EMIL SKOGLUND
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Officer Rank: Conservation Officer
Memorial Panel: 47-E: 20
Department: Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources
End of Watch: September 29, 1926
Cause: SHOT
Age: 36
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Conservation Officers Skoglund and Arvid Erickson were on patrol when they were shot and killed by a man they had just arrested for hunting small game without a license. The suspect, who was an ex-convict, shot the officers with a .22 pistol. He then weighted their bodies down with bags of bricks and placed them in Marquette Harbor. He later confessed and the remains were retrieved.
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