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Speaker 1: I walk straight line shackle change, Oh someome gird, it's

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calling my name. There is no mercy and it's been

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a tentery juice as the huge stream game Wrangle three.

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Speaker 2: Come in by me to die.

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Speaker 1: Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Speaker 2: And when the girl as I s Hey everyone, and

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welcome back to Bloody Angola, A podcast one hundred and

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forty two years in the making, the complete story of

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America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman, and today I have

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got one hell of a story to tell you that

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took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, primarily between nineteen ninety

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one and nineteen ninety six, and the crimes of who

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became known as the Storyville slagh. And before we get

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into it, I want to give you a little history

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on why this part of New Orleans is called Storyville. So,

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from eighteen ninety seven to nineteen seventeen, New Orleans established

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what was known as a centralized prostitution district believe it

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or not, known as Storyville. It was named after the

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city Alderman Sidney Story who sponsored the creation of the district,

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and Storyville is bordered by Ibberville Basin Saint Louis and

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North Robertson Streets in New Orleans. So, on July twenty

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second of nineteen ninety one, a known prostitute in the

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Algiers area of New Orleans, a young black woman known

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only as Brenda. She goes into the police station and

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she reports an assault. She tells police that a man

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picked her up after having a show conversation with her.

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He strangled her to the point that she actually lost consciousness. Now,

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when she awoke, she was half naked under a pile

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of tires near Memorial Park Drive in Nevada Streets in

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New Orleans. She was able to give police a description

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which was used to create a composite sketch, and she

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described this man as a muscular, well dressed, middle aged

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black male who drove a dark colored vehicle similar to

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a Buick Regal or Monte Carlo. So police get this information,

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but honestly, not a whole lot is done at this point.

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It's New Orleans, and unfortunately, in the lifestyle that Brendo

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was living, these things happened more often than you may think,

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and to police, I'm sure it was one of hundreds

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of assaults going on at that particular time in New Orleans,

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nothing really stood out about it. Then on August fourth

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of nineteen ninety one, just twelve days later, the body

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of a seventeen year old girl by the name of

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Danielle Britton is found in a ditch, and it wasn't

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far from where Brenda had been assaulted and strangled. Her

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body was covered with garbage, and an autopsy determined that

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the teen had been beaten and strangled to death. Just

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shortly before her murder, Britain had dropped out of school,

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and just shortly before her body was discovered, she was

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seen in a New Orleans bar next to an unknown man.

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And it's important to note there was nothing found in

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Danielle Bretton's background that indicated she was involved in any

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kind of prostitution, so a little bit different than the

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first murder, but some simularities were surfacing between these two females. First,

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they were left obviously in very close proximity to each other,

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They were both strangled, they were both placed under piles

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of trash or tires in Brenda's case, and the crimes

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took place just twelve days a part. So we move

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on to September third of nineteen ninety one, About a

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month later, and twenty one year old Tyra Tassam was

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found strangled to death. Now she had a criminal record

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for drug possession and she was a mother of three.

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Here again more similarities a high risk lifestyle. The body

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was found in the same general area, the timing less

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than a month from the Britain murder and just over

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a month from the Brenda assault, and the method of

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killing was the same. So at this point you would

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think police may realize they have a problem. But again,

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these are not ladies from a wealthy area of New Orleans,

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and sadly, the attention is just not the same. The

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sense of urgency is not there, not from the media

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or the police by this time. Then, on November twenty

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first of nineteen ninety one, the body of thirty seven

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year old Regina Ono is discovered, also a mother of

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three with multiple prostitution arrest. Her autopsy was performed and

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again the cause of death was strangulation. It was also

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noted in the autopsy that just prior to the death

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she had taken a large dose of cocaine. We move

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on this time to December fourteenth of nineteen ninety one,

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and skeletal remains are found in a ditch near a highway. Now,

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this is just three weeks after the body of Regina

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Ono is discovered. The autopsy established that the remains belonged

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to that of a twenty year old young black girl

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who at the time was in her early twenties and

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she was approximately five feet one inch tall. Now, despite

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having some characteristics that stood out, such as she had

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strongly protruding front teeth, she went unidentified. The victim is

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referred to as Jane Doe number one and presumably was

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strangled and just found a short distance from Danielle Britton's body.

