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.
Wayward Santa nearly arrested in Hammond
A heavy-set man, his face masked with shaving foam that made one victim describe him as Santa Claus, robbed this North Mississippi town’s only bank of $222. When the same man arrives in Hammond, Louisiana, more trouble begins.
Murdered tow driver’s nemesis wore a badge
Throughout the five years preceding his murder, tow truck driver Charles Lee Reppond told anyone who would listen that the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office covered up the circumstances of his son’s death, and in 1988, he filed a 50,000-dollar lawsuit against a 20-year veteran of the department.