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Sunday, July 06, 2008 --- 45 days ago http://www.lenconnect.com/news/x2113792227/Detective-closes-book-on-career
 At the end of June, Lenawee County detective Robert Wolverton closed the file on a justice-oriented career spanning 39 years and involving thousands of criminal cases. The 62-year-old Onsted resident joined the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy and patrol officer in March 1969. Former Sheriff Richard Germond said Thursday he remembers the day Wolverton came to the department to apply for the job. “He was one of few who came in to apply for a job wearing a shirt, tie and jacket,” Germond said. “He was professional from the first day.” The retired sheriff said Wolverton did “an absolutely fabulous investigation job” for Lenawee County. “I wouldn’t want him on my trail,” Germond said as he laughed. “The department and the county will miss him tremendously,” he said. In December 1978, Wolverton traded his deputy uniform for an opportunity to pursue what he wanted to do most: detective work. He said he handled many of Lenawee County’s headline abduction cases and violent crimes, as well as hundreds of death investigations. The job of solving criminal acts and bringing offenders to justice was fulfilling, he said. Wolverton called all his investigations a team effort, and said he worked with “a lot of good people” over the years. “I was particularly fortunate to have trained with top professionals,” Wolverton said, crediting state forensic anthropologist Norman Sauer and forensic scientist and criminologist Henry Lee among ... |
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