Lory Lee Price

Illinois State Police — Springfield, IL

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch January 18, 1927

Age 36

Tour of Duty 3 yrs

Badge 78

The Vigil Panel 52 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 66

Incident

Trooper Lory Price and his wife were shot and killed by members of a gang for revenge against his police work. The two were abducted from their home and taken away in separate cars. Trooper Price's body was found two weeks later with 18 gunshot wounds. His wife's body was found four months later in the bottom of a mine shaft. The leader of the gang was sentenced to death and hung for another crime before he could be charged with Trooper Price's murder. Machine guns were mounted on the church during Trooper Price's funeral as a security precaution in case the gangs attempted more harm during his funeral. Trooper Price was a United States Army WWI P.O.W. veteran and had served with the Illinois State Police, assigned to District 13. He and his wife are buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Marion, Illinois.

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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.
Trooper Price gave the Illinois State Police 3 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Illinois, 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 Illinois State Police

Location Springfield, IL

Platform Identity ilsp.il.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 18, 1927

Tour of Duty 3 yrs

Age 36

Badge Number 78

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun; .45 caliber

Offender Executed

Military Service

Lory Lee Price served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Trooper Lory Lee Price 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 IL, 842 of 1,318 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63.9% of this state's fallen. That is 9.7 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Illinois State Police, 17 of 67 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 25.4% of this agency's fallen.

Illinois State Police

of 67 officers

25.4% Felonious

IL — Statewide

842

of 1,318 officers

63.9% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious