Firefighters responding to a mobile home fire found a decomposing body inside, and now the owner of the trailer has been arrested, KSLA reports. The Louisiana Office of the State Fire Marshal said that Ronald Griffith, 58, had been living with the body at his trailer in Natchitoches for months. Investigators also found a dog’s …
Louisiana police on Friday arrested a man they say killed a couple he was living with and hid their bodies, WAFB reports. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said that Iva Jane Travis, 54, and Lewis “Payton” Travis, 55, had not been seen or heard from since Valentine’s Day but weren’t reported missing until Thursday. While …
Three people are dead and two more wounded at a Louisiana gun range after a man took offense to be being told his unholstered, loaded gun should be unloaded until he was actually on the range. The man argued with the clerk at Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie and shot two victims inside the establishment, …
Skeletal remains found Thursday in Louisiana belong to a pregnant Texas woman not seen since the end of November, Beaumont Police said Friday. Kayla Nicole Rice, 33, was reported missing in December by out of state relatives, who said she was six months pregnant at the time. Rice’s body was found Thursday in a shallow …
A 57-year-old Louisiana man has been arrested and charged with keeping a woman bound in a locked closet for four days, bringing her out to beat and rape her repeatedly, NOLA.com reports. Darryl Vinson has been charged with attempted second degree murder, first degree rape, aggravated kidnapping, false imprisonment while armed with a weapon, and …
Officers allegedly placed the 16-year-old in a chokehold during last year’s deadly arrest
A 19-year-old Louisiana man has been charged with attempted murder after he reportedly told police he tried to a kill a family member early Wednesday morning because “he was being tormented by a demon that was inside the family member,” according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office. Patrick T. Amos reportedly contacted someone he didn’t …
A Louisiana teen has been charged with the shooting death of his 19-year-old friend, KTBS reports. Dallas Major Edwards, 18, faces a charge of second degree murder in the death of Shane I. Siah early Friday morning, Webster Parish authorities said. Edwards reportedly admitted shooting Siah, firing a shot through a glass door at the …
Three men doing hurricane recovery work in Louisiana were arrested this week in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in a burning vehicle in the western part of the state, according to the State Fire Marshal’s office. Morgan Douglas, 23, has been charged with second degree murder in the case, …
A preliminary autopsy gives “likely drowning” as the cause of death for a Louisiana teen who disappeared in late October and was found dead less than a week later, but questions about the boy’s death and the investigation have led his family to seek an independent autopsy from a company in Texas, ABC13 reports. Quawan …
A now former police officer in southern Louisiana was arrested Friday and charged with multiple child sex charges, including rape. Casey Hoffman, 28, faces seven counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under 13, two counts of producing porn involving juveniles under 13, and three counts of first degree rape of a juvenile under 13, …
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