Donald Worden

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|badgenumber = 145

|birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland

|nickname = The Big Man

|department = Baltimore Police Department

|service = United States

|serviceyears = 1962–99

|rank = Detective

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|laterwork = Former B.C.P.D. H.Q. Homicide Big Man Case

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Donald "Don" Worden is a retired Baltimore Police Department detective who was featured in David Simon's non-fiction book about the homicide unit, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991){{harvnb|Simon|2006}} and provided the inspiration for the Homicide: Life on the Street television series character Stanley Bolander, played by Ned Beatty.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

Biography

Worden, a native of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood,{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=29}}: "I'm just a poor, dumb white boy from Hampden, trying to make his way through this world and into the next." joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1962,{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=31}}: "the department had been his home since 1962." and had worked in the department's Northwestern district{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=31}}: "He had gone downtown after more than a decade in the Northwest district…" before becoming a Homicide Detective. Nicknamed, "The Big Man",{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=23}}: "The Big Man sits…" he was a veteran member of Sergeant Terry McLarney's Homicide squad working under Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario.

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book|last=Simon|first=David|date=2006|orig-year=1st. pub. Houghton Mifflin:1991|title=Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets|edition=4th|publisher=Owl Books|location=New York|isbn=0-8050-8075-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1}}

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