4 posts tagged Kentwood

Karma finds killer in Kentwood after 7 years

Friday, April 1, 1927, St. Helena Parish Sheriff W. N. Nettles was the victim of a rather severe April Fool’s Day trick. That morning, Howard Redman, a laborer working for affluent dairyman Robert R. Travis, confessed to the murder of his brother-in-law, John Brecheen.

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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.

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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.

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Sherlock Holmes murder suspect in Kentwood

Marshall D. A. Fendalson told reporters before the murder charge, Claude Holmes relished the thought that he could be related to the famous detective. Studying his famous “ancestor,” Holmes took up pipe smoking and offered his services to law enforcement as a consulting detective.

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