Store clerk’s murderer walks among us
Called to the scene, St. Tammany Search and Rescue officers found the body two hundred yards downstream at 10:52 Wednesday morning. They found the body stuck on a log, partly nude, with only a sweater bunched around her throat.
Deputy’s killer remains free 37 years later
Just after midnight, two nights before Christmas 1984, Cheryl Vallecillo dropped her 40-year-old husband at a Chalmette restaurant to collect a $3,000 gambling debt. An hour later, late-night diners heard a shot and saw a yellow Chevrolet pickup truck speed from the parking lot, leaving Raul David “Butch” Vallecillo, a former detective with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office, lying dead in the gravel with a 25-caliber slug in his skull, two inches behind his right temple.
Murdered tow driver’s nemesis wore a badge
Throughout the five years preceding his murder, tow truck driver Charles Lee Reppond told anyone who would listen that the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office covered up the circumstances of his son’s death, and in 1988, he filed a 50,000-dollar lawsuit against a 20-year veteran of the department.
Tow truck driver shot, body burned inside
Charles Lee Reppond climbed into his first tow truck in 1969, unaware that a similar truck would become his tomb 20 years later.