re: Craziest Real Life Crime Drama

Natalee Holloway. We were the same age. My group of friends went to Jamaica for our senior trip after high school and a group of about 40 kids from her school were there at the same time.

Leopold and Loeb

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The disappearance of Eleanor Parker

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This one was odd. She vanished into thin air. Nobody saw anything. Nobody heard anything. She was there and then she wasn't.

I always hoped they would solve it just to know what happened.

Godchaux's wasn't that great of a neighborhood, even in 1981.

I can name 5 or so that involved just catfish farmers alone here in the delta.

We had the Abney case where the guy was stealing farm equipment and selling it to a scrap yard and his gf/accountant was going to turn him in. He killed her, chopped her up, burned her body in her car, threw the remains in the sunflower river behind his ponds. A neighboring worker on the fish farm next to his saw them one night dragging the car remains to another farmers shop and cover it up with a seine net. This guy became the key witness. Abney had a hired hit man attempt to murder the witness while he was at work, the Hit man pulled up on the ponds and shot the truck all up. Luckily it didn't kill the witness.

Then there was Red Austins illegal casino. Red was a catfish farmer and had a huge underground gambling operation. Local deputies did security for him, had girls working there, high roller type shite. Everyone went there on weekends. Feds finally busted it one day, seized 3 million cash, arrested a bunch of people.

Then there was the time all the catfish processing plants got busted for price fixing. They were meeting each week for dinner and ensuring all of them sold fish at the same price to keep profit levels high since at the time there was no pressure from imports. Some plants were fined between 10-15 million dollars.

Then there was the bearden case where a catfish farmer caught a black employee asleep at work and walked up and shot him under the chin back in 2003. He walked away without so much as a wrist slap because he had so much money and influence then.

Hell right now there's a big deal unfolding in Leland where some Italian guys are running a gambling and drug operation involving some sports bars run by blacks. The Feds just busted up the bars with axes and hammers the other day. The black bar owners involved with the Italian guys are coming up dead. 2 have been murdered already.

Most people don't have a clue the shite that goes on in the delta. It's insulated somehow from the rest of the country...kind of the last bastion of "outlaw country" in America

The Vince Marinello killing his wife with his to-do list was pretty wild.

This has been a great thread so far.

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Derek Todd Lee was a very big deal in Baton Rouge. The rumors going around town were crazy. I remember going by a store that sold pepper spray and the line of females was out of the door

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He was like our Son of Sam.

Another good one was Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. They did a memorable Law & Order SVU episode about them.

Jessica Chambers in northern Mississippi. She was still alive when she got to the hospital in Memphis.

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Derek Todd Lee was a very big deal in Baton Rouge. The rumors going around town were crazy. I remember going by a store that sold pepper spray and the line of females was out of the door

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I had a co-worker out in a field picking mushrooms in his white company truck. Someone called him in and the police brought him in for hours of questioning. This was when everyone still was looking for a white male in a white truck.

Any leads on Mary Ann Fowler abduction in port Allen parking lot?