Paul Douglas Ice, Senior Special Agent

U.S. Customs Service

Agent Ice was one of the first U S Customs agents assigned to the Oklahoma City office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1988. At 9:02 A.M. on Wednesday, April 19, 1995, Agent Ice, 42, was standing at the desk of investigative assistant Patricia Salyers in the Customs office on the fifth floor when a truck bomb exploded in front of the building killing Agent Ice. Salyer’s desk fell three floors into the area that once had been the day care center. Although she sustained serious injuries, she survived. Agent Ice was survived by two daughters.

Ben Impson, Deputy U.S. Marshal/Posseeman

U.S. Marshals

“The Fort Smith Elevator” of December 9, 1887, reported that Ben Impson, posseman of Deputy U. S. Marshal Lawrence, was killed by Indians east of Stringtown in the Choctaw Nation. It also noted that the Federal Court at Fort Smith had no jurisdiction in the matter since Impson was also Indian.

Lawrence M. Inman, Officer

Tulsa Police Department

On Wednesday, January 15, 1947, Officer Lawrence, 53, was responding to a reported armed robbery when his patrol car was involved in a traffic accident with another vehicle on East 11th Street and he was injured. Officer Inman died from his injuries two months later on March 13th.

William H. Irwin, Deputy U.S. Marshal

U.S. Marshals

On Tuesday, April 13, 1886, Deputy Irwin was taking Felix Griffin from Webbers Falls to the Federal Court in Fort Smith on a burglary charge. Two members of Griffin’s gang, Frank Palmer and Jack Spaniard, ambushed and killed Deputy Irwin, freeing their leader. Deputy Irwin was a widower supporting two children. Felix Griffin was killed while trying to steal some horses the first week of May 1887. Frank Palmer was never apprehended. Jack Spaniard, 36, was arrested on March 25, 1888 and hanged at Fort Smith on August 30, 1889 for the murder.

Thomas Frank Isbell, Trooper

Oklahoma Highway Patrol

Just before midnight on Wednesday, December 20, 1972, Trooper Isbell and his partner Trooper Robert Foltz were investigating a traffic accident five miles west of El Reno on I-40. The scene was surrounded by the troopers’ cruiser with emergency lights on, burning flares and traffic cones. As Trooper Isbell, 26, was measuring skid marks in the roadway, when a car driven by Elyse Ann Madison, 21, from Des Moines, Iowa, struck him and carried him 128 feet. Trooper Isbell was thrown to the pavement when the car skidded to a stop. Trooper Isbell was dead on arrival at Park View Hospital in El Reno. Trooper Isbell was survived by his parents.