Philip S. Kesner

Philip S. Kesner, a 23-year-old White male, was an off-duty West Virginia State Police trooper when his life intersected with a mass escape from the West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville on the night of November 7, 1979. He had served with the state police for approximately three years and was married to Constance Kesner. The couple had been married since April 24, 1978, and had no children. That evening they were traveling past the penitentiary just as fifteen inmates were breaking fr ...

Philip Steven Kesner (1956-1979) - Memorials - Find a Grave

Trooper Philip S. Kesner - Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP)