Oren Stuart Hindman served in the U.S. Navy.
Trooper Oren Hindman was stabbed to death by a suspect he had placed in his patrol car on Interstate 90, about a half mile from the Jackson Boulevard interchange in Spearfish. Trooper Hindman had arrested a woman for DUI near Spearfish and provided her boyfriend a ride around 11:30 p.m. During the trip, the woman's boyfriend stabbed Trooper Hindman in the throat from the backseat of the patrol car. Both subjects then fled on foot. Trooper Hindman drove himself to the hospital but died before surgeons arrived. The subject who stabbed him pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. He died in prison. Trooper Hindman was a U.S. Navy veteran and had served with the South Dakota Highway Patrol for 6-1/2 years.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Trooper Hindman gave the South Dakota Highway Patrol 6 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of South Dakota, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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