DNA identifies ‘Lady in the Lake’ after 38 years
Nearly four decades after her murder, authorities in St. Tammany Parish say advanced DNA testing has identified the “Lady in the Lake” as Pamela Lee Hupp, a.k.a. Deborah Gail Justice, born in April 1958. According to the sheriff’s office, Hupp was in her early twenties at the time of her murder.
On June 19, 1986, an outdoorsman fly-fishing snagged the woman’s nude body just east of the Interstate 10 twin spans, about fifty yards from the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. An autopsy revealed the woman, who had a plastic bag duct-taped over her head and a 22-pound weight tied to ...
Who killed David Charles Matte and why?
Lori Matte wrote me recently to say her family—including her brother, who is a Louisiana State Trooper—has no clues regarding who killed her 45-year-old brother or why. “Monday, July 19, 2004, was a regular day for David,” Lori wrote. “Everything went fine at work, and he went about his usual business afterward. His neighbors reported that everything appeared normal that evening.”
Bipartisan Bill to help police close unsolved crimes
This matter is too necessary and long overdue. Our politicians need to stop playing political games with people’s lives and make this happen. As another John Kennedy once said, “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.”
Century-old Springfield murder remains unsolved
Friday morning, June 22, 1900, 17-year-old Joseph Ray Ott told his Springfield neighbors he found his 68-year-old aunt in a bloody pulp next to her sewing machine, according to The New Orleans Daily Picayune. The case remains unsolved almost 124 years later.