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.”
Justice for Selonia Reed remains elusive
On Mother’s Day, the bondsman got Reginald Reed out of the Tangipahoa Parish Prison and drove him to the Winn Dixie in Amite. Due to restrictions imposed during the pandemic, the sheriff’s office allowed only bondsmen in and out of the prison. The agent told me later that she was unaware of the evidence against the man or the rape charges filed against him in an unrelated case.
Covington Hitman led rampage after Angola pardon
At dusk, November 20, 1974, hunters discovered what they initially thought was a department store mannequin in a wooded area northeast of Hammond. Bobbye Randall Bond, 27, of Amite, was shot once in the head and once in the chest, days after a New Orleans grand jury subpoenaed her to testify about a narcotics operation extending from New Orleans into Tangipahoa Parish.