re: HOME INVASION on Highland Rd - Bodies of homeowners found at Hammond truck stop

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retarded

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Victim's red car pulled in first and then white car pulled in after

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On Highland Road across from Duplantier Street, the front door of a green and white house is lit up with a warm yellow light. Through the glass panels, Suzanne Duplantier wraps gifts for her 4-year-old grandson, Stephen. Her husband of 38 years, Denis “Bubbie” Duplantier, talks on the phone as NASCAR is muted on the living room television. The pictures of their three daughters, now grown, are placed in all corners of the house. She turns to her husband and twists the simple gold band around her finger.

“He had a man’s ring with a diamond in it that he used to wear,” Suzanne Duplantier, 59, said. “He kept slipping it on and off my finger and telling me to marry him. I always joked it off.”

On December 29, 1966, Suzanne Duplantier kept the ring on, and they were married seven months later.
“We met my senior year of college at LSU,” she said. “He needed an extra course, and Bubbie registered for a geography class I was in because it was 80 girls to four boys.”

Suzanne Duplantier graduated the University with a degree in elementary education, and Bubbie Duplantier, 60, left college for a job with Nichols construction. In 1976, they moved into the house in which they still live, across from the home where Mr. Duplantier grew up.
Before the house, three kids, three grandsons and a Jack Russell Terrier, Bubbie Duplantier and Suzanne Payne were just college students having fun.

“I remember he stood me up on our first date,” Suzanne Duplantier said. “It was raining really hard. I had never been stood up before, so of course I just went out with someone else.”

Nonetheless, Susie asked Bubbie out the following weekend to a football game where she was a cheerleader.
“I tried to get on the field to tell her something,” he said. “But they thugged me out, and all I could tell her was that the police weren’t going to let me stay there with her.”

Through class, they began to share friends, and eventually came to know each other’s families. That December, Bubbie followed Suzanne to Alexandria for New Years Eve, where he announced they were engaged.
“I remember one girl in particular standing there crying when he told her we were going to be married,” Suzanne Duplantier said.

Barbecues with family and friends, summer vacations, bridge with the girls and poker with the guys became routine.

“The summer before that semester, I went to a fortune teller in Texas, and she told me I would fall in love with someone with a B in his name,” she said. “But I fell in love with him because I had so much fun with him. He makes me laugh even now.”

Like many couples, the Duplantier’s have had bad times, but admit that communicating and never threatening each other with divorce has kept them together.

“Who knows why anyone falls in love?” Bubbie Duplantier said. “We gave each other space. I did a lot of hunting and fishing, that’s the secret to our success.”
After 29 years in their Highland Road home, Suzanne Duplantier still enjoys her life there.

“People say I must have gotten a lobotomy the day I got married to be able to put up with him,” she said. “But really he has a heart of gold, he’s a good dancer — and I may not have always liked him, but I’ve always loved him.”

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I think they said Sunday afternoon. Victim's red car pulled in first and then white car pulled in after. Suspects' car has Louisiana license plate.

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Total sociopath.

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