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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]
Two people died in separate crashes in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes that occurred within hours apart early Monday, according to Louisiana State Police.
The Opelousas massacre, which began on September 28, 1868, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States. In the aftermath of the ratification of Louisiana's Constitution of 1868 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, tensions between white Democrats and Black Republicans in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana escalated throughout the ...
Two people have been arrested for throwing puppies in a restaurant’s dumpster over the weekend - and a viral video of the incident shocked social media. ... St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.