Baltimore Police History is a Non-profit Organization Dedicated to Honoring and Remembering Baltimore Police Department's Fallen Heroes. More than 160 Officers have made the Ultimate Sacrifice for the City of Baltimore since 1784 and we are humbled to have taken on the role of preserving their names, and their memories by giving their friends, family, other officers, and citizens the opportunity to remember them, or get to know them. Rather than just read their names, or waiting until we post a memorial post on the day they died, We hope you will take the time to click on the following links and learn as much as you can about each of these officers. So when we do think of them or say a prayer asking for them to continue resting in peace, we'll have spent a little more time getting to know and understand their final moments. 

Our Fallen Heroes

1808 - 15 March 1808 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman George Workner. CLICK

1844 - 19 June 1844 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman Alexander McIntosh  CLICK

1856 - 13 November, 1856 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman John O'Mayer  CLICK

1857 - 14 October 1857 - We lost our Brother Sergeant William Jourdan  CLICK 

1858 - 22 September, 1858 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Benjamin Benton CLICK

1858 - 5 November, 1858 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert M. Rigdon CLICK

1870 - 5 July, 1870 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Murphy CLICK

1871 - 12 January, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles J Walsh * CLICK

1871 - 22 May, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Clark CLICK  

1871 - 14 September, 1871 - We lost our Brother Detective John H. Richards CLICK

1872 - 18 August 1872 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Christopher CLICK 

1872 - 22 Nov 1872 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Franklin Fullum * CLICK

1873 - 12 January 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John H. Dames * CLICK

1873 - 12 January 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James T. Harvey * CLICK

1873 -  6 October 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Thomas Marshal Baldwin *  CLICK

1873 - 11 November 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman William H Healy *   CLICK

1883 - 27 September 1883 - We lost our Brother Captain Benjamin Franklin Kenney  CLICK

1884 - 6 January, 1884 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles W. Fisher.  CLICK

1889 - 4 July, 1889 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Lloyd  CLICK

1891 - 15 July, 1891 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jacob Zapp  CLICK

1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James T. Dunn   CLICK

1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael Neary  CLICK

1895 - 16 June 1895 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Benjamin Graham  CLICK

1895 - 17 October, 1895 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Dailey  CLICK

1899 -  3 July 1899 - We lost our Brother Police Detective John S. Pontier  CLICK

1899 - 29 August, 1899 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Alonzo B. Bishop CLICK

1902 - 20 May 1902 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John a McIntyre *  CLICK

1902 - 30 July 1902 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles J. Donohue  CLICK

1905 - 26 January 1905 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Mathew Boone * (1)   CLICK

1905 - 25 December 1905 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles Spitznagle *   CLICK

1909 - 4 March 1909 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas H. Worthington * (2)   CLICK

1910 - 16 Sept1910 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Tuohy  CLICK

1911 - 16 September 1911 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph Smyth   CLICK

1912 - 25 November 1912 - We lost our Brother Officer John McGrain *   CLICK

1915 - 18 April 1915 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George C. Sauer  CLICK

1915 - 8 July 1915 We lost our Brother Police Sergeant William F. Higgins  CLICK

1915 - 21 September 1915 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herbert Bitzel  * (3)  CLICK

1917 - 22 January 1917 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Michael Burns * (4)   CLICK

1918 - 13 February 1918 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Daniel Benedict   CLICK

1918 - 19 March 1918 - We lost our Sister Police Matron Cecelia A.Foll *   CLICK

1918 - 6 July 1918 - We lost our Brother Patrolman George Kessler CLICK

1918 - 8 July 1918 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Charles H McClean  CLICK

1919 - 16 Feb 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Albert L. Borrell  CLICK

1919 - 3 July 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Lanahan   CLICK

1920 - 2 October 1920 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael J Egan * (5)   CLICK

1921 - 1 May 1921 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Edgar Shellito *  (10)  CLICK

1923 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Edward Swift *  CLICK

1924 - 2 March 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank L. Latham  CLICK  

1924 - 20 June 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles S. Frank *  CLICK

1925 - 2 January 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George D. Hart * (6)  CLICK

1925 - 18 May 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Patrick J Coniffee * (7)  CLICK  

1925 -1 November 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Leroy L. Mitchell  CLICK

1925 - 3 July 1925 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John E. Harris * (8)   CLICK

1926 - 9 February 1926 We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton Heckwolf  CLICK

1926 - 29 June 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Webster E. Schuman  CLICK

1926 - 12 July 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Clerk Thomas J. Dillon  CLICK

1927 - 7 Dec 1927 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Harry Sullivan  CLICK

1927 - 5 August 1927 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William F. Doehler  CLICK

