Ponchatoula officer’s death reignites vaccine fears
Within days of researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launching a new investigation into possible links between heart inflammation and the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, a healthy 44-year-old Ponchatoula Police Officer has died from heart complications.
Who killed David Charles Matte and why?
Lori Matte wrote me recently to say her family—including her brother, who is a Louisiana State Trooper—has no clues regarding who killed her 45-year-old brother or why. “Monday, July 19, 2004, was a regular day for David,” Lori wrote. “Everything went fine at work, and he went about his usual business afterward. His neighbors reported that everything appeared normal that evening.”
Selonia Reed’s son accepts his father’s guilt
After decades of denying the facts, Reginald Reed Jr. has accepted the evidence that his father brutally slaughtered his mother in 1987. “Reggie Junior,” who was a child when his mother died, also says he has forgiven his father.
Crime fiction author tackles Louisiana true crime
I met crime fiction author James Patterson at a California writer’s conference over ten years ago. He told me how he studied true crime to stay grounded in his work, and ten years later, he dropped me a note, commending me on a column. He said the case I wrote about would haunt him. He wished he could do more to help but wasn’t sure how.