A 'kind-hearted' ND policeman was gunned down in a cold alley in 1963. Inside the hunt for his killers

Patrolman Frank Peterson was shot and killed by burglars of the Mint Bar in Rugby, North Dakota. His murder launched an intense manhunt, and later, memorials to a man who gave his life for his town.

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