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.
Accused JFK assassin’s pilot hid from police at SLU
This week marks the 59th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. Whether a lone nut, innocent patsy, or co-conspirator, Lee Harvey Oswald and his connections to southeast Louisiana in the summer of 1963 are fascinating.