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So let's talk about this for a second. In six

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months time, you have four dead women in one who

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was nearly killed, all found in the same general area,

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as it relates to the manner and death, all the

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same strangulation. So what are the police doing and what

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was the public reaction? Like, surely everyone has to be

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talking about this in the New Orleans area, right, Well, No,

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as a matter of fact, it's not really anything that

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anyone at this point is discussing. And this is really

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pre Internet. So while in today's world, Facebook would be

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absolutely lit up with all of these martyrs taking place,

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it seemed that no one was talking about this in

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the early nineties, and guess what, a new year didn't

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change much. On January fourth of nineteen ninety two, the

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body of twenty nine year old Lydia Madison is found

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in a ditch under a highway overpass. Lydia also had

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several convictions for drug related charges, and like the other women,

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strangulation was deemed the cause of death. Then there was

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a little bit of a break but on June tewod

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of nineteen ninety two, twenty five year old George William's

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body was found in the Labranch Wetlands area of Saint

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Charles Parish. Now, again the autopes he showed he had

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been strangled. Now this would not have matched the killers

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mo completely. George was a man, right however, he was

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a transgender and without going into too much detail on this,

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he looked like a female and had some female features,

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so it's likely that the Storyville slayer, whoever it is,

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may not have realized this was a man. George also

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lived a very high risk lifestyle. He had prior rests

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for drugs and robbery, and was employed as an exotic

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dancer at in New Orleans strip club, and the killer

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did not wait long to strike again a month later.

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As a matter of fact, on July twenty fifth of

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nineteen ninety two, the body of Noah Filson is found

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in the waters of a canal near I fifty five,

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and in this case there were a lot of commonalties

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to the death of George Williams the prior month. Noah

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was also a transgender and also worked at a New

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Orleans strip club under the name Brenda Bewitched. Then two

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months later, on September twenty first of nineteen ninety two,

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the remains of twenty nine year old Regretta Martin are

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discovered in the waters of yet another canal near a

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highway in the New Orleans area, this time in the

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town of Boutet. Regretta was a mother of three who

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had previous arrest and again high risk lifestyle with prostitution,

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and her autopsy showed her cause of death as a

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drug overdose. And incidentally, many of the victims that we've

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discussed so far had high levels of drugs in their

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system at the time of death. But yet again, any

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similarities in the way these victims were killed and in

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the manner in which these bodies were dumped. So here

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we are nearing the end of nineteen ninety two, and

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you have at this point seven people dead and one

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nearly killed in the New Orleans area, all living similar lifestyles,

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and something at this point absolutely crazy happens. Remember the

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first victim that actually survived I told you about at

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the beginning, Brenda, Well, she actually runs into her attacker

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in a grocery store nearly two years after her attack.

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This was on October twenty fourth of nineteen ninety two.

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An article came out in the New Orleans paper, and

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here's the highlights from that article. It reads, an unidentified man,

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believed to be a possible the serial killer of at

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least four New Orleans women, was spotted in Algiers recently

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by a woman who survived an attack. The young woman

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left for dead on July twenty second, nineteen ninety one,

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known as Brenda, saw her attacker in a grocery store

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parking lot last week. When he saw that she recognized him,

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he fled. Police said, can you imagine that? And what

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are the chances? It goes on to read. Crime Stoppers

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announced rewards of up to five thousand dollars for the

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arrest and indictment of the alleged killer. Police said they

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are investigating whether the same man may have murdered yet

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another woman, Regretta Martin, who was found dead in Saint

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Charles Parish. Her decomposed body was found September twenty first

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Police said of nineteen ninety two. Decomposition has prevented the

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authorities from determining how she died or if she was

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a victim of foul play. Assistant Police Superintendent and Twine

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Sacks said investigators are not sure if the deaths are related,

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but similarities include the ages of the women, their hangouts,

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the fact that their bodies were found dumped almost nude,

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and that the women were either strangled or suffocated. Police

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are circulating a composite sketch of the suspect, who is

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described as black, broad shouldered, in his thirties, about five

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feet eight inches tall. Police said he has been seen

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in an old model brown Chevrolet Nova or blue Buick Regal,

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or a green car. All of the victims have been poor,

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black women with slim to medium builds in the New

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Orleans area, and some have frequented the same bars. Two

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of the victims were found to have cocaine in their systems,

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and Sacks believes the suspect is targeting young women he

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believes to be either prostitutes, drug users, or both. Police

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did not provide any evidence to show that the victims

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were prostitutes or drug users, however, So that's how that

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article read. And at this point you would think, Okay,

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the police are on it, right, I mean, I guess

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they were. I guess they were doing what they could.

