RICHARD BERT FORDHAM
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Officer Rank: Correctional Officer
Memorial Panel: 33-E: 6
Department: Lee County, Illinois, S.D.
End of Watch: May 9, 1977
Cause: BEAT
Age: 39
Years of Service: 7
Description: Officer Fordham was beaten and strangled to death by two prisoners who were attempting to escape. The inmates were both convicted of murder and each received a 45-100 year sentence.
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