Bill Faus Jr., 37, died August 26, 2002 at 7:40 a.m. at home, five months after he was diagnosed with cancer. Less than a year before his death, Bill Jr. had become a master trainer for the North American Police Work Dog Association, joining his father to become the only father-son master trainers in the United States. Bill Jr. joined the Elkhart Police Department in 1987 and in his earlier years as a boy he was in the cadet program. He later followed his father’s lead into the department’s K-9 Unit and a division he was in charge of at the time of his death. Officer Faus’s K9 partner was “King”. His father,
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