Elizabeth S. Cobb

Alabama Department of Public Safety — Montgomery, AL

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch October 11, 1987

Age 36

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

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Gender Female

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 28

Incident

Trooper Elizabeth Cobb was shot and killed by her boyfriend, who was also a state trooper. He murdered her in the parking lot of a church on Dallas County Road 6, near Route 41, while she was on duty in an attempt to collect a $350,000 life insurance policy. The man was apprehended and sentenced to death, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. He plead guilty to murder during a second trial and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released in 2012. Trooper Cobb was a U.S. Air Force veteran and had served with the Alabama Department of Public Safety for one year.

Survivors

She is survived by her parents.

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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.
Trooper Cobb gave the Alabama Department of Public Safety 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the people of Alabama, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, sister.

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

Agency

Department Alabama Department of Public Safety

Location Montgomery, AL

Platform Identity adps.al.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 11, 1987

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

Age 36

Gender Female

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender Released in 2012

Military Service

Elizabeth S. Cobb served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Trooper Elizabeth S. Cobb 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 AL, 405 of 643 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63% of this state's fallen. That is 8.8 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Alabama Department of Public Safety, 7 of 29 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 24.1% of this agency's fallen.

Alabama Department of Public Safety

of 29 officers

24.1% Felonious

AL — Statewide

405

of 643 officers

63% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious