Mother, child murders reminiscent of another
At 9:22 on a Saturday morning, November 12, 2022, Tangipahoa Parish deputies booked Sedrick Elzey, a 41-year-old Hammond man, as a “person of interest” after officers found the man’s girlfriend and her teenage daughter shot to death inside their home.
Justice at last in Selonia Smith Reed case
On January 11, 2023, the 21st Judicial Court will sentence Reginald Lathan Reed to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. A jury unanimously returned his guilty verdict at 7:30 on a Friday night after deliberating only four hours on November 18.
Loranger murders in same location, decades apart
At dusk, near a Loranger community called Mixon’s Corner, Sunday, August 27, 1950, a two-man search party found a log truck abandoned. Minutes later, the searchers found the driver’s body in the woods fifteen yards from his vehicle. Twenty-three years earlier, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office discovered another body in the same wooded area and arrested a log truck driver for the murder—the same truck driver killed there in 1950.
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.”