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Linda Lawrence

Case from Baton-rouge, LA dated Aug 01, 1977

Victim Details

Linda A. Lawrence

Female

White / Caucasian

Baton-rouge

LA

1977-08-01

30

Linda

Lawrence

07/01/2026

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On a summer day in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 30-year-old Police Officer Linda A. Lawrence was responding to a residential burglary call at the Broadmoor Plantation Apartments. It was August 1, 1977, and Officer Lawrence, a United States Army Reserve veteran, had only been with the Baton Rouge Police Department for four months. She was the first known female officer to be killed in the line of duty in the state.

Upon arrival at the apartment of the suspect's former girlfriend, Officer Lawren ...
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