Book signing with Audrey Moate discussion
Saturday afternoon at 2, HL Arledge will be speaking at the St. John the Baptist Parish Library, 2920 New Highway 51 in LaPlace, recounting the murder of Thomas Hotard and the disappearance of Audrey Moate. He will also be signing books.
Cartel suspected in missing family case
The New Orleans Police Department reported this week that a family of four—forced from their home by a Honduran drug cartel—boarded a Greyhound in New Orleans two months ago and vanished before reaching their destination.
Minnie Wallace: Gold Digger or Murderess?
On April 19, 1914, The Times-Picayune reported that New Orleans-born heiress Minnie Wallace inherited one-fourth of the estate of Chicago businessman, financier, and railroad magnate Delancey Horton Louderbach after the man died suddenly from “accidentally swallowing poison.” Coincidentally, years earlier, two of “Black Widow” Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham’s husbands died the same way.
Baton Rouge Madam’s death: suicide or murder?
In 1995, long before we knew the name Jeffrey Epstein, the trial, imprisonment, escape, and suicide of a woman newspapers called “The Baton Rouge Madam” made national news.