Unsolved serial shootings still plague I-10
In July, I reported on several potentially related shootings on two New Orleans interstate highways. Three months later, the shootings continue, now listing a honeymoon couple and an off-duty police officer among the victims.
Some murders bring empathy, others do not
Throughout September, two deaths mesmerized our media. Following long periods of waiting and wondering, this week law enforcement officials issued an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie and confirmed that the DNA in the belly of a 12-foot alligator belonged to Timothy Satterlee of Slidell.
Sherlock Holmes murder suspect in Kentwood
Marshall D. A. Fendalson told reporters before the murder charge, Claude Holmes relished the thought that he could be related to the famous detective. Studying his famous “ancestor,” Holmes took up pipe smoking and offered his services to law enforcement as a consulting detective.
Slidell man lost in storm after alligator attack
According to Captain Lance Vitter, Commander of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office Public Affairs Division, a Slidell woman told investigators, looking at the floodwaters from nearby Lake Pontchartrain, she saw her husband “in a death roll” with a 7-foot alligator. As she approached, the reptile abandoned its prey, allowing the 63-year-old woman to drag her bleeding husband onto the steps. She went inside for her first aid kit and returned before realizing one of his arms was missing.