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.
Donna Bahm murder remains unsolved
Thirty-three years ago, January 23, 1988, the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a call on the Tickfaw River. Around 2:30 that Saturday afternoon, swimmers discovered the body of Donna Lynn Bahm. The 31-year-old Amite attorney had gone missing two days earlier. The swimmers found under a bridge on Louisiana Highway 1045 near Hillsdale.
According to St. Helena Coroner Dr. L.E. Stringer, after striking her twice in the head with a tire iron and fracturing her skull, her murderer popped a pair of.22 caliber slugs into her chest. Afterward, her assailant used a 30-foot logging ...
State highways renamed to salute fallen officers
Friday, November 12 at 9 a.m., in a dedication ceremony at the Gordon A. Burgess Governmental Complex in Amite, the State of Louisiana honored Two Tangipahoa Parish deputies and another from Washington Parish by renaming state highways in honor of the fallen officers.