Computer hiker’s death remains a mystery
After searching two years, police in Florida have identified a hiker found dead in a tent. His last official residence had been in New York, but he arrived there from Louisiana, still working remotely for a company in Baton Rouge. I did not follow the case, so I never saw his photograph until after authorities identified him. Once I did, though, I remembered meeting him in Hammond in 2012.
Three murder victims torched in Port Vincent
In 1979, a deputy with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office discovered two bodies smoldering in a fishing camp behind a Port Vincent bar. One month earlier, ten miles away, the same department found a woman’s body burning in a roadside ditch. All three murders remain unsolved today.
Horse-eating cat did not kill Ed Kinchen
Woodsman Milt Powers believes Ed Kinchen was killed by a seven-foot panther, one of the largest and most ferocious known in Louisiana. However, law enforcement believe the Springfield rancher may have been killed by a monster of the human variety.
Police suspected teens died in snuff film
On June 13th, 1967, two St. Tammany Parish fishermen found Patricia Ann Purcell and Joyce Ellen Galloway’s bodies. Someone had savagely beaten the 17-year-old girls to death, leaving them nude, floating in the East Pearl River near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. After interrogating 56 men related to the case, only one suspect remained, a 34-year-old truck driver and men’s magazine photographer named William Carroll Vincent, Jr.