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 ...
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