DNA identifies victim in Slidell cold case
This week, several readers contacted me asking if authorities had identified Slidell’s Lady in the Lake. Unfortunately, the answer is no. However, a similar cold case is now one step closer to being resolved due to DNA.
Laughing Bandit betrayed by Pumpkin Center nurse
Baton Rouge Police last captured William Aeby, a reputed escape artist, womanizer, and holdup man on May 12, 1956, but his most publicized arrest came during Mardi Gras 1949. That week, the Pumpkin Center girlfriend of the “Laughing Garage Bandit” helped New Orleans police nab him in an arranged hotel rendezvous.
Rapper to receive clemency in Slidell murder
On Monday, February 22, 2021, The Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole voted unanimously to grant clemency to a New Orleans entertainer prosecuted for manslaughter 20 years ago by disgraced District Attorney Walter Reed. Governor John Bel Edwards must now decide whether to accept the board’s recommendation and set the man free.
Police suspected teens died in snuff film
On June 13th, 1967, two St. Tammany Parish fishermen found Patricia Ann Purcell and Joyce Ellen Galloway’s bodies. Someone had savagely beaten the 17-year-old girls to death, leaving them nude, floating in the East Pearl River near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. After interrogating 56 men related to the case, only one suspect remained, a 34-year-old truck driver and men’s magazine photographer named William Carroll Vincent, Jr.