Clemmie E. Curtis

Huntington Police Department — Huntington, WV

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch August 3, 1976

Age 30

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 7

Incident

Patrolman Clemmie Curtis was shot and killed in the 1700 block of Ritter Boulevard after being placed in his own handcuffs. His body was found near his patrol car in the isolated area known as a lover's lane. In January of 1985, one of America's worst serial killers on death row in Texas confessed that he and his partner-in-crime, a man on death row in Florida, had killed Patrolman Curtis. The inmate died in a Texas prison in March of 2001. The inmate in Florida was the prime suspect in the death of Adam Walsh, the son of John Walsh who later created the television show America's Most Wanted. Authorities were still investigating the murder when the suspect died of cirrhosis of the liver while still incarcerated in September 1996. Patrolman Curtis was a United States Army veteran of the Vietnam War and had served with the Huntington Police Department for nine years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Curtis gave the Huntington Police Department 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntington community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Huntington Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Huntington, Cabell County, WV

Platform Identity hpd.cabell.wv.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 3, 1976

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

Age 30

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Clemmie E. Curtis served in the U.S. Army (1968â1970) before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Clemmie E. Curtis is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In WV, 169 of 232 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 72.8% of this state's fallen. That is 72.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Huntington Police Department, 6 of 8 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 75% of this agency's fallen.

Huntington Police Department

of 8 officers

75% Felonious

WV — Statewide

169

of 232 officers

72.8% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious