8 posts tagged Ponchatoula

Halloween cattle mutilation in Ponchatoula

Something mutilated the last of the Allen Ranch livestock on Halloween night, 1988, approximately two months after the television talk shows and tabloids stopped talking about Ponchatoula.

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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.

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Mercy Hospital killer unidentified 66 years later

On a Saturday night, just after nine, April 16, 1955, a man in a Panama hat stepped into a room on the cardiac ward of Mercy Hospital in New Orleans. Inside, he silently crushed a dozing patient’s head with a blunt instrument. Running into the room, Jennie found her husband wheezing, his head bleeding and misshapen. He died five days later.

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Don’t blame the serial killer for Kassie’s murder

Three years ago, Bayou Justice examined the 1999 murder of Ponchatoula native, Kassie Federer. We revisit today because Kassie Lynn Federer’s killer may still walk among us. Police have conveniently blamed a serial killer for her murder, but DNA can be fallible, and even monsters need motive and opportunity.

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