Two young girls murdered in Livingston Parish
When newspapers reported Charlotte Sauerwin’s murder in 1988, Johnny and Joyce Stafford came to see me. One year earlier, Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputies found their daughter’s remains in a wooded area near her home, just as they had discovered Charlotte’s body. Johnny told me both girls, near the same age, knew each other in school.
Ponchatoula bandit murders Amite gas attendant
John O’Brien died without hearing or seeing his assailant. As he turned, three shots rang out. The first pierced his shoulder and ricocheted off the door frame. The second plowed through his nipple on the right side of his chest. The third shot pierced his heart. O’Brien left behind a wife and seven children.
Unsolved murders need not remain that way
Two contrasting events occurred last week. A mother made a public plea to the residents of South Louisiana for help exposing the person or person who killed her son in March 2021—while in Central Louisiana, a former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy rallied the public to help police resolve the murder of a teenage girl from 2004.
Body found in river is missing LSU freshman
A week before she vanished, Kori Gauthier, a 19-year-old freshman at Louisiana State University, shot video of herself and a male friend giggling and slapping each other with dorm room pillows. A female voice narrates the video on social media, opening with the phrase, “This is for couples only,” and closes with a question, “In this relationship, who will be the last to die?”