FBI agent hired to expose corrupt cops
Last week, a former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy accused of horrific sex crimes pleaded guilty, avoiding a trial requiring his young victims to testify. His resulting 100-year sentence will land him in a prison where fellow inmates do not immediately kill police officers, rapists, and pedophiles.
Escaping Crime in New Orleans and Baton Rouge
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, crime rates in Baton Rouge and New Orleans broke records in 2022. This week, Bayou Justice offers survival techniques for visiting, working, or living in the danger zones.
Jean Lafitte, Gulf terror and Christmas pirate
Louisiana historians know Jean Lafitte as the pirate who, shortly before Christmas in 1814, surrendered his plunder to fight alongside Colonel Andrew Jackson to save the City of New Orleans. However, few know that Lafitte and his crew had more in common with Santa Claus and Robin Hood than with Blackbeard or Calico Jack Sparrow.
Why would Eric Selders murder Mary Alvarez?
Four months before 41-year-old Eric O’Neal Selders allegedly killed 63-year-old Hammond business owner Mary Alvarez, the reputed drug dealer earned a 15-year vacation to the state prison in Angola.