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'Live like Madelynn' | Family of Madelynn Troutt marks grim anniversary with memorial
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'Live like Madelynn' | Family of Madelynn Troutt marks grim anniversary with memorial

  • Updated Mar 1, 2024

Madelynn Troutt was a senior at Butler High School. She loved cheerleading, was a friend to every person she came in contact with, and planned to study nursing at Bellarmine after graduation.

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1st recipient of Madelynn Troutt scholarship vows to honor late Butler High School senior
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1st recipient of Madelynn Troutt scholarship vows to honor late Butler High School senior

  • Darby Beane
  • Updated Jun 12, 2023

More than two years after a Louisville teenager was killed in a crash on Dixie Highway, her family came together to see her dreams live on.

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Troutt family remembering daughter 2 years after fatal crash on Dixie Highway
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Troutt family remembering daughter 2 years after fatal crash on Dixie Highway

  • Updated Mar 1, 2023

Madelynn Troutt's family is making it their mission to carry on her legacy.

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Louisville Bar Association holds panel on bill that would ban charitable bail
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Louisville Bar Association holds panel on bill that would ban charitable bail

  • Updated Mar 29, 2022

The bill also would prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse.

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Family of Butler HS cheerleader killed in crash files lawsuit against The Bail Project
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Family of Butler HS cheerleader killed in crash files lawsuit against The Bail Project

  • Updated Feb 25, 2022

The family argues that if The Bail Project had not paid Michael Dewitt's bond days earlier, Madelynn Troutt would not have died.

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Grand jury indicts Louisville man in carjacking that led to crash killing Butler High cheerleader
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Grand jury indicts Louisville man in carjacking that led to crash killing Butler High cheerleader

  • Updated Oct 21, 2021

Michael Dewitt was indicted in April by a federal grand jury on charges of murder, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants and failure to stop and render aid in connection with the Dixie Highway crash that killed 17-year-old Madelynn Troutt.

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Grand jury indicts Louisville man charged with murder of 17-year-old girl on Dixie Highway
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Grand jury indicts Louisville man charged with murder of 17-year-old girl on Dixie Highway

  • Updated Apr 24, 2021

That crash killed 17-year-old Madelynn Troutt. 

Mother of Butler cheerleader killed in Dixie Highway crash thanks community
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Mother of Butler cheerleader killed in Dixie Highway crash thanks community

  • Updated Mar 16, 2021

Madelynn Troutt, 17, was killed March 1, when her car was hit head-on near St. Andrews Church Road by a stolen truck.

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'A hole in everybody's heart' | Vigil honors teen killed in Dixie Highway crash
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'A hole in everybody's heart' | Vigil honors teen killed in Dixie Highway crash

  • Joel Schipper
  • Updated Mar 3, 2021

Madelynn Troutt was only a couple months away from graduating from Butler High School and had goals of becoming a nurse.

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