2 posts tagged Bogalusa

Truth elusive in Bogalusa icepick murder

In the Fall of 1984, sometime between Friday evening, October 18th, and Saturday morning, October 19th, a monster wielding an icepick and a two-tined fork stabbed 18-year-old Angela Bond until her breathing stopped. Babysitting at her home in Bogalusa, Angela died by her bed with her one-year-old and her sister’s six-month-old in the same room.

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Murders of teen girls unsolved after 50 years

On June 13, 1967, two fishermen found Patricia Ann Purcell and Joyce Ellen Galloway’s bodies. Someone had savagely beaten the 17-year-old girls to death, leaving them nude, floating in the East Pearl River near a lonely stretch of road 300 yards south of the U.S. Highway 11 bridge at the Louisiana-Mississippi border.

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