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.
Store clerk’s murderer walks among us
Called to the scene, St. Tammany Search and Rescue officers found the body two hundred yards downstream at 10:52 Wednesday morning. They found the body stuck on a log, partly nude, with only a sweater bunched around her throat.
Odd links in multiple St. Tammany Parish murders
Clarence Chappell Jr. of Folsom lost two parents to homicides, 10 years apart. Questions are still unanswered in both tragedies.