Still no justice for Nessa Hartley
Four years ago, one day before her 57th birthday, a masked man shot and killed Janessa Hartley as she dropped a friend two blocks from her own home at a Brookshire Avenue residence in their Sherwood Forest neighborhood. The Baton Rouge Police Department is still looking for her killer today.
Dennis Creel’s murderer still unidentified
A farmer walking his fence line off 4-H Club Road in Denham Springs discovered Dennis Creel’s body on Halloween Day. Someone had tied Creel’s hands behind his back before or after beating him to death.
Police suspected teens died in snuff film
On June 13th, 1967, two St. Tammany Parish 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 the Louisiana-Mississippi border. After interrogating 56 men related to the case, only one suspect remained, a 34-year-old truck driver and men’s magazine photographer named William Carroll Vincent, Jr.
Teen murders unsolved 50 years later
On August 8, 1971, five years before the first Crime Stoppers organization formed, in a front-page story, The Times-Picayune newspaper offered a $2,000 reward for information regarding the murders of two teenage girls four years earlier. Today, over five decades later, the prize remains uncollected