Famous Gordon Anderson remembered
Following the death of Marshal Victor Gordon Anderson, Jr., age 78, who died September 29, 2023, at North Oaks Medical Center, a family member asked that I revisit the death of Hammond’s original Marshall Gordon Anderson in 1933.
Cold case resolved in dating app murder
When Shawn Arthur’s family asked the New Orleans Police Department to do a wellness check at his apartment on February 25, 2017, they did not expect NOPD to find a corpse.
Karma finds killer in Kentwood after 7 years
Friday, April 1, 1927, St. Helena Parish Sheriff W. N. Nettles was the victim of a rather severe April Fool’s Day trick. That morning, Howard Redman, a laborer working for affluent dairyman Robert R. Travis, confessed to the murder of his brother-in-law, John Brecheen.
Legendary fugitive captured after 32 years
Greg Lawson slipped out a Claiborne Parish Courthouse window thirty-two years ago, escaping deputies waiting to escort him back to Bienville Parish. This week, the Bienville Parish Sheriff’s Office got a call from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation asking them to pick up Lawson in Houston.