(When Gary Plauché offed Jeff Doucet) I remember this like yesterday ...

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March 16, 1984

Gary Plauché waited at the airport for Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped his son, Jody — then shot him dead as cameras rolled.

Gary Plauché

After Gary Plauché learned that Jeff Doucet had kidnapped and raped his young son Jody, he took deadly revenge right in front of news cameras on March 16, 1984.

On March 16, 1984, a Louisiana father’s unfathomable grief and rage culminated in a homicide that was captured on live television. Gary Plauché’s 11-year-old son Jody had just been returned to him from the clutches of a predator, Jeff Doucet, who had groomed and molested him for more than a year.


Gary Plauché was relieved to have his son back, but he had little faith in the justice system to punish the boy’s kidnapper. So when police marched Jeff Doucet through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport following his arrest, Plauché was waiting — with a gun in his boot.

As news cameras rolled, Gary Plauché shot Jeff Doucet dead. When officers immediately asked him “Why, Gary, why?,” he simply responded, “If somebody did it to your kid, you’d do it, too.”

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Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 hours of community service, receiving no prison time.

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