28 posts tagged Hammond

Goodyear Killer’s rampage remembered

Before newspapers across the state labeled him the Goodyear Killer, 23-year-old Charles Ray Spears escaped from the Jackson Barracks work-release center run by the Louisiana Department of Corrections, where he served time for petty theft. Eleven days later, he landed in Hammond, where he handcuffed two employees of the Goodyear Tire Center back-to-back and shot them in the head.

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Jane Rowell buried in concrete tomb?

Last week, Bayou Justice recounted the disappearance of a missing author and stage actress who vanished in 1963. Wilton Clement, the man Jane Rowell left Southeastern College to marry, insisted that Jane fled to Hollywood, leaving him and their two babies behind. However, the family of Jane Rowell Clement believes her husband killed her and may know where he buried her body. When she disappeared, Jane’s estranged husband told police she had abandoned her family for Hollywood. However, since her disappearance almost 50 years ago, Jane Rowell Clement has not appeared in any motion ...

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Jane Clement missing since 1963

Last week, the first cousin of a journalist and actress missing since 1963 phoned me about the case I recounted three years ago. The caller’s father became an amateur sleuth when his sister vanished. According to the missing girl’s cousin and uncle, investigators today may be close to locating Jane Clement.

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Selonia Reed

What really happened to Selonia Reed?

Judge William Dykes of the 21st District Court sentenced Reginald Lathan Reed, 60, to life in prison without the possibility of parole or probation. Six minutes earlier, Defense Council Vanessa Williams claimed a juror disobeyed the judge’s orders and tried to learn more about the trial from the internet.

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