Senator’s assassination still a mystery

After Huey Long died in a Baton Rouge hospital, the Times-Picayune reported that all of Frank Costello's slot machines had returned to Baton Rouge and New Orleans as mysteriously as they had vanished two weeks earlier. Decades later, before a government committee, Costello claimed Huey Long invited him to ship his slot machines to Louisiana from New York, an offer he could not refuse.

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Nanette Krentel murder featured Sunday night

Sunday night, the Bayou Justice broadcast revisits the 2017 murder of Nanette Krentel in St. Tammany Parish, discussing live comments and theories from viewers and longtime supporters of this newspaper column.

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Did you know Justin Wilson?

During Sunday night’s Bayou Justice live social media broadcast, someone asked if I knew Justin Wilson. That prompted me to tell the caller about a column we published three years ago and ended with me promising to retell the story this week.

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Sheriff’s murder linked to hanging in Springfield

What are the odds the murder of a traditional old west sheriff in Dawson County, Montana, could lead to a subsequent murder and hanging in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, two years later?

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