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After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref>​

After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref>​

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==Family life==

==Family life==

Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988).​

Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988).​

===Murder of youngest son===​

===Murder of youngest son===​

In 2001, Dooley's estranged daughter-in-law, Jocelyn Banks Dooley, and her boyfriend, Jeffrey E. Kosden (born 1967), a bartender originally from [[New Jersey]], were charged with second degree murder in the disappearance and death of Dooley's then 36-year-old son, Vol "Bubba" Dooley, III, an employee of a Bossier City [[casino]]. In 2003, Jocelyn Dooley received a life sentence for shooting her husband to death and forty additional years for [[obstruction of justice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614806/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl|title=''Snapped'' (TV series): "Jocelyn Dooley"|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Early in 2005, the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport upheld Dooley's conviction.<ref>"Second Circuit Upholds Conviction of Dooley," ''The Shreveport Times,'' February 24, 2005.</ref> The Louisiana Supreme Court then rejected Jocelyn Dooley's appeal, which was based on immunized testimony provided against her by Kosden. Prosecutors said that Dooley, III, was shot in his home in Plain Dealing and that his wife solicited help from Kosden to bury her husband's body in a shallow grave off Louisiana Highway 2 in neighboring Caddo Parish. The grave was found nine days later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ksla.com/story/2999580/dooley-life-sentence-upheld-by-court|title=Dooley life sentence upheld by court, 2005|publisher=[[KSLA-TV]]|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/local-murder-case-on-national-tv/|title=Local Murder Case on National TV: Jocelyn Banks Dooley|date=March 9, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio ([[Shreveport]])|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref>​

In 2001, Dooley's estranged daughter-in-law, Jocelyn Banks Dooley, and her boyfriend, Jeffrey E. Kosden (born 1967), a bartender originally from [[New Jersey]], were charged with second degree murder in the disappearance and death of Dooley's then 36-year-old son, Vol "Bubba" Dooley, III, an employee of a Bossier City [[casino]]. In 2003, Jocelyn Dooley received a life sentence for shooting her husband to death and forty additional years for [[obstruction of justice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614806/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl|title=''Snapped'' (TV series): "Jocelyn Dooley"|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Early in 2005, the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport upheld Dooley's conviction.<ref>"Second Circuit Upholds Conviction of Dooley," ''The Shreveport Times,'' February 24, 2005.</ref> The Louisiana Supreme Court then rejected Jocelyn Dooley's appeal, which was based on immunized testimony provided against her by Kosden. Prosecutors said that Dooley, III, was shot in his home in Plain Dealing and that his wife solicited help from Kosden to bury her husband's body in a shallow grave off Louisiana Highway 2 in neighboring Caddo Parish. The grave was found nine days later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ksla.com/story/2999580/dooley-life-sentence-upheld-by-court|title=Dooley life sentence upheld by court, 2005|publisher=[[KSLA-TV]]|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/local-murder-case-on-national-tv/|title=Local Murder Case on National TV: Jocelyn Banks Dooley|date=March 9, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio ([[Shreveport]])|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref>​

 

Kosden turned state's evidence, and the charges against him were dropped in 2010 because he was not involved in the actual shooting of Dooley but in the illicit disposal of the corpse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/in%20laco%2020100414317|title=STATE of Louisiana, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeffrey E. KOSDEN, Defendant-Appellant|work=leagle.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> In 2011, eight years after the verdict against Jocelyn Dooley, the case was featured on the [[documentary]] [[television]] series, ''Sins and Secrets'' on the Discovery Channel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/regional_news/article_f7dca5cc-49fb-11e0-a9c1-001cc4c002e0.html|title=Bossier Parish homicide case will be featured on digital television program, March 9, 2011|publisher=''Magnolia ([[Arkansas]]) Reporter''|accessdate=March 3, 2014}}</ref> Vol Dooley, Jr., appeared as himself in ''Sins and Secrets''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5361006/|title=Vol Dooley, Jr.|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=March 3, 2014}}</ref> The murder case was also televised on ''Snapped''.​

Kosden turned state's evidence, and the charges against him were dropped in 2010 because he was not involved in the actual shooting of Dooley but in the illicit disposal of the corpse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/in%20laco%2020100414317|title=STATE of Louisiana, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jeffrey E. KOSDEN, Defendant-Appellant|work=leagle.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> In 2011, eight years after the verdict against Jocelyn Dooley, the case was featured on the [[documentary]] [[television]] series, ''Sins and Secrets'' on the Discovery Channel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/regional_news/article_f7dca5cc-49fb-11e0-a9c1-001cc4c002e0.html|title=Bossier Parish homicide case will be featured on digital television program, March 9, 2011|publisher=''Magnolia ([[Arkansas]]) Reporter''|accessdate=March 3, 2014}}</ref> Vol Dooley, Jr., appeared as himself in ''Sins and Secrets''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5361006/|title=Vol Dooley, Jr.|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> The murder case was also televised on ''Snapped.''

 

==Death==​

==Death==​

Dooley died in Bossier City at the age of eighty-seven of a lengthy illness at the age of 87. Services were held on August 14 at Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, with Dooley's friend, the Reverend Billy Pierce, officiating. Interment followed at Hillcrest Cemetery in Haughton.<ref name=shrtimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/12/ex-bossier-sheriff-vol-dooley-dies/13967151/|title=Ex-Bossier Sheriff Vol Dooley dies|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=August 12, 2014}}</ref>​

Dooley died in Bossier City at the age of eighty-seven of a lengthy illness at the age of 87. Services were held on August 14 at Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, with Dooley's friend, the Reverend Billy Pierce, officiating. Interment followed at Hillcrest Cemetery in Haughton.<ref name=shrtimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/12/ex-bossier-sheriff-vol-dooley-dies/13967151/|title=Ex-Bossier Sheriff Vol Dooley dies|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=August 12, 2014}}</ref>​

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In the ceremony, fourteen motorcycles headed what local law enforcement officials called a "presidential escort." Some forty vehicles from the Bossier Parish Sheriff's office, the Bossier City and Shreveport police departments, and other agencies as well stood watch as the body was moved from the church to the cemetery. Sheriff Julius Whittington said that he had grown up three houses away from Dooley, who was Whittington's Little League [[baseball]] coach. "Who would have known? Who would have dreamed?," said Whittington, who followed Dooley as sheriff twenty-four years thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/15/friends-colleagues-pay-tribute-dooley-funeral/14142793/|title=Friends, colleagues pay tribute to Dooley at funeral|author=Maya Lau|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 15, 2014|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref>​

In the ceremony, fourteen motorcycles headed what local law enforcement officials called a "presidential escort." Some forty vehicles from the Bossier Parish Sheriff's office, the Bossier City and Shreveport police departments, and other agencies as well stood watch as the body was moved from the church to the cemetery. Sheriff Julius Whittington said that he had grown up three houses away from Dooley, who was Whittington's Little League [[baseball]] coach. "Who would have known? Who would have dreamed?," said Whittington, who followed Dooley as sheriff twenty-four years thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/08/15/friends-colleagues-pay-tribute-dooley-funeral/14142793/|title=Friends, colleagues pay tribute to Dooley at funeral|author=Maya Lau|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 15, 2014|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref>​

==References==

==References==