Ashland officer authors book about cops who kill

WARREN

With her husband, father and three uncles all current or former police officers in the Mansfield area, Stacy Dittrich has police work in her blood.

Her own law-enforcement career started as a dispatcher. She became a police officer in Ashland, Ohio, then returned to Mansfield as a Richland County deputy sheriff.

But that doesn’t mean the 17-year police veteran is able to see only the good side of police work.

In the book “Murder Behind the Badge. True Stories of Cops Who Kill,” which was published last year, she describes the murders committed by 18 police officers dating back to 1912, including Bobbie Cutts Jr., the former Canton police officer whose murder of his girlfriend in 2007 inspired the book.

Dittrich talked about the book during a presentation at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library on Thursday.

For details of her talk, read Friday's Vindicator or Vindy.com.