3 posts tagged Loranger

Ponder Hotel

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.

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Ditched

Questions unanswered in carbon monoxide deaths

Early one Sunday morning, May 11, 1969, two hunters noticed taillights near the Tangipahoa River and discovered the bodies of a Greensburg couple, the parents of seven children, deceased in their car at the bottom of a ravine.

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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.”

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