Did Albany Light seek Louisiana’s missing?
According to ritual, we were to park in a specific spot, kill the automobile’s engine, and flash the headlights three times. The legend said a spooky glowing cloud would emerge from the surrounding woods within a half hour.
Camping bandit eludes Livingston Parish Sheriff
In Albany, Louisiana, on a Wednesday morning, February 15, 1939, Livingston Parish Deputies Willie Scivicque and P. R. Erwin stopped two couples driving stolen vehicles on the Hammond-Baton Rouge Highway. The lead vehicle, a Ford pickup truck, towed a camper trailer, filled with stolen goods.
Assassination witness remembers Faller ambush
On the evening of January 23, 1962, assassins shot and killed a Louisiana public official in Livingston Parish. On Highway 42 near Springville, two or more conspirators ambushed 48-year-old Marketing Commission Executive Secretary Marvin Faller, unaware that two men witnessed the operation.
Livingston bushwhack slaying remains unsolved
In 1961, Governor Jimmy Davis’ number two man in the Louisiana Department of Agriculture killed another man for trespassing on his property east of Tickfaw. However, before the state official stood trial for manslaughter, a gunman killed him on a highway south of Livingston.