Donald "Don" Worden is a retired

Baltimore Police Department The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is the municipal police department of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Dating back to 1784, the BPD, consisting of 2,935 employees in 2020, is organized into nine districts covering of land and of waterway ...

detective who was featured in David Simon's non-fiction book about the homicide unit, '' Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' (1991) and provided the inspiration for the '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' television series character

Stanley Bolander Stanley 'Stan' Bolander is a fictional character in the American crime drama / police procedural '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. He is portrayed by Ned Beatty and appears in the first three seasons and the spinoff film '' Homicide: The Movie'' ...

, played by

Ned Beatty Ned Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor and comedian. In a career that spanned five decades, he appeared in more than 160 films. Throughout his career, Beatty gained a reputation for being "the busiest actor in ...

Biography

Worden, a native of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood, joined the

in 1962, and had worked in the department's Northwestern district before becoming a Homicide Detective. Nicknamed, "The Big Man",: "The Big Man sits…" he was a veteran member of Sergeant

Terry McLarney Terrence Patrick "Terry" McLarney is a lieutenant assigned to the Baltimore Police Department's Southwestern (8th) District. McLarney is best known as a longtime city detective, who from 2008 through 2011 was the commanding officer of Baltimore's ...

's Homicide squad working under Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario.

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