As we ring the New Year in 2025, I began my tenth year writing the Bayou Justice column. Looking back at the decade of work, I have revisited over six hundred crimes, most murders hopelessly unsolved. If you saw my national television debut as a crime reporter on A&E’s Cold Case Crimes, the episode “The Devil in Hammond,” you know I am most proud of helping put Selonia Reed’s murderer behind bars after thirty years. What you may not realize, however, is that the year the monster brutally murdered his wife, 1987, marked my tenth year as a newspaper reporter. Since launching ...

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