For six years of it, across at least four men.

I have made my peace with that number in the sense that I have stopped throwing things about it.

Chief Dewey Ratliff pleaded to tampering with a governmental record, a state jail felony, and received two years.

He surrendered his peace officer license permanently.

He was fifty-nine and had been a police officer for thirty-one years and, by every account I have ever heard including from people who despise what he did, was an entirely decent small-town cop for twenty-nine of them.

Officer Wendell Pree was not charged with anything.