Teen murders unsolved 50 years later

On August 8, 1971, five years before the first Crime Stoppers organization formed, in a front-page story, The Times-Picayune newspaper offered a $2,000 reward for information regarding the murders of two teenage girls four years earlier. Today, over five decades later, the prize remains uncollected

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Did wife’s hitmen get away with murder?

Tuesday evening at Leblanc Book Keeping and Tax Service in Independence, a customer from Watson bought one of my books. As I signed it for her, she asked, “Do you know anything about the murder of David Bell?”

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Jane Rowell buried in concrete tomb?

Last week, Bayou Justice recounted the disappearance of a missing author and stage actress who vanished in 1963. Wilton Clement, the man Jane Rowell left Southeastern College to marry, insisted that Jane fled to Hollywood, leaving him and their two babies behind. However, the family of Jane Rowell Clement believes her husband killed her and may know where he buried her body. When she disappeared, Jane’s estranged husband told police she had abandoned her family for Hollywood. However, since her disappearance almost 50 years ago, Jane Rowell Clement has not appeared in any motion ...

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Jane Clement missing since 1963

Last week, the first cousin of a journalist and actress missing since 1963 phoned me about the case I recounted three years ago. The caller’s father became an amateur sleuth when his sister vanished. According to the missing girl’s cousin and uncle, investigators today may be close to locating Jane Clement.

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