12 posts tagged Amite

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Holden black widow escapes Angola electric chair

Margaret Jean Davis admitted to shooting her common-law husband on August 9, 1961, inside their home one mile south of Holden. Robert Ellis Harrison’s homicide marked the third time Margaret Jean became widowed after a suspicious and violent death.

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Loranger murders in same location, decades apart

At dusk, near a Loranger community called Mixon’s Corner, Sunday, August 27, 1950, a two-man search party found a log truck abandoned. Minutes later, the searchers found the driver’s body in the woods fifteen yards from his vehicle. Twenty-three years earlier, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office discovered another body in the same wooded area and arrested a log truck driver for the murder—the same truck driver killed there in 1950.

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They don’t lynch in Tangipahoa Parish anymore

Stumping on the parish courthouse lawn in Shreveport on September 31, 1932, gubernatorial candidate Dudley J. LeBlanc said, “They no longer lynch people in Tangipahoa Parish. They don’t have to. Their newspapers do it for them.”

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Donna Bahm murder remains unsolved

Thirty-three years ago, January 23, 1988, the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a call on the Tickfaw River. Around 2:30 that Saturday afternoon, swimmers discovered the body of Donna Lynn Bahm. The 31-year-old Amite attorney had gone missing two days earlier. The swimmers found under a bridge on Louisiana Highway 1045 near Hillsdale. According to St. Helena Coroner Dr. L.E. Stringer, after striking her twice in the head with a tire iron and fracturing her skull, her murderer popped a pair of.22 caliber slugs into her chest. Afterward, her assailant used a 30-foot logging ...

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