18 posts tagged St. Tammany Parish

Hermina Reed

Reed indicted for wife’s murder 100 years ago

Nearly a century before Reginald Reed murdered his 26-year-old wife, Selonia Reed, in 1987, an eerily similar case dominated local headlines.Newspapers described 26-year-old Hermina Reed as a “perfectly-shaped pretty young woman,” and her murder as “the mostly ghoulish South Louisiana has ever witnessed.”

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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.

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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.

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Hitman’s rap sheet only scratches the surface

In two earlier installments, we reviewed the early criminal history of the accused Dixie Mafia hitman killed in St. Tammany Parish in 1980. Readers responded to those reports, wanting to know more and asking for evidence of Charlie Thrash’s misdeeds. What follows is the complete Louisiana State Police rap sheet of Charles Olan Thrash.

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