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Century-old Springfield murder remains unsolved

Friday morning, June 22, 1900, 17-year-old Joseph Ray Ott told his Springfield neighbors he found his 68-year-old aunt in a bloody pulp next to her sewing machine, according to The New Orleans Daily Picayune. The case remains unsolved almost 124 years later.

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Nuccio, McCrory deaths anger Manchac mob

On Tuesday, December 8, 1936, headlines in The New Orleans States newspaper read, “Opinions conflict on missing fishermen” and “Accidentally drowned, says sheriff; Foul play, kin declare.” In the Shreveport Journal, the headlines over an Associated Press article read, “Fishermen missing for week; Believed slain, bodies hidden.”

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80-year-old fishing mystery remains unsolved

In 1936, two men vanished under suspicious circumstances near Lake Maurepas. For more than 80 years, descendants of both victims have suspected that the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s office covered up their murders.

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