Please join us in remembering Correctional Officer Albert J Cox whose life was taken in the line of duty 37 years ago today. === Correctional Officer Cox, 47, was a supervisor at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary’s chicken farm on the prison grounds in McAlester. At about 12:40 PM on Saturday, March 5, 1977, Officer Cox and an inmate trustee were discovered missing. At 4:45 PM that same day, Cox’s body was found in a chicken coop. He had suffered multiple stab wounds and his throat was slashed. The trustee had taken Cox’s prison pickup and drove 80 miles southwest to the Washita River near Tishomingo, where he kidnapped a farmer and his young son. A short time later, he released them unharmed and took their car. The inmate was tracked to Florida but never found. Officer Cox left behind a wife and two children.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:34:50 +0000
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