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Whatever happened to A. J. Breaux?

Officially, Adam John “A. J.” Breaux died in 1998, the day a judge declared him legally dead. However, no one knows what happened to the friendly clothing sales clerk who vanished on August 27, 1991. The search for A. J. Breaux began 30 years ago this year, but every August, without fail, his three grown daughters reach out to the news media, still hoping to learn the fate of a father they loved.

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Bloody Tangipahoa shootout assessed in court

Before his death on October 9, 1899, Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Avery R. Draughon told fellow deputies that Gage and Alonzo Gill accosted him at the train station in Tangipahoa, shooting him three times. Aleck and Jim Gill promised Deputy Sheriff W. J. Mullins their brothers would surrender by week’s end, but that never happened.

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Stories conflict in Bloody Tangipahoa shooting

Sunday, October 8, 1899, the evening edition of the New Orleans Daily Picayune stacked multiple headlines per story, shouting “Tangipahoa wars start again,” followed by “Deputy Sheriff Draughon seriously wounded by 2 Gill boys,” “Shooting at victim’s home,” “Deputy boarding train for Kentwood when Gill pounced on him,” and “Three shots! Victim pulled gun as they searched him.”

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Amite murder, rape predated Hotard-Moate events

Lillie Ford told police her attacker raped her in the woods before running away with her purse. Afterward, the woman returned to the car, pushed the driver to one side, and drove to Shorse’s Medical Clinic in Amite. She arrived at the clinic just before two that morning and phoned the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office. Her companion died on the road.

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