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.
Donna Arceneaux investigation grows cold
Two years ago, Bayou Justice recounted the brutal 2017 murder of Donna Arceneaux, a 40-year-old hairstylist found dead in her home with a gunshot wound through her chest. Today, police still have no leads in the cold case.
Deputy’s killer remains free 37 years later
Just after midnight, two nights before Christmas 1984, Cheryl Vallecillo dropped her 40-year-old husband at a Chalmette restaurant to collect a $3,000 gambling debt. An hour later, late-night diners heard a shot and saw a yellow Chevrolet pickup truck speed from the parking lot, leaving Raul David “Butch” Vallecillo, a former detective with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office, lying dead in the gravel with a 25-caliber slug in his skull, two inches behind his right temple.