Charlie Mills was in Buzzy’s Country Store the other day and presented me with a hat from when he was in the Navy. He said he served all 4 years of his time in the Navy aboard the USS Smalley. When he got out of the Navy, he became a Maryland State Policeman.
As we chatted I asked Charlie what was the worst accident he ever responded to during his time with the State Police. He said that the Rossignol one in 1975 at St. Mary’s City sticks out in his mind as a particularly bad one.
He noted how he and his partners were called to the scene early that Sunday morning. They saw the mangled up car and then as they walked through the marshland saw the 3 bodies scattered in the marsh. He said it was a very bad scene all the way around.
I found this front page article from the March 13, 1975 Enterprise.
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Here’s Bob about as depressing as it gets. Even so, he still makes it worth listening to just to hear lines like “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain,” “I ain’t looking for nothin in anyone’s eyes,” and “I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from.”