Dean Allen Goodheart

Kansas Highway Patrol — Topeka, KS

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch September 6, 1995

Age 49

Tour of Duty 23 yrs

Badge 377

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 10

Incident

Trooper Dean Goodheart was killed after being struck by a car on I-70, near Oakley, while performing a routine safety inspection. On May 16, 2000, a bill known as the Goodheart Law requiring drivers on multi-lane roads to slow down or move over was signed into law by the Kansas governor. Trooper Goodheart had served with the Kansas Highway Patrol for 23 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, daughter, two sons, mother, and three brothers.

In Our Keeping

Permanent identifier: BO-US-KS-873B56C9
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Added to badge.nw: August 2, 2026
Last updated: August 2, 2026

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Tributes

23 years. You could have gone home.
Master Trooper Goodheart gave the Kansas Highway Patrol 23 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the people of Kansas. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Master Trooper Goodheart.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Kansas Highway Patrol

Type Highway Patrol

Location Topeka, KS

Platform Identity khp.ks.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 6, 1995

Tour of Duty 23 yrs

Age 49

Badge Number 377

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Dean Allen Goodheart served in the U.S. Army (1966â1966) before joining law enforcement.

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Master Trooper Dean Allen Goodheart is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In KS, 66 of 335 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 19.7% of this state's fallen. That is 19.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Kansas Highway Patrol, 5 of 11 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 45.5% of this agency's fallen.

Kansas Highway Patrol

of 11 officers

45.5% Accident

KS — Statewide

of 335 officers

19.7% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Accident