Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain, is now out of jail after posting bond today. Strain was indicted and arrested this week on sex crime charges including rape, incest, sexual battery and indecent behavior with a juvenile. Strain made few comments to the press as he left jail but he did say “There are plenty of comments to be made, whenever we go to court.”
An abnormal number of deaths of bottleneck dolphins in the Northern Gulf of Mexico has prompted NOAA Fisheries to declare an Unusual Mortality Event. Jeff Palermo has more.
Investigation Discovery is running a four-hour special on Saturday and Sunday nights on the unsolved murders of eight women in the Jennings area between 2005 and 2009. Ten years later the deaths are unsolved, and ID Executive Producer Liz Massie says they hope their in-depth look can shake loose some leads…
Not all of the deaths have been ruled murders, and no one was ever charged in the case.
Police are on the hunt for 39-year-old Oshay Booker who is believed to have murdered his stepfather, former Winnfield Mayor Ronald “Cloud” Goff in a familial dispute Tuesday. Winn Parish Sheriff Cranford Jordan says they believe the suspect fled to Texas.
The shooting occurred on Spillway Road in Winnfield, and Jordan says they still aren’t certain exactly what provoked the attack.