Bayou Justice draws media attention
In two weeks, the A&E news program, Cold Case Files, arrives in Hammond to film a documentary on the Selonia Reed murder case, a homicide this column caused authorities to reopen and solve three years ago—and Sunday night, August 6, the Bayou Justice podcast, launched three years ago but interrupted by the Covid pandemic, returns to social media, streaming live video for the first time.
Still no justice for Nessa Hartley
Four years ago, one day before her 57th birthday, a masked man shot and killed Janessa Hartley as she dropped a friend two blocks from her own home at a Brookshire Avenue residence in their Sherwood Forest neighborhood. The Baton Rouge Police Department is still looking for her killer today.