Bio & Incident Details
Age: 46
Tour: 12 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 3/5/1977
Weapon: Edged weapon; Shank
Suspect: Sentenced to life imprisonment
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Officer Cox was stabbed to death after being abducted during an escape attempt. A search was begun after Officer Cox and an inmate were discovered to be missing. Officer Cox's body was found under more than two dozen 50-pound sacks of feed in a chicken coop in the prison farm. He had been stabbed several times and his throat had been slashed by a home-made knife. The pickup truck he had been making his rounds in was located in Johnston County. He was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Officer Cox had served with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for 12 years. He was survived by his wife.
