Murder in the Bayou
Subtitle: who killed the women known as the Jeff Davis 8?
By: Ethan Brown
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781476793252; 9781476793269
Subjects: Homicide investigation; Murder; Police corruption; Serial murders; Case studies
Description: Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the town of Jennings, in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. They had all engaged in sex work as a means of survival, and they came to be called the Jeff Davis 8. The investigations into their deaths, originally searching for a serial killer, raised questions about police misconduct and corruption.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245).
Table of contents: title: Loretta; title: Boom and bust; title: Lucky and LeDoux; title: Frankie; title: Ernestine; title: Kristen; title: Whitnei; title: Gunter and Guillory; title: "Death on me": Muggy, Crystal, and Brittney; title: The undoing; title: "Franklin Richard's coming and hell is coming with him"; title: "The past is the past"; title: Coda: Boustany and the Boudreaux Inn; title: Whistle-blower in white robes.