Ed Cantrell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American state police officer
Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1927
Place of Birth: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 11-Jun-2004
Profession: police officer
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Ed Cantrell
- Ed Cantrell (December 21, 1927 – June 11, 2004) was the public safety director of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a town tied to widespread corruption, who killed one of his own officers in 1978 but was acquitted after trial.The son of Samuel Glenn Cantrell, a Nazarene minister and Vesta Marie (née Robinson) Cantrell, Ed was born in Bloomington, Indiana.
- He excelled in sports and graduated from Plainfield High School in 1945 with a football and basketball scholarship.
- Aspiring to be a coach, he had almost completed three years at Indiana State College when President Truman ordered the Berlin airlift in 1948.
- Cantrell immediately enlisted in the Army and spent three years as a military policeman in the "bombed-out ruin" south of Frankfurt, Germany.
- His tour of duty was then extended due to the Korean War.
- Upon discharge, he graduated with honors from the Indiana State Police Academy. An avid hunter, fisherman and marksman, he later visited Wyoming and decided to relocate there.
- Accepted into the Wyoming Highway Patrol, he was assigned to the Rock Springs area in 1960.
- Although he liked his job, he later resigned from the highway patrol to lobby for a state police bill.
- "A little skeleton crew of highway patrolmen and a sheriff's department were understaffed," he said, explaining that he and his fellow officers were trying to create a more effective state police force. The following January he was hired as a range detective in Lusk.
- His job took him all over Wyoming as well as neighboring states in pursuit of lawbreakers.
- Then, in 1976, following the death of his oldest son in a car accident, Cantrell and his wife decided to return to Rock Springs, where he worked for undersheriff Jim Stark.
- The following year Cantrell assumed the post of safety director of a badly demoralized Rock Springs police force.
- He then formed a detective division from existing officers and hired Michael Rosa as an undercover detective.
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