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.
Murders of teen girls unsolved after 50 years
On June 13, 1967, two fishermen found Patricia Ann Purcell and Joyce Ellen Galloway’s bodies. Someone had savagely beaten the 17-year-old girls to death, leaving them nude, floating in the East Pearl River near a lonely stretch of road 300 yards south of the U.S. Highway 11 bridge at the Louisiana-Mississippi border.