Louisiana man recalls adventure in Devil’s Triangle
At dawn, February 4th, 1963, a New Orleans seaman saw a peculiar flash of light, followed by a boiling yellow, green cloud on the horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, investigators believe he may have been the only human witness to the loss of the tanker S. S. Marine Sulphur Queen and her crew of thirty-nine sailors.
New Orleans Interstate shootings return in force
Now that other state and national media have reported on the repeat shootings on Interstate 10, readers write weekly asking for an update from my perspective. Generally, I’ve felt my job complete. Other news outlets have finally taken notice. Even with a two-month break in the shootings this year, the monthly average of two interstate shootings per month exceeds the 2021 and 2020 averages.
Kentwood banker freed on uxoricide charge
Friday evening, March 22, 1929, Walter B. Burris, a cashier of the Bank of Kentwood, shot and killed his wife. He placed her gently on a couch and kissed her as their daughter looked on. The man kissed both goodbye before walking a mile into Kentwood and surrendering to police, refusing to explain his actions.
Police find something fishy about dead man’s legs
On a Thursday, October 28, 1948, police arrested a 68-year-old plantation straw boss for falsely reporting the death of his son, a Tallulah Bend fisherman. Authorities jailed George E. Dowdy under a 5,000 dollar bond after arresting his “dead” son, 23-year-old James D. Dowdy, at the Louisiana-Texas border.