It didn’t take him long to find a friend in Greg Knighten, a local teen everyone called Sparky. He was handsome, slender, and had a youthful appearance. His job would entail going to the high school to pose as a student in order to gather intelligence about who may have been supplying the teens with drugs. And he got a chance to do that after he was recruited as a rookie with the Midlothian Police Department to train as an undercover cop, which Investigation Discovery’s Shadow of Doubt will dramatize. George Raffield wanted to be a part of the police movement to rid the city of drugs, especially in the high schools. And when they weren’t doing that, several of them were engaging in seedier activities such as taking drugs. Not far from Dallas, Texas, Midlothian didn’t offer much of anything to interest local teens back in the late 1980s, except a few hayrides and driving the back country roads in a friend’s pickup truck. It was then that he noticed Midlothian’s growing problem of drug addiction, especially among the teens. Starting out as a police dispatcher on the night shift, Raffield desired to make more of a difference in his life as a police officer. George William Raffield Jr.’s story begins innocently enough in Midlothian, Texas, in 1987. Today, according to Dallas News, Greg Knighten is much older and says he can’t believe that he was that “type of person.” For killing an officer in the line of duty, 16-year-old Greg Knighten was convicted and sent to prison. Family members and friends may also make an appearance. In the episode “Midlothian Jump Street,” expect to listen as law enforcement investigators give their commentary on the case. Investigation Discovery’s successful crime show will review how a dedicated rookie cop, desiring to make a difference, went undercover but was killed after rumors swept through the community that he was really an undercover cop. George Raffield, the rookie undercover cop and hero who was gunned down and left in a vacant field three decades ago, will have his story aired on Shadow of Doubt.
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