25 posts tagged Baton Rouge

Allie

Allie Rice’s murderers remain at large

Allison Rice, a 21-year-old senior and marketing major at LSU, worked part-time at The Shed BBQ near the campus. Around 2:19 that morning, driving home to her apartment, Allie stopped her silver SUV at a train crossing in the 1500 block of Government Street. Soon after, to avoid the train or escape an attacker, she seemingly attempted to make a U-turn before someone shot her multiple times in the chest.

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Crime

Escaping Crime in New Orleans and Baton Rouge

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, crime rates in Baton Rouge and New Orleans broke records in 2022. This week, Bayou Justice offers survival techniques for visiting, working, or living in the danger zones.

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Becky Gary

Police report offers few leads in Becky Gary case

Investigating Officer Barry J. Parrish arrived just before five that evening at 8383 Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, responding to a missing persons call from Beverly D. Worthy, the manager of Oakland Apartments. Worthy told the officer that Rebecca Gary had sent her daughter to visit her grandmother in Shreveport two weeks before Christmas and that no one had seen Becky since then.

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Caller confesses to murdering Governor’s mistress

Among the leads in the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office file on Rebecca Pauline Gary’s 1988 disappearance, the most intriguing is the telephone confession of a man who claimed former Louisiana Governor Edwin Washington Edwards hired him to kill her.

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