Louisiana man recalls adventure in Devil’s Triangle
At dawn, February 4th, 1963, a New Orleans seaman saw a peculiar flash of light, followed by a boiling yellow, green cloud on the horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, investigators believe he may have been the only human witness to the loss of the tanker S. S. Marine Sulphur Queen and her crew of thirty-nine sailors.
Florida mob witness killed in Louisiana bayou
On January 23, 1968, a 22-year-old cocktail server led police to a remote area near the north shore of Bayou Sauvage. Twenty-one miles east of New Orleans, at the city limits where Chef Menteur Highway, U. S. Highway 90, splits with Ridgeway Boulevard, the waitress pointed across a lagoon to an area only accessible by boat, where investigators could see a partially submerged car.
Computer hiker’s death remains a mystery
After searching two years, police in Florida have identified a hiker found dead in a tent. His last official residence had been in New York, but he arrived there from Louisiana, still working remotely for a company in Baton Rouge. I did not follow the case, so I never saw his photograph until after authorities identified him. Once I did, though, I remembered meeting him in Hammond in 2012.