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.”
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.