Benjamin Oliver Booth

Missouri State Highway Patrol — Jefferson City, MO

Felonious

End of Watch June 14, 1933

Age 37

Badge 13

The Vigil Panel 66 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 32

Incident

Sergeant Benjamin Booth and Sheriff Roger Wilson, of the Boone County Sheriff's Office, were shot and killed at the intersection of Highway 40 and Highway 63 following a bank robbery that had occurred in Mexico, Missouri. The officers were stopping cars at the intersection to ask motorists if they had seen the suspect vehicle. They stopped a car unrelated to the robbery when the two occupants exited and opened fire on them. A 17-month investigation by law enforcement officials followed and both suspects were apprehended. Both were convicted of the murders. One was sentenced to life in prison while the other was sentenced to death and subsequently executed on December 18th, 1936. Neither suspect had been involved in original the bank robbery, and it was never determined why they killed Sergeant Booth and Sheriff Wilson. Sergeant Booth was survived by his wife, a seven-year-old daughter, and an eight-year-old son. He is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri.

Survivors

Sergeant Booth was survived by his wife, a seven-year-old daughter, and an eight-year-old son.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Sergeant Booth served with the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Thank you for your service to the people of Missouri. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Booth.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Missouri State Highway Patrol

Location Jefferson City, MO

Platform Identity mshp.mo.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 14, 1933

Age 37

Badge Number 13

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender Executed

Sergeant Benjamin Oliver Booth is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MO, 516 of 813 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63.5% of this state's fallen. That is 9.3 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Missouri State Highway Patrol, 13 of 33 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 39.4% of this agency's fallen.

Missouri State Highway Patrol

of 33 officers

39.4% Felonious

MO — Statewide

516

of 813 officers

63.5% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious