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Elizabeth Cobb

Case from Belknap, AL dated Oct 11, 1987

Victim Details

Elizabeth Cobb

Female

White / Caucasian

Belknap

AL

1987-10-11

36

Elizabeth

Cobb

07/03/2026

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On an autumn evening, the life of 36-year-old female Alabama State Trooper Elizabeth Cobb was tragically cut short. On October 11, 1987, she was found in her patrol car, parked behind a church on a county road in Dallas County, having been shot in the head. Cobb, a U.S. Air Force veteran, had been with the Alabama Department of Public Safety for a year and held the distinction of being the first female trooper in the state to be killed in the line of duty.

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