re: Crazy crime stories involving people you've known

I went to high school with the sweetest girl ever named Brandy Braselton. After graduation (1994) she apparently became a stripper. I was home from the army visiting the family when her cop boyfriend slit her throat.

He was convicted of manslaughter. He has since been released.

I imagine some OT'ers knew Kyle Manda (of the Manda Meats family) I went to elementary school with him as kid and he hung out time to time with my friends and I in high school. I knew his reputation but he was always chill around us. Then he killed his girlfriend a few years later. Anybody known what happened in his case?

1. A man who was a deacon at my childhood church got into some kind of financial trouble in the late 90s or early 2000s and decided to rob a bank. Didn’t make a clean getaway and had the cops follow him back to the house he shared with his elderly father. He made a move like he was going for a gun and the cops shot him dead in front of his dad.

2. Early 90s, my neighbor’s brother, who at 18 was a steroid user, was having an affair with an older woman in his neighborhood. Speculation is she wanted to end the relationship, and he beat her to death. It was a cold case, then he got drunk and told a friend what he did. He’s doing life without parole because he had to tell somebody what he did.

3. 2015 I was looking for a house and checked one out on Bonnabel. Pulled my truck up the drive to look at the back yard. When I backed up to the front yard, the old man who owned the place was in the yard, armed. I kept my hands visible and explained that I was just looking at the house. That’s the old man who killed Big Lee in 2018. So I guess the house didn’t sell.*

*If I had bought the house, would I have saved Big Lee’s life?

Jack fricking Charley. Now I have an idea of how ID always has new content. The OT has a band of murderers.

When I was a RE agent 20 years ago I listed a house for sale for this guy. He was trying to sell everything he owned including all of his RE for some odd reason. He was murdered about a year later having an estate sale. The crazy thing is the three that murdered him missed the over $10K cash he had made from the sale and hidden in a coffee mug in his RV

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In 2001, John “Jack” Mayeux moved to Ragley to live on forty acres of land he had purchased a few years earlier. Mr. Mayeux was a collector of “lots of things” that he sold to people. By 2007, he “wanted to downsize,” and he planned to sell his property.

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When D.B. awoke on October 9, 2007, the morning of the murder, Ramsdell and the defendant were talking over coffee, saying they “need to go back and do what [they were] going to do.” Ramsdell thought they could wait until Mr. Young left to kill Mr. Mayeux. Ramsdell said “he wanted his stuff,” and the defendant said “he was okay with it.” Ramsdell “said he'd stab [Mr. Mayeux] with this knife, and then he said it would be too bloody. Then he pulled out his pistol from his drawer and said he'd just shoot him.” “Besides [the defendant] saying he was good,” neither D.B. nor the defendant said anything about the plan. They left for Mr. Mayeux's property twenty to thirty minutes later.

Also on that morning, Mr. Young went to Mr. Mayeux's property to load some scrap iron. The defendant, Ramsdell, and D.B. arrived in Ms. Yellott's car and worked with Mr. Mayeux and Mr. Young for about an hour. They were still there when Mr. Young left around 9:00 or 9:30 that morning. At first, the [3 Cir. 3]defendant said he would go with Mr. Young to help him, but Ramsdell said no, they had to go to work. The defendant stayed.

According to D.B., Mr. Mayeux said he had to go to the store, and Ramsdell asked the defendant “to go distract him with some tools.” The defendant walked to where Mr. Mayeux stood at the corner of the barn, and Ramsdell joined them. D.B. got out and stood behind the tractor about forty or fifty feet away, knowing what was about to happen. Ramsdell “pulled out his gun and started shooting.” Ramsdell shot Mr. Mayeux six or seven times in the chest and the back of the head. Mr. Mayeux was eight to ten feet from Ramsdell when he was first shot, and the defendant was five to ten feet from Ramsdell. D.B. thought the defendant “was walking away when [Ramsdell] was shooting.” D.B. saw the defendant do nothing to try to stop Ramsdell.

D.B. heard the “[f]irst couple of shots,” and Mr. Mayeux fell to the ground. Mr. Mayeux fell on his stomach and tried to crawl away from Ramsdell. Ramsdell gave the gun to the defendant to put in the car, but he saw Mr. Mayeux “was still crawling.” He ran to the defendant and got the gun from him, then returned to Mr. Mayeux and shot him twice in the back of the head while standing “[r]ight over him.” Mr. Mayeux did not move after that.

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Went to school with this guy but never really spoke to him. He was beat to death and left on the side of the road


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In Beauregard Parish, a Ragley man is found dead in the road overnight and authorities are searching for clues surrounding his mysterious death.

Chief Deputy Robert McCullough with the Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Department tells 7News that 27-year-old Anthony "Tony" Hebert was found laying in the middle of Camp Edgewood Road Saturday night, a short distance behind his vehicle.

It was a 911 call to the sheriff's department at 10:46 P.M. that alerted authorities to an accident on Camp Edgewood Road. Chief Deputy McCullough says when first responders arrived, Hebert was dead - a result of trauma to his head.

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And some more stuff that I won't share but those are the worse ones I can think of.

A kid I want to high school with named Donald Tilley sunk a knife in a man's chest while trying to rob him at a Church's Fried Chicken in Baton Rouge. Donald ended up dying on Death Row before the state could electrocute him.

The brother of some other kids I went to school with tried to rob a pharmacy in Texas. Too bad for him there was an armed, retired, Texas Ranger there at the same time. The former did not survive his encounter with the Ranger with the Big Iron on his hip and was toe-tagged in the store.

Also was pretty good friends with a guy who's wife was murdered in Mandeville on July 4, 2001 in front of her 4 kids. Samantha Jaume.

It was terrible when we heard the news. Still keep in touch with him and the kids are all doing well, thank God. Can't imagine witnessing your mom get shot in the head at 2, 4, 7, and 9 years old. They didn't catch the crackhead for a few years and my friend was under suspicion for a while.

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St. John boy

He was crazy. Fo sho. Poor cops rolled up on his crazy arse that was ready for showdown. The off-duty cop's perspective is a crazy story.