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didn't seem to have a whole lot of a sense

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of urgency that you would think it would have. Yes,

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the composite sketches they were being circulated, but this is

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still the early nineties. DNA was just starting to be understood,

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really in its infancy at this point, and police just

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didn't have a ton to go on. So a few

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months pass, and then on February twentieth of nineteen ninety three,

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the skeletal remains of thirty year old Sheryl Lewis are

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discovered yet again in the waters of a canal, this

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time off a highway near Hanville, which is on the

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outskirts of New Orleans. Now. While when investigating her death,

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police learned that she was seen alive on February second

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of nineteen ninety three, so just three weeks earlier, getting

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into the car of an unidentified white male. Cheryl's autopsy

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did not report a cause of death. Her body was

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very badly decomposed, it had been in a canal for

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nearly a month before she was found, but it was

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discovered that she was very drugged up with both cocaine

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and meth amphetamine. Then the very next day, on February

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twenty first of nineteen ninety three, the body of forty

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two year old Delores Matt was found in the waters

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off of a canal near a highway not far from

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where Cheryl Lewis was murdered. She had been strangled, and

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although she had no prior history of drugs, a large

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amount of cocaine was found in her system. Her body

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had only been in the water for twelve hours when

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she was found. And that's an important movement in this case,

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if you will. This tells me that this serial killer,

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by this point, he's doing what all serial killers do.

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He's getting cocky, he's getting very arrogant. Think of the

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arrogance it takes when just twenty four hours prior twelve hours.

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In fact, after an investigation is started into a body

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found in a neighboring canal is taking place, you dump

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another body close by. Guaranteed that serial killer knew that

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body had been found just twenty four hours before. It

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was almost like he was laughing at the police. By

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this time, this guy is begging for attention. So let's

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jump to February fourth of nineteen ninety four too. Off

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duty Saint Charles Perry deputies they stumble upon a guy

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on the same stretch of road where Sheryl Lewis remains

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had been discovered. It was late at night, it was

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dark in the car, which was a cab, just seemed suspicious.

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So the two off duty policemen they want to get

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a closer look see what's going on, and they get

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out of their vehicle. They look inside of that cab

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and they see a man sitting in the driver's seat masturbating.

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So the deputies they get the driver, who was partially undressed,

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to exit the vehicle. The driver he produces a valid

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Louisiana driver's license that identified him as Russell Elwood, and

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Elwood tells the deputies that he was there to change

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the oil and breaks in his car, and they said, well,

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can we search your car? He says, sure. The deputies

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search the car. However they don't find motor oil, don't

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find oil changing supplies, they don't find oil filters, all

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the things you need. And then he also said he

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was working on his brakes and don't find brake pads,

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none of that in his vehicle. Obviously he was lying.

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He also didn't contain any flashlight or anything like that

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that he would have had to have to make those

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necessary repairs to his vehicle in an unlit area at night.

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So if you don't have a flashlight, you're not going

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to park in the pitch dark to do this work.

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That much is obvious. Now I bring up this guy

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because this situation right here that I just mentioned is

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going to play a big part in the story later on.

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So for now, I want you to put this particular

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discovery in your back pocket, just kind of in the

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back of your mind somewhere, And we're going to get

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a February fifth of nineteen ninety four, and we're going

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to get a Saint John the Baptist parish, another parish

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just on the outskirts of New Orleans, and the skeletal

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remains that were found and later determined to be that

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of a twenty five to thirty five year old female

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who was determined to have been strangled to death. Unfortunately,

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due to decomposition, she was never identified and she is

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listed as Jane Doe number two. Then, on February tenth,

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just five days later of nineteen ninety four, more skeletal

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remains are found, this time determined to be a fifteen

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year old girl. Again, However, due to extreme decomposition, she

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remained unidentified and is listed as Jane Doe number three.

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Two days later, on February thirteenth of nineteen ninety four,

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the body of a twenty five year old by the

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name of Stephanie Murray is found in a SMA i'm

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all pond near the Bonna Carey Spillway in New Orleans.

