On his birthday in 1971, Wisconsin game warden Neil LaFave went out to post “No Hunting” signs.
He never came home.
The next morning, searchers found his body buried in a shallow grave. The brutality stunned investigators: multiple gunshots, and a horrifying attempt to conceal the crime.
Suspicion quickly centered on a young poacher with a history of conflict with LaFave. But proving it would take something new: one of the first wiretaps ever used in a Wisconsin murder case.
What followed was a breakthrough that changed the investigation, and revealed just how far someone was willing to go to avoid getting caught.
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