Is Jennings really as corrupt as implied by Murder in the bayou show

There was never a serial Killer, not sure wtf is going on but cops are corrupt as hell. This reminds me tons of True Detective.

Jeff Davis Parish was about as corrupt as they come when Ricky Edwards was sheriff.

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Are you going to believe the low IQ dipshits in that "documentary" that's made to draw ratings?

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Found the native.

One judge judicial district. 10 years ago or so, the judge was removed from the bench because of some controversy with his secretary’s custody case.

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One judge judicial district. 10 years ago or so, the judge was removed from the bench because of some controversy with his secretary’s custody case.

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Wendell Miller. He's still practicing and ran for DA a few years ago.

Short summary: he had an affair with his secretary (who was married). She got pregnant with his child. She and her husband divorce and Miller presided over the custody case that involved his own biological child.

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Any specific allegations? Because people I know that know him wouldn’t agree. Maybe they were just blind to it.

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I don't know anything about Ricky Edwards specifically, but the corruption issues likely deal with people you're not exactly friends with, so there would never be a reason for you to suspect anything. Unless you get involved in politics (and tried to upset the natural order of kingmaking in the parish), you likely would not be associated with anyone who was a part of corruption. That was typically done with criminals, so you'd only really know (or know people who were part of it) if you ran with criminals.

Jennings and Welsh are both shitholes and full of drugs. Access to the interstate and being between Laffy and LC is a perfect area for runners to offload their shipments from Houston without the eyes of a larger police force. No way the police in either of those towns could stop it if they wanted to. Of course, the theory has long been they don't want to stop it because they are in on it.

Small town in Louisiana, almost assuredly the answer to this is yes

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judge was removed from the bench because of some controversy with his secretary’s custody case.

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Talking about Miller, right? If so, it was a LOT more than just that. I made bank for awhile cranking out motions to disqualify His Honor, though most of those were based on his professional misconduct, prior rulings, etc.

One client had a PI trail him--told me privately there were some pretty significant transgressions discovered. Don't know if those ever came to light--I don't even recall all the specifics all these years later.