Murders of teen girls unsolved after 50 years
On June 13, 1967, two 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 a lonely stretch of road 300 yards south of the U.S. Highway 11 bridge at the Louisiana-Mississippi border.
Nuccio, McCrory deaths anger Manchac mob
On Tuesday, December 8, 1936, headlines in The New Orleans States newspaper read, “Opinions conflict on missing fishermen” and “Accidentally drowned, says sheriff; Foul play, kin declare.” In the Shreveport Journal, the headlines over an Associated Press article read, “Fishermen missing for week; Believed slain, bodies hidden.”
80-year-old fishing mystery remains unsolved
In 1936, two men vanished under suspicious circumstances near Lake Maurepas. For more than 80 years, descendants of both victims have suspected that the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s office covered up their murders.
Politicians held hostage in Hammond restaurant
According to former Police Juror Joe Joe Darouse, Frank McCarroll kicked open the banquet room door, pointed his automatic shotgun, and said, “This is no holdup, but if anybody moves, we’ll kill you.” And then he asked the room why they invited Milton Blount to their meeting.