Donald Worden

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)^[1] and provided the inspiration for the Homicide: Life on the Street television series character Stanley Bolander, played by Ned Beatty.^{[citation needed]}

Donald Worden
Born	Baltimore, Maryland
Other names	The Big Man
Police career
Country	United States
Department	Baltimore Police Department
Service years	1962–99
Rank	Detective
Badge no.	145
Other work	Former B.C.P.D. H.Q. Homicide Big Man Case

Biography

Worden, a native of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood,^[2] joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1962,^[3] and had worked in the department's Northwestern district^[4] before becoming a Homicide Detective. Nicknamed, "The Big Man",^[5] he was a veteran member of Sergeant Terry McLarney's Homicide squad working under Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario.