Unsolved serial shootings still plague I-10
In July, I reported on several potentially related shootings on two New Orleans interstate highways. Three months later, the shootings continue, now listing a honeymoon couple and an off-duty police officer among the victims.
Some murders bring empathy, others do not
Throughout September, two deaths mesmerized our media. Following long periods of waiting and wondering, this week law enforcement officials issued an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie and confirmed that the DNA in the belly of a 12-foot alligator belonged to Timothy Satterlee of Slidell.
Shotgun blast kills Governor’s cousin in Amite
May 11, 1959: “A 35-year-old Independence man is being held in the parish jail on murder charges in the shotgun slaying of Louis Davis, 58, in an Amite bar at 5:40 Saturday evening, May 9, 1959. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Tom Sanders identified the suspect as Claude King.”
Two young girls murdered in Livingston Parish
When newspapers reported Charlotte Sauerwin’s murder in 1988, Johnny and Joyce Stafford came to see me. One year earlier, Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputies found their daughter’s remains in a wooded area near her home, just as they had discovered Charlotte’s body. Johnny told me both girls, near the same age, knew each other in school.