25 posts tagged Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge Madam’s death: suicide or murder?

In 1995, long before we knew the name Jeffrey Epstein, the trial, imprisonment, escape, and suicide of a woman newspapers called “The Baton Rouge Madam” made national news.

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What happened to Congressman Boggs?

The disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs remains, to this day, an unresolved chapter in American history, a story without an ending.

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Allie

One year later, no arrest in Allie Rice murder

However, today, September 16, 2023, Allie’s murderer has walked free for a year.

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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.

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