Ponchatoula bandit murders Amite gas attendant
John O’Brien died without hearing or seeing his assailant. As he turned, three shots rang out. The first pierced his shoulder and ricocheted off the door frame. The second plowed through his nipple on the right side of his chest. The third shot pierced his heart. O’Brien left behind a wife and seven children.
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.
Nuccio, McCrory deaths anger Manchac mob
On Tuesday, December 8, 1936, headlines in The New Orleans States newspaper read, “Opinions conflict on missing fishermen” and “Accidentally drowned, says sheriff; Foul play, kin declare.” In the Shreveport Journal, the headlines over an Associated Press article read, “Fishermen missing for week; Believed slain, bodies hidden.”
80-year-old fishing mystery remains unsolved
In 1936, two men vanished under suspicious circumstances near Lake Maurepas. For more than 80 years, descendants of both victims have suspected that the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s office covered up their murders.