Trooper Down! (37 page)

22-23. A state patrol helicopter pinpoints Billy McQueen (above) before lawmen use ropes to drag him out of the Pigeon River Gorge (next page).
Bob Scott
, Asheville Citizen-Times

24. Billy Denton McQueen, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, is led away in handcuffs from Haywood County Superior Court where he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Trooper Giles Harmon.
Ewart Ball
, Asheville Citizen-Times

25. Timothy Allen, charged with first degree murder in the death of Trooper Ray Worley. He later received the death penalty for his crime.
Pat Eager
, Daily Herald,
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina

26. Trooper Raymond Worley.
North Carolina Highway Patrol

27. Trooper Bobby Coggins. 
North Carolina Highway Patrol

28. Fall Festival 1985 at the Spring Creek Fire Department. Trooper Coggins eats ice cream with “clown” and Sgt. Zeb Phillips. Only two weeks later, Phillips would direct the manhunt for Coggins's slayers from this fire station.

29. In a final salute, highway patrolmen carry the casket of fellow officer Bobby Coggins from the First Baptist Church in Bryson City. 
Bob Scott
, Asheville Citizen-Times

30. Linda Justice (center) and Coggins's mother, Frances (left), at the gravesite as Coggins is buried.
Bob Scott
, Asheville Citizen-Times

31-32. Jimmy Dean Rios (above) and William Bray (next page), convicted of first degree murder in the death of Bobby Coggins. News Record,
Madison County, North Carolina

33. Public Safety and Department of Correction officials huddle over maps in a strategy session during the manhunt for Rios and Bray.
Bob Scott
, Asheville Citizen-Times

34. During the Rios-Bray manhunt, officers check vehicles at roadblocks and warn occupants to stay inside their cars and avoid picking up strangers.
Bob Scott
, Asheville Citizen-Times