58 posts tagged murder

FBI still searching for Hazel Head

In August 1998, a woman calling herself “DeAnna Wray” placed an advertisement in the personal sections of several Louisiana newspapers seeking victims. Wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hazel Head has been featured on both the Unsolved Mysteries and America’s Most Wanted television programs.

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Cold case resolved in dating app murder

When Shawn Arthur’s family asked the New Orleans Police Department to do a wellness check at his apartment on February 25, 2017, they did not expect NOPD to find a corpse.

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One year later, no arrest in Allie Rice murder

However, today, September 16, 2023, Allie’s murderer has walked free for a year.

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Senator’s assassination still a mystery

After Huey Long died in a Baton Rouge hospital, the Times-Picayune reported that all of Frank Costello's slot machines had returned to Baton Rouge and New Orleans as mysteriously as they had vanished two weeks earlier. Decades later, before a government committee, Costello claimed Huey Long invited him to ship his slot machines to Louisiana from New York, an offer he could not refuse.

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