Did human trafficking gangsters kill Allie Rice?
After reading last week’s Bayou Justice column on Louisiana State University student Allison Rice’s murder, a retired Baton Rouge police officer contacted me with a theory. He suggested the “carjackers” described by the Baton Rouge Police Department destroyed Allison’s SUV because they had no interest in the vehicle. The attackers, he believes, planned to abduct Allison and only killed her when she attempted to escape.
Reed indicted for wife’s murder 100 years ago
Nearly a century before Reginald Reed murdered his 26-year-old wife, Selonia Reed, in 1987, an eerily similar case dominated local headlines.Newspapers described 26-year-old Hermina Reed as a “perfectly-shaped pretty young woman,” and her murder as “the mostly ghoulish South Louisiana has ever witnessed.”
Accused JFK assassin’s pilot hid from police at SLU
This week marks the 59th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. Whether a lone nut, innocent patsy, or co-conspirator, Lee Harvey Oswald and his connections to southeast Louisiana in the summer of 1963 are fascinating.
Covington hitman began career as armed robber
In 1956, Charlie Thrash led Louisiana State Police on a thirty-mile chase, driving a stolen 1951 brown Pontiac. Racing from Bunkie, Louisiana to Alexandria, the 25-year-old crashed through police roadblocks in two parishes with patrol cars from three jurisdictions following bumper-to-bumper. The chase ended when the Pontiac T-boned a state police car blocking Highway 71