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.
Mother, child murders reminiscent of another
At 9:22 on a Saturday morning, November 12, 2022, Tangipahoa Parish deputies booked Sedrick Elzey, a 41-year-old Hammond man, as a “person of interest” after officers found the man’s girlfriend and her teenage daughter shot to death inside their home.
Reed indicted for wife’s murder 100 years ago
Nearly a century before Reginald Reed murdered his 26-year-old wife, Selonia Reed, in 1987, an eerily similar case dominated local headlines.Newspapers described 26-year-old Hermina Reed as a “perfectly-shaped pretty young woman,” and her murder as “the mostly ghoulish South Louisiana has ever witnessed.”
Justice at last in Selonia Smith Reed case
On January 11, 2023, the 21st Judicial Court will sentence Reginald Lathan Reed to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. A jury unanimously returned his guilty verdict at 7:30 on a Friday night after deliberating only four hours on November 18.