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Roger Burdette is charged with killing Mengedoht on Christmas Eve 2018. 

Two years after Louisville Metro Police Detective Deidre Mengedoht was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 64, she was remembered in a virtual graveside ceremony.

The multimillion dollar settlement was reached Saturday in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Louisville Metro Police detective who was killed when a Metropolitan Sewer District truck crashed into her police car during a traffic stop.