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.
Caller confesses to murdering Governor’s mistress
Among the leads in the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office file on Rebecca Pauline Gary’s 1988 disappearance, the most intriguing is the telephone confession of a man who claimed former Louisiana Governor Edwin Washington Edwards hired him to kill her.
Governor’s mistress meets murder victim, vanishes
On May 27, 2022, Rebecca Pauline Gary, who family members say was the mistress of a Louisiana governor for fifteen years, may turn sixty-six. However, most believe someone murdered the 32-year-old college clerk the week she vanished, days before New Year’s Eve thirty-four years ago.