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Chad Walker was killed in an ambush.
Walker stopped to help a driver in a disabled vehicle.Â
The driver jumped out of the car armed with a...