Download or read book Louisiana s Unsolved Mysteries Their Amazing Solutions written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana s Unsolved Mysteries written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder in the Bayou written by Ethan Brown and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Showtime documentary, Murder in the Bayou is a New York Times bestselling chronicle of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Southern parish that is “part murder case, part corruption exposé, and part Louisiana noir” (New York magazine). Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered in Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the Jefferson Davis parish. The women came to be known as the Jeff Davis 8, and local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, stirring a wave of panic across Jennings’ class-divided neighborhoods. The Jeff Davis 8 had been among society’s most vulnerable—impoverished, abused, and mired with mental illness. They engaged in sex work as a means of survival. And their underworld activity frequently occurred at a decrepit motel called the Boudreaux Inn. As the cases went unsolved, the community began to look inward. Rumors of police corruption and evidence tampering, of collusion between street and shield, cast the serial killer theory into doubt. But what was really going on in the humid rooms of the Boudreaux Inn? Why were crimes going unsolved and police officers being indicted? What had the eight women known? And could anything be done do stop the bloodshed? Mixing muckraking research and immersive journalism over the course of a five-year investigation, Ethan Brown reviewed thousands of pages of previously unseen homicide files to posit what happened during each woman’s final hours delivering a true crime tale that is “mesmerizing” (Rolling Stone) and “explosive” (Huffington Post). “Brown is a man on a mission...he gives the victims more respectful attention than they probably got in real life” (The New York Times). “A must-read for true-crime fans” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), with a new afterword, Murder in the Bayou is the story of an American town buckling under the dark forces of poverty, race, and class division—and a lightning rod for justice for the daughters it lost.
Download or read book Murder in the Bayou written by Ethan Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the town of Jennings, in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. They had all engaged in sex work as a means of survival, and they came to be called the Jeff Davis 8. The investigations into their deaths, originally searching for a serial killer, raised questions about police misconduct and corruption.
Download or read book Dark Bayou written by Alan G. Gauthreaux and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary records and, where available, the recollections of those who provide a coherent version of the facts, these mesmerizing tales detail some of the more gruesome episodes: the rise of the first Mafia godfather in the United States; the murder of two New Orleans police chiefs; the brutal murder of a famous New Orleans madam; the story of a respectable young woman who "accidentally" poisoned her younger sister and is a suspect in other family deaths; the ritual killing of blacks in southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas; the mysterious death of a young housewife which still generates debate; and the demise of a local celebrity who believed in his own invincibility.
Download or read book The Levee written by Malcolm Shuman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-crime writer returns home to solve the mystery that haunted his boyhood After witnessing an execution, true-crime writer Colin Douglas starts having nightmares of himself as a boy, alone by the levee, trapped in the mud of the Mississippi River. Each night, the dreams grow worse, becoming horrid recreations of the day his childhood died. In 1959, Colin and three friends went camping on the levee, across from the tumbledown old Windsong plantation. When one of the boys disappeared, Colin went searching for him, and was approaching the old estate when he saw what appeared to be a ghost. The next day, he learned a woman had been murdered in the area—an unsolved crime that has haunted him ever since. Decades later, he attempts to solve this forgotten cold case, raking up something even dirtier than the muddy bottom of the Mississippi.
Download or read book Bloodstained Louisiana written by Alan G. Gauthreaux and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana--where "unwritten law" justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs. Stories include the 1907 kidnapping of seven-year-old Walter Lamana by the New Orleans "Black Hand," the 1912 acquittal of Zea McRee (a woman of "good reputation") in Opelousas, and the 1934 trial and execution of Shreveport's infamous "Butterfly Man."
Download or read book Murder in Louisiana Politics Niki Dupre Mysteries Book 4 written by Jim Riley and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omar Philbin is the typical Louisiana politician, full of promises and bluster. After taking large campaign donations in exchange for empty promises, Omar is found murdered. Niki Dupre is called in to investigate, and she finds no shortage of suspects. Soon, more people meet their demise at the hands of the ruthless killer. Entering a world she doesn't know, Niki Dupre wonders if she has met her match. Can she bring the murderer to justice before more lives are lost?
Download or read book The Axeman of New Orleans written by Miriam C. Davis and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story.
Download or read book More Bayou Justice written by Hl Arledge and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Bayou Justice: South Louisiana Cold Case Files More cold case murder mysteries and true crime histories with mafia hits, prostitution, klan kidnappings, cult rituals, jealous pimps, and missing girls gone wild in the land of gators, gumbo, strippers, hurricanes, mardi gras, and voodoo. More Bayou Justice from investigative journalist and broadcaster HL Arledge Louisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a thirty-year veteran investigative journalist, HL Arledge revisits those tantalizing questions, meeting the state's most colorful characters along the way. This book revisits and updates the most infamous of those Louisiana true crime newspaper reports, offering convincing and controversial conclusions, and deconstructing evidence and widely held beliefs, revisiting each case with fascinating, surprising, and often haunting results.
