State Trooper Solves Murder During Routine Traffic Stop

I do a lot of criticizing the police.  So I also like to take the time to point out when they do a fantastic job, like Trooper Nielson of the Louisiana State Police.

He pulled the young man over for speeding, 73 in a 55.

The driver:

• Had no license at all
• No insurance
• It wasn't his car
• Had a roach in the ashtray

The trooper noticed that there were bullet holes in the driver's side of the vehicle.  So he investigated to make sure that this person had permission to be in the vehicle at all.  He still couldn't positively identify him, because he had no license or ID.

The driver also couldn't give his home address, or say exactly where he was going, an automatic red flag for the police.

Trooper Nielson investigated further, to make sure that this vehicle wasn't wanted in any local incidents.  He discovered that the vehicle's owner had been reported missing.  The driver claimed this person had given him permission to drive it.

Meanwhile some random person drives up and says that people in Monroe, another city, are looking for that car and its driver.  He hands Trooper Nielson a phone.  The local sheriffs arrive at some point to assist.

Trooper Nielson follows this investigation step-by-step, eventually popping the trunk to discover the body of Michael, the vehicle's owner.

The driver had been driving around with the dead body in the trunk, speeding, with no license, driver's side all shot up, and smoking weed.  That's more of a cry for help, I think.  He was only missing one of those sovereign citizen homemade license plates.

But that was great work by this police officer all the way throughout.  Terrible tragedy for the victim in this case.  And I can't imagine what the murderer was thinking, honest to God.  What a waste of life all the way around.