New Orleans serial shootings unsolved, unhindered
Last Summer, Bayou Justice identified sixty potentially related shootings on two New Orleans interstate highways. Today, every news outlet in the state reports nightly on the attacks, making the highways around Crescent City a shooting gallery. However, New Orleans officials remain tight-lipped, refusing to admit they may have a serial sniper in their city.
On Valentine’s Day, The New Orleans Police Department found a man shot multiple times in a vehicle on the Pontchartrain Expressway near Slidell exit on I-10. Wednesday evening, February 2, around eleven, an unidentified sniper shot ...
Two mothers fear missing sons murdered
Two mothers in South Louisiana contacted Bayou Justice last week with the same problem. Their adult sons are missing, and police suspect both are dead.
Lost letter frees man, prompts civil rights march
The surprise court introduction of a letter Friday morning, July 14, 1967, resulted later that day in the acquittal of J. W. Copling, Jr., a man standing trial for the murder of Clarence Trigg one year earlier, July 30, 1966, on a Saturday evening in Bogalusa. The defendant had attorney Ossie Brown to thank for his freedom.
One of two missing men found near Greensburg
Last week, the daughter of a missing St. Helena Parish man called me, asking Bayou Justice to shine some light on the disappearance of her father, who vanished one year ago from the Hall and Lindsey Road area, a short thoroughfare northwest of Greensburg, between Louisiana Highways 10 and 43.