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In mid-December, Malveaux was brought to trial in Evangeline Parish to face murder charges in the Smith case. During the proceedings, he recanted claims he had made during his police interrogation and claimed that he had actually killed her in St. Landry Parish, which prompted further investigations to verify his claims. [14]
The first was in December 1997, when he strangled 20-year-old Gary Pierre, who had recently been arrested for drug trafficking. His body was found fully clothed, with no signs of physical trauma or drugs found in his system. The second killing occurred on July 31, 1998, when he killed 38-year-old Larry Ranson, a drug-addicted vagrant.
Louis Rousseau was hanged on June 8, 1877, in what was the first execution of a white man in St. Landry parish in 30 years. In another well known case, a John Sonnier eluded capture for nine years after being indicted on two counts of murder in 1871. Several years after his indictment, Sonnier returned to St. Landry Parish. He narrowly escaped ...
A son who held his parent's alleged murderer at gunpoint is opening up about his final moments with his mother and father. T.D. Gribble recalled how he embraced his mom Paula, 76, and kissed the ...
The offender has knowingly killed two or more persons in a series of separate incidents. Treason is also a capital crime in Louisiana. The state formerly also allowed execution for the aggravated rape of a victim under the age of 12. The Supreme Court, however, ruled it unconstitutional on June 25, 2008 in Kennedy v.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office received a call from the mother Nov. 5, who said her son was kidnapped near a highway in Eunice − a city about 80 miles from Baton Rouge.
Landry, who apparently caught wind of the post, was dismayed that authorities had posted an unflattering photo of her and made sure they knew. "That picture ugly," she wrote in response.