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Then two days after that, on February fifteenth of nineteen

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ninety four, the skeletal remains of another young girl are found.

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Her identity was never ascertained and she became known as

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Jane Doe number four. So in February of nineteen ninety

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four alone, four more dead women are found, and to

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tell you how underreported and little known all of this was.

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In February of nineteen ninety four, I was nineteen years old,

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very in touch with the news, et cetera, and like

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most nineteen year olds at that time, I probably went

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to New Orleans with friends to party on Bourbon Street

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at least once a month, and knew nothing about any

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of this, not one word of it. And also, incidentally,

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if you're keeping count, by this time, I have read

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you off twelve victims that died and one victim that

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barely lived, and no one is talking about it that

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I was aware of. But it didn't stop there. On

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April second of nineteen ninety four, two sets of skeletal

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remains are found in canals on the very same day,

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later determined as one set belonging to a young female

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and another set belonging to that of a young male. Now,

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due to the extreme composition from being left in those canals,

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neither could be identified, and they are referred to as

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Jane Doe number five in John Doe number one. And

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let's talk about that for a second. As these deaths

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became more and more frequent, if you notice, the killer

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starts putting these victims in canals. Why do you think

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that is well, I would submit to you just my

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opinion that he's realizing they're struggling to identify these victims

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when they find them in canals. He's figured out the

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decomposition speeds up when they're in canals, and in a

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lot of cases they were finding just bones. So obviously

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it's harder to find victims when you dump them in

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the middle of nowhere in the swamps of South Louisiana.

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But we'll move on. On July third of nineteen ninety four,

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the body of thirty two year old Michelle Foster was

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found after she was reported missing from New Orleans just

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a few days prior. And then on October nineteenth of

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nineteen ninety four, the skeletal remains of yet another woman

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is found in a wooded area near a highway within

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the limits of Bridge City, Louisiana, which is just outside

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the New Orleans area. Those remains were later found to

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be that of twenty eight year old Stephanie Lewis, who,

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unlike the prior victims, had no criminal record at all.

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So we're going to move forward a couple of months,

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and I'm going to bring you to December ninth of

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nineteen ninety four, and I'm gonna mention another name for

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you to keep in the back of your mind, and

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that is of NOPD officer Victor Gant. Now, on this day,

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a woman by the name of Sharon Robinson, who was

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Gant's girlfriend, she goes into the NPD and she reports

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that Gant beat her. Now remember this, this is a

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police officer forth had department. According to the statement, Gant

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punched her in the face and broke her nose. Now Gant,

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of course, he denies this allegation, and he said he

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just pushed her during an argument in that she fell

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and hit her nose on a chair. But Gant had

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a problem because her children actually witnessed the entire thing

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and they cooborated their mother's story in an interview with police.

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Even the er doctor who treated miss Robinson said that

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this type of break was a direct result of a

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beating and not her nose hitting a chair. In early

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nineteen ninety five, because Gant was a police officer and NOPD,

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he has to go in front of a disciplinary committee

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on these accusations. And it's during that time that they

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scheduled testimony for later on in the year from several

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key witnesses, including Sharon Robinson. In the meantime, on January

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twenty second of nineteen ninety five, the body of twenty

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nine year old Wanda Ford is found in a swamp

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outside of New Orleans near I fifty five. Now, like

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nearly all of the murders so far that I've told

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you about, she had a lengthy criminal record and a

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long history of drug abuse. Then the very next day,

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January twenty third of nineteen ninety five, the body of

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twenty nine year old Sandra Warner is found in Saint

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John the Baptist Parish. Two days later, on January twenty

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fifth of nineteen ninety five, the remains of Henry Calvin,

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who had gone missing months earlier in New Orleans, is found. Then,

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on March twenty fourth of nineteen ninety five, more skeletal

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remains found under an overpass in Tangipahoa Parish, which is

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about thirty minutes from New Orleans. Those remains are identified

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as those of Linda Debetedetto. So the next few months

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are quiet until a major break occurs in this case,

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on April thirtieth of nineteen ninety five, two local fishermen

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find the body of a woman in a swampy area

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off I fifty five, just twenty minutes from New Orleans.

