re: Deaths that have haunted LSU...

No mention of Waving Willy?

There's a link to the story about it on page 4, so apparently it did...

Gillis lived on Burgin Dr with his mother and his wife. My wife’s uncle owns a bunch of houses on burgin including one next door to Gillis. My wife lived there for a time and she used to see Gillis outside. He was always working on stuff under the carport and he never cut the grass. He was a part time copy machine repairman and fixed a copier for my wife’s uncle. She said he was creepy but seemed harmless. It was gillis and his wife worked at the circle k. He walked across Lee drive to St James Place and killed 81yr old Ann Bryan at the retirement home in March 1994. One of his victims was found in the bayou Fontaine’s across highland from burgin behind the Ark pet store. It is a CVS now

The murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, was in my opinion, the most horrific thing to hit LSU. He stabbed her 81 times with an ice pick and her body was so badly bloodied, that the police could not recognize what color hair she had. Also, remember he murdered her at 1:15 in the afternoon.
There were not many women in Baton Rouge or for that matter in the state of Louisiana, who did not carry mace on their key chain.
I will say this; The police report states Charlotte Murray Pace fought back. I still pray for all these women who lost their lives way too early. This one shook me.

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I thought Gillis lived near Kenilworth for some reason...

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Kind of, his house was right off of Lee on the opposite side of the neighborhood Walmart. One of the girls he kidnapped was at Perkins/Quail Run

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I’m surprised no one has said Wally Pontiff.

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I'm surprised you wouldn't read the thread before posting this

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I’m not surprised your wife left you for a high school senior either.

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Don't get all upset at me because you can't read. Your story sounds oddly specific, almost like it hits close to home for you

Sorry daddy, didn’t mean to get too testy.

Some of these hit REALLY close to home:

-- I was at Boys State when the sleepwalker died from the fall. We were all pretty freaked out about it, and each "city" had to have group conversations with their "camp counselors" about it, because a lot of folks figured at the time that it was a suicide... I remember hearing that a girl from our high school (at Girls' State) was very worried that the dead boy was her boyfriend, another guy from my high school who was at Boys' State.

-- Had Melissa Montz as my teacher for Geology 101, in the big lecture room at (IIRC) Atkinson Hall, the year before she went missing. It was very unnerving to see her face on all the flyers around campus; I, in fact, freaked out once when my then-girlfriend (now wife) left my sight for a few minutes in a crowd when we walked to a late season game (it was dark). My girlfriend was not at LSU and did not know about the missing grad student... It also made me really sad when they did find her body and it always bugged me how horribly she died and that somebody got away with it.

-- Was also in school when that jackwagon from Covington had had a few beers and decided to drive his pick-up "off road" at the same time a group of students happened to be smoking a doobie on the Indian Mounds.... For you youngsters who may not know, that's why there are those little brick retaining walls around the mounds now. They weren't there before; all the guy had to do was jump a short curb to drive up the mounds.

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Another poster said he was pure evil -- I agree 100%. Came eye to eye with him at the courthouse -- stared straight through me and I felt the evil. Never experienced that before.

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Spent 6 hours with him in EBRPP to do an eval. A bit freaky for a grad student. (Note: this info was made public in open court testimony, so no privacy expectations here).