Wayne Overson was born and raised in the vicinity of Delta, Utah. After high school he enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years. He was a member of the Utah Highway Patrol (UHP), ...view moreWayne Overson was born and raised in the vicinity of Delta, Utah. After high school he enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years. He was a member of the Utah Highway Patrol (UHP), primarily assigned in Davis County, Utah, from September 1964 to September 1970. He then resigned to become a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at earned a Ph.D. degree from The Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. He retired from the university in 1997.view less