Missing 54 years, slain Champaign officer's badge reclaimed
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Zane Ziegler, a retired Champaign police officer, was curious last month when a fellow exhibitor at a police memorabilia show said that he had a vintage badge from the department.
When Ziegler saw the star emblazoned with the number 80, “I about fell over,” he said.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette reported that it was the badge of Robert Tatman, a Champaign officer killed on duty with his own service revolver on Nov. 25, 1967. The case remains unsolved, and for 54 years, so was the question of where his badge went.
Ziegler bought the star from the other vendor at the National Police Collector's Show in St. Charles, Missouri, and has reclaimed it for Champaign, where he was an officer from 1975 to 2003 and remains the department's historian.
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