28 posts tagged Hammond

Mary

Why would Eric Selders murder Mary Alvarez?

Four months before 41-year-old Eric O’Neal Selders allegedly killed 63-year-old Hammond business owner Mary Alvarez, the reputed drug dealer earned a 15-year vacation to the state prison in Angola.

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Accused JFK assassin’s pilot hid from police at SLU

This week marks the 59th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. Whether a lone nut, innocent patsy, or co-conspirator, Lee Harvey Oswald and his connections to southeast Louisiana in the summer of 1963 are fascinating.

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Trunks

New Orleans’ infamous trunk murders revisited

In the summer of 1944, Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate number 18038, a trustee on a routine run to the Angola post office, flagged down a taxicab. The man hired the driver to drop him one hundred miles away at the train station in Hammond, Louisiana.

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JohnCage

They don’t lynch in Tangipahoa Parish anymore

Stumping on the parish courthouse lawn in Shreveport on September 31, 1932, gubernatorial candidate Dudley J. LeBlanc said, “They no longer lynch people in Tangipahoa Parish. They don’t have to. Their newspapers do it for them.”

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