What happened to Ylenia Carrisi?

Ylenia Carrisi, a 23-year-old aspiring novelist with blonde hair and green eyes, disappeared on January 6, 1994, a week after arriving in New Orleans, leaving her passport and baggage behind.

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Hunter Horgan’s tragic murder revisited

The Reverend Hunter H. Horgan, III, an Episcopalian priest and a native of Hammond, was found stabbed to death in his church office in 1992. Nearly two decades passed before anyone served time for the heinous crime, and today, many feel true justice went unserved.

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Police said victim died in chocolate syrup

When her landlord found Kimberly Gail Womack’s nude and lifeless body in the bedroom of her mobile home, sheriff’s deputies told Kathryn Simpson that her mother had slipped in a puddle of chocolate syrup and hit her head. Following her mother’s cremation, investigators admitted to Kathryn that someone had murdered her mom.

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Still no justice for Nessa Hartley

Four years ago, one day before her 57th birthday, a masked man shot and killed Janessa Hartley as she dropped a friend two blocks from her own home at a Brookshire Avenue residence in their Sherwood Forest neighborhood. The Baton Rouge Police Department is still looking for her killer today.

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