1928 - 12 February 1928 - We lost our Brother Sergeant George M. J. May    CLICK

1928 - 19 November 1928 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph F. Carroll  CLICK  

1929 - 26 July 1929 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James M. Moore   CLICK

1930 - 7 May 1930 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Robert L. Osborne  CLICK  

1931 - 7 January 1931 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John P. Burns   CLICK

1931 - 6 Dec, 1931 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Howard Pitts  CLICK

1932 - 2 January 1932 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William A. Bell  CLICK

1932 - 4 October 1932 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas F. Steinacker  CLICK

1933 - 21 April 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John R. J. Block   CLICK

1934 - 12 February 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Blank  CLICK

1934 - 2 November 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John A. Stapf  CLICK

1934 - 20 December 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry W. Sudmeier  CLICK

1935 - 14 February 1935 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Max Hirsh  CLICK

1935 - 31 Oct 1935 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Arthur H. Malinofski CLICK

1935 - 22 Nov 1935 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James P. Lennon  CLICK

1936 - 16 February 1936 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur R. Cornthwaite CLICK

1936 - 9 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Leo Bacon  CLICK

1936 - 29 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carroll Hanley  CLICK

1936 - 28 December 1936 -  We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. King, Jr.  CLICK

1937 - 31 December 1937 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. Barlow  CLICK

1937 - 17 November 1937 - We lost our Brother Capt. Charles A. Kahler *  CLICK

1938 - 25 Mar 1938 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry E. Auld   CLICK

1938 -  1 Nov 1938 -  We lost our Brother Chief Engineer Joseph Edward Keene  CLICK

1939 - 5 May 1939 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Charles W. Frizzell  CLICK

1940 - 13 June 1940 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William L. Ryan  CLICK

1941 - 11 January 1941 - We lost our Brother Capt. Havey Von Harten  CLICK

1943 - 13 June 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Woodcock   CLICK

1943 - 7 November 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William S. Knight  CLICK

1943 - 16 November 1943 - We lost our Brother Detective Patrolman Charles H. Reid  CLICK

1944 - 29 January 1944 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Waldsachs * (9)   CLICK

1945 - 17 August 1945 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Burns   CLICK

1945 - 10 September 1945 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John B. Bealefeld  CLICK 

1946 - 1 March 1946, We lost our Brother Patrolman George H. Weichert *   CLICK

1946 - 27 June 1946 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James M Shamer *   CLICK

1946 - 20 November 1946 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Elmer A. Noon   CLICK

1947 - 13 January 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Fred R. Unger   CLICK

1947 - 13 October 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles Hart *   CLICK

1948 - 1 October 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. Burns   CLICK

1948 - 30 December 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John W. Arnold  CLICK

1949 - 4 April 1949 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James L. Joyce  CLICK

1949 - 16 October 1949 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. O'Neill  CLICK

1950 - 4 August 1950 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles M. Hilbert   CLICK

1951 - 6 January 1951 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Roland W. Morgan  CLICK

1951 - 23 June 1951 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur Weiss  CLICK

1953 - 1 August 1953 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James L. Scholl   CLICK

1954 - 14 February 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Alfred P. Bobelis CLICK

1954 - 19 April 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Aubrey L. Lowman  CLICK

1954 - 1 July 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter D. Davis   CLICK

1955 - 24 October 1955 - We lost our Brother Sergeant James J. Purcell  CLICK

1956 - 27 May 1956 - We lost our Brother Police Lieutenant William P. Thompson   CLICK 

1956 - 29 September 1956 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John R. Phelan   CLICK

1957 - 9 October 1957 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John F. Andrews   CLICK

1958 - 19 September 1958 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert K. Nelson  CLICK

1959 - 11 January 1959 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard H. Duvall, Jr.  CLICK

1960 - 16 November 1960 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Warren V. Eckert   CLICK

1962 - 7 April, 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry Smith, Jr.  CLICK

1962 - 26 May 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard D. Seebo  CLICK

1962 - 2 July 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward J. Kowalewski  CLICK

1964 - 10 January 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Francis R. Stransky  CLICK

1964 - 6 February 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Claude J. Profili   CLICK

1964 - 11 September 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter Patrick Mathys   CLICK

1964 - 15 October 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Teddy L. Bafford  CLICK

1964 - 25 December 1964 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Jack Lee Cooper  CLICK

1965 - 20 January 1965 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles R. Ernest  CLICK

1965 - 22 July 1965 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert Henry Kuhn  CLICK

1966 - 24 August 1946 - We lost our Brother Honorary Police Officer Simon Fried * 1*  CLICK

1967 - 25 January 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Baumer CLICK

1967 - 10 February 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frederick K. Kontner  CLICK

