28 posts tagged Hammond

rodriguez

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.

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campburning

Three murder victims torched in Port Vincent

In 1979, a deputy with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office discovered two bodies smoldering in a fishing camp behind a Port Vincent bar. One month earlier, ten miles away, the same department found a woman’s body burning in a roadside ditch. All three murders remain unsolved today.

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HorseEater

Horse-eating cat did not kill Ed Kinchen

Woodsman Milt Powers believes Ed Kinchen was killed by a seven-foot panther, one of the largest and most ferocious known in Louisiana. However, law enforcement believe the Springfield rancher may have been killed by a monster of the human variety.

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LilJohnnys

Politicians held hostage in Hammond restaurant

According to former Police Juror Joe Joe Darouse, Frank McCarroll kicked open the banquet room door, pointed his automatic shotgun, and said, “This is no holdup, but if anybody moves, we’ll kill you.” And then he asked the room why they invited Milton Blount to their meeting.

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