DNA investigator to tackle Lady in the Lake case
If you watched the Netflix documentary series, “I Just Killed My Dad,” you know DNA Researcher Shayna Landry. However, you may not know the Baton Rouge Civil Engineer lives in Livingston Parish. And this week, she offered to help Bayou Justice evaluate DNA related to the Lady in the Lake case discussed earlier this summer.
Caller confesses to murdering Governor’s mistress
Among the leads in the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office file on Rebecca Pauline Gary’s 1988 disappearance, the most intriguing is the telephone confession of a man who claimed former Louisiana Governor Edwin Washington Edwards hired him to kill her.
DNA may identify ‘Lady in the Lake’ after 36 years
This week, I started conversations between the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office and the Buffalo New York Police Department, asking their labs to coordinate DNA testing. After 36 years, investigators may finally name the 20-something-year-old girl found tied naked to the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain.
Computer hiker’s death remains a mystery
After searching two years, police in Florida have identified a hiker found dead in a tent. His last official residence had been in New York, but he arrived there from Louisiana, still working remotely for a company in Baton Rouge. I did not follow the case, so I never saw his photograph until after authorities identified him. Once I did, though, I remembered meeting him in Hammond in 2012.