24 posts tagged Livingston Parish

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Camping bandit eludes Livingston Parish Sheriff

In Albany, Louisiana, on a Wednesday morning, February 15, 1939, Livingston Parish Deputies Willie Scivicque and P. R. Erwin stopped two couples driving stolen vehicles on the Hammond-Baton Rouge Highway. The lead vehicle, a Ford pickup truck, towed a camper trailer, filled with stolen goods.

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Petito death scene recalls Carol Hutchinson slaying

Photos from the Gabby Petito crime scene show police used orange paint to flag the location of over two dozen small bullet-hole-like markings on rocks and trees near her body. Considering this evidence, I believe Gabby’s fiancé chased her with a handgun, continuously firing until the frightened 22-year-old fell dead. No one from South Louisiana will imagine this scene without recalling the murder of Carol Hutchinson.

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Assassination witness remembers Faller ambush

On the evening of January 23, 1962, assassins shot and killed a Louisiana public official in Livingston Parish. On Highway 42 near Springville, two or more conspirators ambushed 48-year-old Marketing Commission Executive Secretary Marvin Faller, unaware that two men witnessed the operation.

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Two young girls murdered in Livingston Parish

When newspapers reported Charlotte Sauerwin’s murder in 1988, Johnny and Joyce Stafford came to see me. One year earlier, Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputies found their daughter’s remains in a wooded area near her home, just as they had discovered Charlotte’s body. Johnny told me both girls, near the same age, knew each other in school.

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