{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox police officer |name = Donald Worden |image = |caption = |birth_date = |badge_number = 145 |birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland |nickname = The Big Man |department = Baltimore Police Department |service = United States |service_years = 1962–99 |rank = Detective |awards = |relatives = |other_work = Former B.C.P.D. H.Q. Homicide Big Man Case }} '''Donald "Don" Worden''' is a retired Baltimore Police Department detective who was featured in David Simon's non-fiction book about the homicide unit, ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets'' (1991)<ref>{{harvnb|Simon|2006}}</ref> and provided the inspiration for the ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' television series character Stanley Bolander, played by Ned Beatty.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}
==Biography== Worden, a native of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood,<ref>{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=29}}: "I'm just a poor, dumb white boy from Hampden, trying to make his way through this world and into the next."</ref> joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1962,<ref>{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=31}}: "the department had been his home since 1962."</ref> and had worked in the department's Northwestern district<ref>{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=31}}: "He had gone downtown after more than a decade in the Northwest district…"</ref> before becoming a Homicide Detective. Nicknamed, "The Big Man",<ref>{{harvnb|Simon|2006|p=23}}: "The Big Man sits…"</ref> he was a veteran member of Sergeant Terry McLarney's Homicide squad working under Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario.
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book|last=Simon|first=David|date=2006|orig-year=1st. pub. Houghton Mifflin:1991|title=Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets|edition=4th|publisher=Owl Books|location=New York|isbn=0-8050-8075-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1}}
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