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.
DNA may identify ‘Lady in the Lake’ after 36 years
This week, I started conversations between the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office and the Buffalo New York Police Department, asking their labs to coordinate DNA testing. After 36 years, investigators may finally name the 20-something-year-old girl found tied naked to the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain.
They don’t lynch in Tangipahoa Parish anymore
Stumping on the parish courthouse lawn in Shreveport on September 31, 1932, gubernatorial candidate Dudley J. LeBlanc said, “They no longer lynch people in Tangipahoa Parish. They don’t have to. Their newspapers do it for them.”