Baton Rouge Madam’s death: suicide or murder?
In 1995, long before we knew the name Jeffrey Epstein, the trial, imprisonment, escape, and suicide of a woman newspapers called “The Baton Rouge Madam” made national news.
New Orleans TV star’s murder remains unsolved
The 7-year-old daughter of a New Orleans television star found her mother, Diddie Cooper, naked and strangled on a Sunday morning in 1952.
Still no answers in Diddie Cooper murder
The Times-Picayune newspaper described Diddie Cooper, a New Orleans television personality and mother of three, as an attractive young socialite from a prominent Louisiana family. Her seven-year-old daughter, the newspaper said, found her mother dead in their home on November 30, 1952.
Someone had strangled and bludgeoned Diddie to death with a blunt instrument, one never identified or recovered by the police. The victim wore a blue translucent negligee, turned inside out, and drenched in blood.
New Orleans police made arrests, and the state tried a suspect. Still, today, over a ...
‘Dead’ man returns to Louisiana alive
Sam Jones, 38, told New Orleans States reporter George Jackson he didn’t know until the fall of 1951 that he had been “murdered” in 1949. The lanky six-footer spoke with Jackson that year inside the Denver police station, where police arrested him in the climax of a grotesque case. Back home in Louisiana, Donald Easterwood, a World War II veteran, had confessed to killing Sam Jones and stood trial for his murder.