If you hear I committed suicide, I didn’t
Retired safety manager John Barnett was to answer questions Saturday as part of a deposition related to a legal dispute with his former employer, Boeing, related to safety concerns he had raised. He never made it to court. The week before his death, Barnette told friends and family, “If you hear I committed suicide, I didn’t.”
41-year-old pot box murder still unsolved
Anglers found Catherine Ann Corbello Martin, 20, floating face down on Black Bayou, south of Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish just after eight in the morning, February 18, 1982. Someone had tied her hands behind her back, stabbed her seventeen times in the chest, strangled her, and dislodged her right eye from its socket.
Justice at last in Selonia Smith Reed case
On January 11, 2023, the 21st Judicial Court will sentence Reginald Lathan Reed to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. A jury unanimously returned his guilty verdict at 7:30 on a Friday night after deliberating only four hours on November 18.