1967 - 21 August 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John C. Williams  CLICK

1968 - 18 April 1968 - We lost our Brother Detective Richard F. Bosak  CLICK

1968 - 12 November 1968 We lost our Brother Sergeant Frank Ankrom * CLICK

1969 - 20 June 1969 - We lost our Brother William Wilder  CLICK

1970 - 16 January 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George F. Heim  CLICK

1970 - 24 March 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry M. Mickey  CLICK

1970 - 24 April 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Donald W. Sager  CLICK

1971 - 12 June 1971 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carl Peterson, Jr.  CLICK

1971 - 1 August 1971 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Martin Webb  CLICK

1972 - 26 July 1972 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Lorenzo Arnest Gray  CLICK

1973 - 1 December 1973 - We lost our Brother Detective Wiley M. Owens CLICK

1973 - 29 March 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert M. Hurley  CLICK

1973 - 6 April 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Norman Frederick Buchman  CLICK

1973 - 22 September 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Calvin M. Rodwell  CLICK

1974 - 5 May 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank Warren Whitby, Jr.  CLICK

1974 - 1 August 1974 - We lost our Brother Detective Sergeant Frank William Grunder, Jr.  CLICK

1974 - 15 August 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton I. Spell CLICK

1974 - 10 December 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Martin Joseph Greiner  CLICK

1975 - 13 September 1975 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward S. Sherman CLICK

1975 - 27 October 1975 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Timothy B. Ridenour  CLICK

1976 - 16 April 1976 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jimmy Dale Halcomb  CLICK

1978 - 15 February 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edgar J. Rumpf  CLICK

1978 - 23 April 1978 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Robert John Barlow CLICK

1978 - 27 October 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Nelson F. Bell, Jr. CLICK

1979 - 2 March 1979 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John H. Spencer CLICK

1979 - 19 August 1979 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William D. Albers CLICK

1981 - 20 July 1981 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Ronald L. Tracey CLICK

1984 - 28 June 1984 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Johnny LaGrone  CLICK

1984 - 3 December 1984 - We lost our Brother Detective Marcellus Ward  CLICK

1985 - 8 October 1985 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard J. Lear  CLICK

1985 - 18 November 1985 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Vincent J. Adolfo  CLICK

1986 - 21 July 1986 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard Thomas Miller  CLICK

1986 - 20 September 1986 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert Alexander  CLICK

1989 - 10 October 1989 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Martin  CLICK

1992 - 21 September 1992 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Ira Neil Weiner   CLICK

1993 - 26 May 1993 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herman A. Jones, Sr. CLICK

1994 - 24 June 1994 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Gerald M. Arminger  CLICK

1994 - 14 October 1994 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Richard Harris  CLICK

1996 - 20 June, 1896 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William Wilder CLICK

1997 - 7 May 1997 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Owen Eugene Sweeney, Jr. CLICK

1998 - 30 October 1998 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Harold Jerome Carey CLICK  

1998 - 4 November 1998 - We lost our Brother Flight Officer Barry Winston Wood CLICK

2000 - 8 March, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jamie Allen Roussey CLICK

2000 - 21 April, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Kevon Malik Gavin CLICK

2000 - 14 October, 2000 - We lost our Brother Sergeant John  David Platt CLICK

2000 - 14 October, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Kevin Joseph McCarthy CLICK

2001 - March 13, 2001 - We lost our Brother Agent Michael Joseph Cowdery, Jr. CLICK

2002 - 22 August, 2002 - We lost our Sister Police Officer Crystal Deneen Sheffield CLICK

2002 - 23 November, 2002 - We lost our Brother Detective Thomas G. Newman CLICK

2003 - 17 April 2003 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter A Taylor Jr CLICK

2004 - 3 July 2004 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Brian Donte Winder CLICK

2006 - 19 May, 2006 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Anthony A. Byrd  CLICK

2007 - 9 January 2007 - We lost our Brother Detective Troy Lamont Chesley, Sr. CLICK  

2009 - 19 Nov 2009 - We lost our Brother Special Agent Samuel Hicks CLICK

2010 - 27 September 2010 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Earl Fowler, III  CLICK

2010 - 16 October 2010 - We lost our Brother Detective Brian Stevenson  CLICK

2010 - 20 October 2010 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas Russell "Tommy" Portz, Jr. CLICK

2011 - 9 January 2011 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William Henry Torbit, Jr. CLICK

2012 - 29 August 2012 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Forrest "Dino" Taylor  CLICK

2013 - 10 July 2013 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Shane Volk CLICK

2015 - 9 January, 2015 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Craig Chandler CLICK  

2017 - 16 November 2017 - We lost our Brother Police Detective Sean M. Suiter CLICK

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