Did voodoo curse follow lawmen to Kentwood?
After a woman suggested three Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s deputies loaded her stolen treasure on a train and a voodoo priestess cast a spell over them, all three men died of unnatural causes.
Fortune in voodoo gold still missing 136 years later
This column is part one of another chapter from the history of Bloody Tangipahoa. Circumstances revealed in this two-part report suggest members of a Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s posse succumbed to a curse after relieving a voodoo doctor of a fortune in gold.