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When officers arrive on the scene, they discover a footprint

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from a woman's training shoe next to the body, and

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they see a wad of chewing tobacco nearby. Rigor mortis,

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which typically occurs Approximpately twelve hours after death, was still

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in its early stages, and that told detectives the victim

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had not been in the area long. The lead detective stated,

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at the time, we had no trace of who she was.

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We later found out that she was Karing Ivister, white female,

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thirty years of age, and the cause of death was

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asphyxia due to suffocation. You could see in the autopsy report.

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They had made notes of some abrasions on her neck

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where she had been grabbed by someone and choked. But

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get ready for this. Roughly three hours after Ivester's body

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was found, detectives were notified another body had been discovered

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about a mile south of Ivesters. The body was face

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down in a shallow body of water next to an

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I fifty five off ramp. The victim, a twenty eight

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year old woman was fully dressed, which was kind of

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rare in these murder cases that were occurring in New

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Orleans at that time. Usually they were nude or partially nude.

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But this victim was fully dressed, clad in a uniform

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from Harris New Orleans Casino in a hotel, and she

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was wearing an ID badge that said her name was

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Sharon Robinson. That's right, the same Sharon Robinson that filed

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that abuse complaint against her then boyfriend NOPD police officer

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Victor Gant in nineteen ninety four. Now, Robinson's cause of

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death was listed as a drowning, and police theorized her

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killer stood behind her and held her head underwater. And

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if you have any thoughts of the killings being coincidental, don't.

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Detectives discovered Robinson was wearing woman's training shoes with trail

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had the match that footprint I told you about next

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to Ivester's body, meaning Robinson was still alive in standing

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when Ivester was killed. And incidentally, Ivester and Robinson were

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good friends. So at this point, Gant, considering his history

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with Robinson, and especially considering she has yet to testify

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against him in that NPB hearing couple that with the

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fact that he not only personally knew Ivest, but according

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to family and friends' statements, had a personal grudge against Syvester.

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And well, Victor Gant has a major problem. So to

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give you a little more detail regarding these two killings

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in the manner in which they were killed. Karen Ivester's

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boyfriend he had reported that he last saw Karen on

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April twenty ninth at ten o'clock PM, when she was

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going to work in a booth. Now, Detective A. Wayne Schaeffer,

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when he was asked about this, he stated, the boyfriend,

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nor anyone else investigating the case knew what kind of

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booth she was talking about, specifically, only that she told

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her boyfriend, I can make fifty dollars if I work

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the booth. Now. Karen's body was also found nude in

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that swampy canal, and an autopsy showed, as I told

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you that the cause of death was suffocation due to

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asphixia strangulation. Notes of some of the abrasions around her

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neck indicated that she was grabbed and choked, And as

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I mentioned that what of chewing tobacco? And I keep

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bringing that up for a reason. It was found near

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her body. Now, in regards to Sharon Robinson and her

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autopsy listed drowning as her death, and of course police

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they question Gant about this and they request his DNA

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and the hope was that chewing tobacco still had the

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DNA on it and they can match that to Gan.

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That would place him at the actual scene where the

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bodies were found and subsequently make the case just about bulletproof.

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But again, this is nineteen ninety five. DNA is not

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what it is today. In the processing of DNA, definitely

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not what it is today, even working hours on end

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every single day, it could take many months to get

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a full profile and then match that to Gan. So

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on May one of nineteen ninety five, after some twenty

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two bodies are found and one nearly killed woman are discovered,

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the NOPD finally forms a task force to find and

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bring to justice what will become known as the Storyville Slayer.

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But the Storyville Slayer ain't done yet. Just six days

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after that task force is formed, on May sixth of

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nineteen ninety five, the body of thirty nine year old

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Sandra Williams is found on a boulevard in New Orleans,

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cause of death strangulation. So they are still continuing to

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stack up. And if you think this story is unbelievable already,

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you ain't heard nothing yet. Next week we wrap it up,

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so look for that. Thank you so much for lestening

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Jim Chapman for Bloody Angola, a podcast one forty two

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years and making the complete story of America's bloodiest present.

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Speaker 1: Peace a wall Street line, shackle Chaine, who's gourd? It's

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calling my name? There is no mercy and this being

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a tentery juice says the huge string game Rango three.

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Speaker 2: I'm here behind.

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Speaker 1: By me to die inside these walls, inside the wild

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and when the walks, I'm no, it's ould bloody anglelder,

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ohbody angle