41-year-old pot box murder still unsolved
Anglers found Catherine Ann Corbello Martin, 20, floating face down on Black Bayou, south of Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish just after eight in the morning, February 18, 1982. Someone had tied her hands behind her back, stabbed her seventeen times in the chest, strangled her, and dislodged her right eye from its socket.
What really happened to Selonia Reed?
Judge William Dykes of the 21st District Court sentenced Reginald Lathan Reed, 60, to life in prison without the possibility of parole or probation. Six minutes earlier, Defense Council Vanessa Williams claimed a juror disobeyed the judge’s orders and tried to learn more about the trial from the internet.
Did human trafficking gangsters kill Allie Rice?
After reading last week’s Bayou Justice column on Louisiana State University student Allison Rice’s murder, a retired Baton Rouge police officer contacted me with a theory. He suggested the “carjackers” described by the Baton Rouge Police Department destroyed Allison’s SUV because they had no interest in the vehicle. The attackers, he believes, planned to abduct Allison and only killed her when she attempted to escape.
Allie Rice’s murderers remain at large
Allison Rice, a 21-year-old senior and marketing major at LSU, worked part-time at The Shed BBQ near the campus. Around 2:19 that morning, driving home to her apartment, Allie stopped her silver SUV at a train crossing in the 1500 block of Government Street. Soon after, to avoid the train or escape an attacker, she seemingly attempted to make a U-turn before someone shot her multiple times in the chest.