What happened to Little Wesley Morgan?
On March 14, 1999, Ruby Renee Havard gave birth to Wesley Dale Morgan in Slaughter, Louisiana. Two years later, the toddler vanished from the front porch of Ruby Renee’s rental home southeast of Clinton, Louisiana.
Who killed Buffy and Momma McKenzie?
In the early morning hours of May 23, 1992, in the hilltop community of Angie, outside Pine, Louisiana, Washington Parish Justice of the Peace James McKenzie returned home from a fox hunting trip to find the bodies of his wife and daughter lifeless in the driveway.
Justice catches up with Goodyear Killer
Last week, we recounted the multiple crimes of the Goodyear Killer, 23-year-old Charles Ray Spears of Greensburg, and the many times he escaped justice. After a defense attorney used police collaboration to build a case for coercion, the New Orleans District Attorney dropped all charges in the murder of Ernest Smith. In Slidell, Judge Wallace Edwards sentenced David E. Lewis to die following the robbery of the Champagne Jewelry Store, the near-death of store clerk Betty Hodge Graves, and the execution of Sergeant Earl Alfred, the first black officer to serve with the Slidell police department.