44 posts tagged New Orleans

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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What happened to Congressman Boggs?

The disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs remains, to this day, an unresolved chapter in American history, a story without an ending.

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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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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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