Bayou Justice draws media attention
In two weeks, the A&E news program, Cold Case Files, arrives in Hammond to film a documentary on the Selonia Reed murder case, a homicide this column caused authorities to reopen and solve three years ago—and Sunday night, August 6, the Bayou Justice podcast, launched three years ago but interrupted by the Covid pandemic, returns to social media, streaming live video for the first time.
Truth elusive in Bogalusa icepick murder
In the Fall of 1984, sometime between Friday evening, October 18th, and Saturday morning, October 19th, a monster wielding an icepick and a two-tined fork stabbed 18-year-old Angela Bond until her breathing stopped. Babysitting at her home in Bogalusa, Angela died by her bed with her one-year-old and her sister’s six-month-old in the same room.
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.
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.