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Roy Dean Ratliff
United States · Aged 37 · Died 08/01/2002
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Roy Dean Ratliff abducted two teenage girls in Lancaster, prompting the first use of an Amber Alert in California, and took them to Kern County, where deputies Jim Stratton and Larry Thatcher shot Ratliff and rescued the girls.
Alleged responsible partyKern County Sheriff's OfficeReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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