NOPD says State Police no help with I-10 snipers
In April, the New Orleans Police Department’s Director of Communications asked me to stop referring to Interstate 10 shooters as serial snipers, and I have complied. However, for the record, the Merriam-Webster dictionary does define “serial” as “performing a series of similar acts over time” and “snipe” as “to shoot at exposed individuals from a concealed point of vantage.” In other words, repeat offenders do not have to fire high-powered rifles from atop high-rise hotels to be called snipers.
Fallen Hammond officer Fred Karlton remembered
For decades, historians considered Marshal James Gordon Anderson, killed in 1933, the first Hammond police officer to die serving the city. However, in 2020, Bayou Justice discovered the 1922 murder of Marshal John Madison Day. And this week, we recount the career of Officer Fred Karlton, including his shotgun death as he served his final warrant in 1917.
New Orleans’ infamous trunk murders revisited
In the summer of 1944, Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate number 18038, a trustee on a routine run to the Angola post office, flagged down a taxicab. The man hired the driver to drop him one hundred miles away at the train station in Hammond, Louisiana.
Police report offers few leads in Becky Gary case
Investigating Officer Barry J. Parrish arrived just before five that evening at 8383 Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, responding to a missing persons call from Beverly D. Worthy, the manager of Oakland Apartments. Worthy told the officer that Rebecca Gary had sent her daughter to visit her grandmother in Shreveport two weeks before Christmas and that no one had seen Becky since then.