‘Sheriff: A Memoir of a Lawman from Bloody Williamson County, Illinois’

Features the history of Harry Spiller from his time entering the Williamson County, IL Sheriff's Department. In February 1974, Sheriff Russell Oxford hired him as a radio dispatcher for the Sheriff's Department. From that time until March 1979 Spiller worked as a radio dispatcher, deputy sheriff, and Chief Deputy in the department. Spiller ran for Sheriff and on November 2, 1982 was elected as the 42nd Sheriff of Williamson County, Illinois. The rest is his story as he endured the times known as Bloody Vendetta to the updating of the telephone recording equipment and the presidential visit of President Ronald Reagan.