Governor’s mistress meets murder victim, vanishes
On May 27, 2022, Rebecca Pauline Gary, who family members say was the mistress of a Louisiana governor for fifteen years, may turn sixty-six. However, most believe someone murdered the 32-year-old college clerk the week she vanished, days before New Year’s Eve thirty-four years ago.
They don’t lynch in Tangipahoa Parish anymore
Stumping on the parish courthouse lawn in Shreveport on September 31, 1932, gubernatorial candidate Dudley J. LeBlanc said, “They no longer lynch people in Tangipahoa Parish. They don’t have to. Their newspapers do it for them.”
Louisiana child sex traffic worse than most admit
A multi-agency South Louisiana task force operation headed by the United States Marshal Service resulted in the arrest of 18 alleged human traffickers and saw fourteen missing children return home to their families. However, the problem of juvenile sex and labor traffic in Louisiana is far greater than most realize or are willing to admit.