CLEMMIE E CURTIS

Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 61-E: 16
Department: Huntington, West Virginia, P.D.
End of Watch: August 3, 1976
Cause: SHOT
Age: 30
Years of Service: 9
Description: Patrolman Curtis' body was found handcuffed near his patrol car in a wooded area just outside of the Huntington city limit. He had been shot through the chest once. In January of 1985 one of America's worst serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas, on death row in Texas confessed that he and his partner Ottis Toole, on death row in Florida, had killed Patrolman Curtis.
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