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.
One year later, no arrest in Allie Rice murder
However, today, September 16, 2023, Allie’s murderer has walked free for a year.
Senator’s assassination still a mystery
After Huey Long died in a Baton Rouge hospital, the Times-Picayune reported that all of Frank Costello's slot machines had returned to Baton Rouge and New Orleans as mysteriously as they had vanished two weeks earlier. Decades later, before a government committee, Costello claimed Huey Long invited him to ship his slot machines to Louisiana from New York, an offer he could not refuse.