59 posts tagged murder

Dennis Creel’s murderer still unidentified

A farmer walking his fence line off 4-H Club Road in Denham Springs discovered Dennis Creel’s body on Halloween Day. Someone had tied Creel’s hands behind his back before or after beating him to death.

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Snuff Film

Police suspected teens died in snuff film

On June 13th, 1967, two St. Tammany Parish fishermen found Patricia Ann Purcell and Joyce Ellen Galloway’s bodies. Someone had savagely beaten the 17-year-old girls to death, leaving them nude, floating in the East Pearl River near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. After interrogating 56 men related to the case, only one suspect remained, a 34-year-old truck driver and men’s magazine photographer named William Carroll Vincent, Jr.

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Teen murders unsolved 50 years later

On August 8, 1971, five years before the first Crime Stoppers organization formed, in a front-page story, The Times-Picayune newspaper offered a $2,000 reward for information regarding the murders of two teenage girls four years earlier. Today, over five decades later, the prize remains uncollected

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Jane Rowell buried in concrete tomb?

Last week, Bayou Justice recounted the disappearance of a missing author and stage actress who vanished in 1963. Wilton Clement, the man Jane Rowell left Southeastern College to marry, insisted that Jane fled to Hollywood, leaving him and their two babies behind. However, the family of Jane Rowell Clement believes her husband killed her and may know where he buried her body. When she disappeared, Jane’s estranged husband told police she had abandoned her family for Hollywood. However, since her disappearance almost 50 years ago, Jane Rowell Clement has not appeared in any motion ...

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