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Senior Investigator

Nicholas Georgeadis

New York State Police — Albany, NY

Veteran → Illness

End of Watch April 28, 2023

Age 52

Tour of Duty 21 yrs

The Vigil Panel 181 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 170

Incident

Senior Investigator Nick Georgeadis died as the result of cancer that he developed following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.

Investigator Georgeadis was a United States Army National Guard veteran and had served with the New York State Police for 21 years, assigned to the Special Investigations Unit and New York State Homeland Security.

September 11, 2001 - The Years After

Senior Investigator Nicholas Georgeadis was assigned to the search and recovery at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. He was 31 years old that fall.

He died on April 28, 2023 - 21 years and 7 months later - of an illness contracted there. He was 52.

He is one of 599 officers honored here, and one of 38 at New York State Police.

The most recent of these deaths was October 24, 2025.

Officers who worked the search, rescue, and recovery at the World Trade Center site breathed contaminated air for weeks and months afterward. Many developed cancers and respiratory disease, and they have gone on dying of it ever since.

Seventy-two officers were killed on the morning itself. Hundreds more have died in the years that followed. They are honored here together, because the same attack killed them all. With some it simply took longer.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, two sons, daughter, father, sister, nieces, and nephews.

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Tributes

You walked into it and it took years to finish the job.
Senior Investigator Georgeadis gave the New York State Police 21 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of New York. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Investigator Georgeadis.

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

Agency

Department New York State Police

Type State Police

Location Albany, NY

Platform Identity nysp.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 28, 2023

Tour of Duty 21 yrs

Age 52

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Weapon Aircraft; Passenger jet

Military Service

Nicholas Georgeadis served in the U.S. Army (1993â1993) before joining law enforcement.

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Senior Investigator Nicholas Georgeadis is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In NY, 655 of 2,147 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 30.5% of this state's fallen. That is 30.5 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At New York State Police, 41 of 171 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 24% of this agency's fallen.

New York State Police

of 171 officers

24% Illness

NY — Statewide

655

of 2,147 officers

30.5% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Illness