44 posts tagged New Orleans

‘Jack the Ripper’ suspect jailed in New Orleans

Scotland Yard identified several key suspects in the infamous White Chapel murders of 1888. Today, few recall that the only American suspected of being “Jack the Ripper” was jailed in New Orleans before moving to London.

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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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New Orleans TV star’s murder remains unsolved

The 7-year-old daughter of a New Orleans television star found her mother, Diddie Cooper, naked and strangled on a Sunday morning in 1952.

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