Clemmie E. Curtis

End of Watch: August 3, 1976

Bio & Incident Details:

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.

Lucas died in prison in March of 2001. Police were still investigating the murder when Toole died of cirrhosis of the liver in prison in September of 1996.

Patrolman Curtis had been with the agency for nine years.

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End of Watch: June 27, 1876

Oscar M. Christian

End of Watch: April 19, 1914

Charles E. Ball

End of Watch: November 10, 1923

Charles F. Bricker

End of Watch: January 7, 1940

Paul J. Harmon

End of Watch: December 14, 1981

James W. Mills

End of Watch: December 15, 1981