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.
Mercy Hospital killer unidentified 66 years later
On a Saturday night, just after nine, April 16, 1955, a man in a Panama hat stepped into a room on the cardiac ward of Mercy Hospital in New Orleans. Inside, he silently crushed a dozing patient’s head with a blunt instrument. Running into the room, Jennie found her husband wheezing, his head bleeding and misshapen. He died five days later.
Dixie Mafia con artists extorted Carlos Marcello
This report wraps up our 4-part series on the mysteries surrounding the murder of Jefferson Downs jockey James Sibille, and this chapter begins as the first, inside the 1975 racketeering trial of reputed mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello.