National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Officer Rank: Corrections Employee

Memorial Panel: 9-E: 2

Department: Oklahoma Department of Corrections

End of Watch: March 5, 1977

Cause: NIFE

Age: 46

Years of Service: 1

Description: Albert Cox and an inmate were discovered missing from the state prison. Later that afternoon Mr. Cox's body was found in a chicken coop on the prison farm hidden under feed sacks. His throat had been slashed, and he had multiple stab wounds from a homemade knife. The pick-up truck that Mr. Cox had left in that morning to make his rounds was missing. It was located abandoned in Johnston County. The inmate was not found.