Trooper William Rae Kellems
Incident
While involved in a statewide search for two gunmen who had killed a Michigan state trooper, Trooper Kellems spotted the suspects driving through Scottsburg, Indiana. After observing the car, Kellems radioed the post, stating that he had stopped the car. As Trooper Kellems approached the suspects' car, two shots were fired out, fatally wounding him.
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Although I was still a child when my cousin, William Kellems, was murdered, I still remember him vividly. Shorty after he had joined the Indiana State Police, Bill and his wife Allice stopped by my parents home at about one o'clock in the morning. It was a warm night in Indianapolis and when Bill and Alice saw that were still up sitting on a our front porch, the stopped and chatted for a few minutes. When my Dad asked Bill what they were doing out so late at night, Bill replied "oh we just wanted to see how many State Police cars we could see". He was that excited about becoming a Indiana State Trooper.