Download or read book More Bayou Justice written by Hl Arledge and published by Bogart Books. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Bayou Justice: South Louisiana Cold Case Files More cold case murder mysteries and true crime histories with mafia hits, prostitution, klan kidnappings, cult rituals, jealous pimps, and missing girls gone wild in the land of gators, gumbo, strippers, hurricanes, mardi gras, and voodoo. More Bayou Justice from investigative journalist and broadcaster HL Arledge Louisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a thirty-year veteran investigative journalist, HL Arledge revisits those tantalizing questions, meeting the state's most colorful characters along the way. This book revisits and updates the most infamous of those Louisiana true crime newspaper reports, offering convincing and controversial conclusions, and deconstructing evidence and widely held beliefs, revisiting each case with fascinating, surprising, and often haunting results.
Download or read book The Case of the Missing Documents written by Louisiana. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana Ghost Stories Ii written by Jesse L. Wimberly and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans claims to be the most haunted place in America, and the Crescent City has the stories to back it up. Louisiana Ghost Stories II: Lagniappe is the second riveting collection from acclaimed author Jesse Wimberly. These ten tales of the macabre are set in and around New Orleans and are guaranteed to frighten and enlighten. Go down to the crossroads on a moonless night and meet Old Scratch. Eavesdrop in Pirate’s Alley when Jean Lafitte reveals the location of his hidden treasure. Venture into the asylum or the heart of Mardi Gras as Inspector Sterling investigates brutal murders in the city. Get lost with two brothers on a flatboat in the swamp when they meet The Mossgatherer. Rooted in actual events that have taken place over the years, these stories of the supernatural and occult will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, this collection will challenge even the bravest of readers.
Download or read book Louisiana Fever written by D.J. Donaldson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit Franklyn goes to meet a stranger who’s been sending her roses, but he then drops dead at her feet. Andy Broussard learns the man carried a lethal pathogen, and his identity is an absolute shocker. Moreover, Kit isn’t safe as when investigating her mystery suitor, she runs into a cold blooded killer, every bit as deadly.
Download or read book Bayou Justice Southeast Louisiana Cold Case Files written by Hl Arledge and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call them anything but closed cases. Who killed attorneys Margaret Coon and Donna Bahm? Why would someone butcher a 26-year-old bank teller? Did the mafia assassinate Senator Huey Long? What happened to the Grinch who stole shotguns? Louisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a thirty-year veteran investigative journalist, HL Arledge revisits those tantalizing questions, meeting the state's most colorful characters along the way. From voodoo practitioners, mobsters, and train robbers to cult leaders, psychopaths, and crooked politicians, Bayou Justice, Arledge's twice-weekly newspaper column has covered them all. The book Bayou Justice: Southeast Louisiana Cold Case Files revisits and updates the most infamous of those newspaper reports, offering convincing and controversial conclusions, and deconstructing evidence and widely held beliefs, revisiting each case with fascinating, surprising, and often haunting results.
Download or read book Murder in the Bayou Boneyard written by Ellen Byron and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Crozat has the Halloween heebie-jeebies in USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron's howlingly funny sixth Cajun Country mystery. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana. Five local plantation B&Bs host "Pelican's Spooky Past" packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. But all the witchcraft has inevitably conjured something: her B&B guests are being terrified out of town by sightings of the legendary rougarou, a cross between a werewolf and vampire. When, in the Dupois cemetery, someone costumed as a rougarou stumbles onstage during the play--and promptly gives up the ghost, the rougarou mask having been poisoned with strychnine, Maggie is on the case. But as more murders stack up, Maggie fears that Pelican's spooky past has nothing on its bloodcurdling present.
Download or read book Assassin s Blood written by Malcolm Shuman and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging near a mental hospital, Alan Graham and his team come under attack A dying town just a few miles from the Mississippi River, Jackson has a psychiatric hospital, a sprawling forest, and a bloody history. In the summer of 1963, a drifter passed through town in search of work. Not finding any, he returned to New Orleans and then moved on to Dallas, where he assassinated a president. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald, and his ghost is said to haunt the woods of Jackson. Archaeologist Alan Graham has no time for ghost stories, but he can’t deny that there is something evil in this tiny Louisiana town. Digging near the Oswald cabin, he becomes engrossed in the unsolved murder of its original owner, who was killed with the same kind of rifle that killed Kennedy. When a member of Graham’s team is shot during the dig, he must unravel a pair of mysteries—or risk joining Oswald in death.
