Earl F. DeMarse

Michigan Department of Corrections — Lansing, MI

Veteran → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch September 25, 1973

Age 55

Tour of Duty 26 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 14

Incident

Correctional Officer Earl DeMarse was stabbed to death by an inmate at the Marquette Branch Prison. The stabbing took place only 15 minutes into his shift at 6:15 a.m. The prisoner who stabbed him was sentenced to life in prison and transferred to a different facility, where he later stabbed and wounded another officer. Officer DeMarse was a United States Army Air Forces WWII veteran and had served with the Michigan Department of Corrections for 26 years. He was survived by his wife, daughter, son, two brothers, and a granddaughter. The Earl F. DeMarse Training Academy was named in his memory.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, daughter, son, two brothers, and a granddaughter.

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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.
Correctional Officer DeMarse gave the Michigan Department of Corrections 26 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Michigan, 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 Michigan Department of Corrections

Type Corrections

Location Lansing, MI

Platform Identity michcorr.ingham.mi.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 25, 1973

Tour of Duty 26 yrs

Age 55

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Edged weapon

Military Service

Earl F. DeMarse served in the U.S. Army (1943â1946) before joining law enforcement.

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Correctional Officer Earl F. DeMarse 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 MI, 426 of 718 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 59.3% of this state's fallen. That is 59.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Michigan Department of Corrections, 9 of 15 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.

Michigan Department of Corrections

of 15 officers

60% Felonious

MI — Statewide

426

of 718 officers

59.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious