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.
Tow truck driver shot, body burned inside
Charles Lee Reppond climbed into his first tow truck in 1969, unaware that a similar truck would become his tomb 20 years later.
St. Helena Strangler escapes justice
Monday morning, November 12, 1979, two hunters discovered the body of a teenage boy at a garbage dump in Darlington, east of Greensburg. The circumstances of his death matched at least two others in the area, leading the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office to suspect they had a serial killer walking among them.