Selonia Reed’s son accepts his father’s guilt
After decades of denying the facts, Reginald Reed Jr. has accepted the evidence that his father brutally slaughtered his mother in 1987. “Reggie Junior,” who was a child when his mother died, also says he has forgiven his father.
If you hear I committed suicide, I didn’t
Retired safety manager John Barnett was to answer questions Saturday as part of a deposition related to a legal dispute with his former employer, Boeing, related to safety concerns he had raised. He never made it to court. The week before his death, Barnette told friends and family, “If you hear I committed suicide, I didn’t.”
Century-old Springfield murder remains unsolved
Friday morning, June 22, 1900, 17-year-old Joseph Ray Ott told his Springfield neighbors he found his 68-year-old aunt in a bloody pulp next to her sewing machine, according to The New Orleans Daily Picayune. The case remains unsolved almost 124 years later.
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.