2 posts tagged De Sair

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Did voodoo curse follow lawmen to Kentwood?

After a woman suggested three Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s deputies loaded her stolen treasure on a train and a voodoo priestess cast a spell over them, all three men died of unnatural causes.

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Fortune in voodoo gold still missing 136 years later

This column is part one of another chapter from the history of Bloody Tangipahoa. Circumstances revealed in this two-part report suggest members of a Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s posse succumbed to a curse after relieving a voodoo doctor of a fortune in gold.

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