Arrest made in 13-year-old cold-case homicide
Friday, February 10, at 2:41 in the afternoon, TPSO booked Montrey Paige – now a 30-year-old Hammond construction worker – into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail. Investigators charged him with second-degree murder, multiple failure-to-appear counts, and one charge of jumping bail.
Mother, child murders reminiscent of another
At 9:22 on a Saturday morning, November 12, 2022, Tangipahoa Parish deputies booked Sedrick Elzey, a 41-year-old Hammond man, as a “person of interest” after officers found the man’s girlfriend and her teenage daughter shot to death inside their home.
Loranger murders in same location, decades apart
At dusk, near a Loranger community called Mixon’s Corner, Sunday, August 27, 1950, a two-man search party found a log truck abandoned. Minutes later, the searchers found the driver’s body in the woods fifteen yards from his vehicle. Twenty-three years earlier, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office discovered another body in the same wooded area and arrested a log truck driver for the murder—the same truck driver killed there in 1950.
Shotgun blast kills Governor’s cousin in Amite
May 11, 1959: “A 35-year-old Independence man is being held in the parish jail on murder charges in the shotgun slaying of Louis Davis, 58, in an Amite bar at 5:40 Saturday evening, May 9, 1959. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Tom Sanders identified the suspect as Claude King.”