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He Never Left Hall and Lindsey Road

Human remains found this May off the same rural road where Keith Madison disappeared in 2021 have been identified as the missing man, in an area searchers had already combed by air and with dogs.

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Jun 23, 2026
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A man went into the woods off Hall and Lindsey Road on May 5 and discovered bones he thought to be human remains.

The road is a short stretch of blacktop northwest of Greensburg, between Louisiana Highways 10 and 43.

It is also the road where Keith Madison Sr. vanished, more than five years before.

Keith Madison of Greensburg

Deputies recovered the remains and sent them to the LSU FACES Lab. With help from the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, technicians gave the bones a name.

The name was Madison’s.

On Monday, the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Office said the cause of death is undetermined. The same office has asked the Louisiana State Police to assist.

After five years, the rural road that swallowed Keith Madison has given him back, and no one can yet say how he died.

I first heard his name in 2022.

His daughter called me and asked Bayou Justice to shine some light on a father who had walked out of his own neighborhood a year earlier and never come back.

He was 46 then, a white man of 5-foot-7…

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