Breakthrough in Barbara Blount case?
Last week, Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard told reporters his office has new information on the 2008 disappearance of Barbara Blount.
“Right now, we have gotten some information that I feel is going to be very good information. Of course, we have to work through it to make sure it’s credible and what we need. But I have a really good feeling that this is going to put another piece in the puzzle and help us find Barbara Blount and [find out] what actually happened to her,” the sheriff said. “I’m really proud about this, but I don’t want to get too excited because, again, in ...
Holden black widow escapes Angola electric chair
Margaret Jean Davis admitted to shooting her common-law husband on August 9, 1961, inside their home one mile south of Holden. Robert Ellis Harrison’s homicide marked the third time Margaret Jean became widowed after a suspicious and violent death.
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.
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.