Buddy

A young cop on the Twin Falls police department. Where he came from I don't remember but he had a decent-looking wife who claimed to be a first cousin of a famous (and dead) famous person. The deceased famous person had been dead for two decades and was famous primarily to a dying (of old age) cult and the tabloids. Both were in their late twenties or early thirties. Later on she would try to cash in on her relationship to the dead famous person and scammed a lot of people out of a fair amount of money but eventually it caught up with her and she ended up broke but still trying to scam people.

John seemed a decent sort for a person who would be a small-town cop but you never know. He was a patrolman or whatever they were called and ran speed traps and investitgated accidents and 911 calls and such. One day he was taking a prisoner into the jail, the part where the cop takes the prisoner through a door and they close the door before opening the next door which opens into the cell block to let the prisoner be put into a cell. Cops aren't supposed to be carrying their weapons when they go in there but John had his stun gun. If they'd had tasers then he would probably have had that.

When the first door closed and the next one hadn't been opened the prisoner attacked John and wrestled him down and got his stun gun and went to shocking him with it. By the time they got in and separated them and secured the prisoner John was in bad shaped. Soiled himself and that's always embarrassing.

John quit right after and set up as a private investigator. The only thing I know about him after that is that a relative who was disabled due to an accident at work noticed him snooping around his house a lot. My relative was having some difficulties with this disability income and suspected that he was being watched to see if he would do anything physical that could get him disqualified.

John died some years later and I never heard why. At 53 he was old enough to have a heart attack or stroke but that would be unlikely. If it had been a suicide it would have been in the news. One never knows about such things. His wife continued her grifting with increasingly less success.