7 posts tagged Washington Parish

Live Broadcast Sunday Night

Thanks for joining us for Sunday night's Bayou Justice livestream (August 6, 2023 at 6:PM CST) on YouTube. We got much positive feedback and will continue to dive into these cold case crimes next Sunday night.

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Who killed Buffy and Momma McKenzie?

In the early morning hours of May 23, 1992, in the hilltop community of Angie, outside Pine, Louisiana, Washington Parish Justice of the Peace James McKenzie returned home from a fox hunting trip to find the bodies of his wife and daughter lifeless in the driveway.

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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

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Lost letter frees man, prompts civil rights march

The surprise court introduction of a letter Friday morning, July 14, 1967, resulted later that day in the acquittal of J. W. Copling, Jr., a man standing trial for the murder of Clarence Trigg one year earlier, July 30, 1966, on a Saturday evening in Bogalusa. The defendant had attorney Ossie Brown to thank for his freedom.

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