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Bayou Justice with HL Arledge

July 2026

The First Lie I Ever Told You
This week I'm publishing my first novel under the pen name Thomas Glock, so nobody ever mistakes a crime I invented for one that really happened.
 • HL Arledge
The man who found the bodies
A silenced .22 killed Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret in their Biloxi home in 1987, on orders that traced back to a convict's trust account…
 • HL Arledge
Signal 30 - New Orleans
Kim Groves filed a brutality complaint against a New Orleans police officer, and he ordered her murdered over his cell phone while the FBI's wire ran.
 • HL Arledge
The kid Stormy called Felix
In 1955, a New Orleans stripper who fought an impostor and a lawsuit over her own stage name, hired a poor, awkward teenage sweeper boy who called…
 • HL Arledge
That Stormy Weather Girl
She told reporters her name was Stacey Lawrence, of Philadelphia; it was actually Helen Spellman, a child bride from Alabama hiding from the mob.
 • HL Arledge
The Girl in the Chifforobe
A Phenix City judge married off a fourteen-year-old girl to keep her from the mob in 1941; three years later, hidden inside a closet, she watched a hit…
 • HL Arledge
This Guy Is a Legend
A 93-year-old Bourbon Street con man ran a rigged tourist scam that took in a million dollars a year with New Orleans police allegedly on his payroll…
 • HL Arledge
Last Call at the Latin Quarter
On New Year's Day 1950, a visitor from Nashville named Robert Dunn Jr. died of knock-out drops in a Bourbon Street club, and the city's answer was a…
 • HL Arledge

June 2026

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