Donald Worden Explained

Donald Worden
Badgenumber:145
Birth Place:Baltimore, Maryland
Nickname:The Big Man
Department:Baltimore Police Department
Service:United States
Serviceyears:1962–99
Rank:Detective
Laterwork:Former B.C.P.D. H.Q. Homicide Big Man Case

Donald "Don" Worden is a retired Baltimore Police Department detective who was featured in David Simon's non-fiction book about the homicide unit, (1991) and provided the inspiration for the television series character Stanley Bolander, played by Ned Beatty.

Biography

Worden, a native of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood,[1] joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1962,[2] and had worked in the department's Northwestern district[3] before becoming a Homicide Detective. Nicknamed, "The Big Man",[4] he was a veteran member of Sergeant Terry McLarney's Homicide squad working under Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario.

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Notes and References

  1. "I'm just a poor, dumb white boy from Hampden, trying to make his way through this world and into the next."

  2. "the department had been his home since 1962."

  3. "He had gone downtown after more than a decade in the Northwest district…"

  4. "The Big Man sits…"

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