Murdered children bring nightmares, hopefully

Last year, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office charged a Louisiana woman with first-degree murder and obstruction of justice for allegedly killing her boyfriend’s 6-year-old daughter and burying the remains in a bucket in her mother’s front yard.

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Book signing with Audrey Moate discussion

Saturday afternoon at 2, HL Arledge will be speaking at the St. John the Baptist Parish Library, 2920 New Highway 51 in LaPlace, recounting the murder of Thomas Hotard and the disappearance of Audrey Moate. He will also be signing books.

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Cartel suspected in missing family case

The New Orleans Police Department reported this week that a family of four—forced from their home by a Honduran drug cartel—boarded a Greyhound in New Orleans two months ago and vanished before reaching their destination.

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Minnie Wallace: Gold Digger or Murderess?

On April 19, 1914, The Times-Picayune reported that New Orleans-born heiress Minnie Wallace inherited one-fourth of the estate of Chicago businessman, financier, and railroad magnate Delancey Horton Louderbach after the man died suddenly from “accidentally swallowing poison.” Coincidentally, years earlier, two of “Black Widow” Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham’s husbands died the same way.

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