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Potential murder cover up by police in Jarreau?

Posted on 5/25/22 at 10:56 pm
Posted by TDsngumbo
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Posted on 5/25/22 at 10:56 pm
Anyone see this story? Sure seems fishy to me.

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JARREAU - It's Aug. 1, 2008. Forty-eight-year-old Jarreau resident Kim Womack hasn't been heard from in three days. "[The landlords] went to check on her. The front door was locked, so they used their key to get into the back door, and they found her body in a back bedroom," explains Womack's daughter Kathryn Simpson. Bloody, bruised and naked, investigators converged on her home. Simpson and the rest of the family waited to know what happened. "Monday after the autopsy was done, Point Coupee Sheriff's department called my family and I to give us answers. And they told us the autopsy the previous day showed conclusively that my mom died in an accident when she slipped and fell and hit her head." According to Simpson, their theory was that Womack had dropped some chocolate syrup, slipped in it, and fatally injured herself. Simpson had no reason to doubt them until she got a call from the coroner himself. "He was very honest with me. He said this: 'I declared this a homicide when I got to the scene, and I declared this a homicide again at autopsy,' and he did tell me that. He did not specify who, but he did tell me that someone, some official, perhaps from the police department, had come to visit him and tried to strong-arm him into changing his findings from homicide to accident. But he refused." Since then, Simpson has been fighting tooth and nail to find out what really happened to her mother, but since she was cremated and no evidence was collected at the scene, it's been impossible. She says Pointe Coupee officials fought her at every opportunity, and even she began to doubt herself until she saw the photos of her mother's body. "I was shocked to see how her eyes looked like softballs, and I knew that wasn't lividity because she was on her back. I was shocked to see the number of bruises all over her body and all the cuts; and in particular the wound on her forehead was so significant to me." Additional photos of her home show lots of it in disarray, possibly indicating a struggle. Simpson has a few theories of what happened and what may have caused what she calls a cover-up. She says before she died, her mother told people she was dating a sheriff's deputy. It wasn't until after her funeral they found out he was married. In 2020, when Renee Thibodeaux became sheriff, he told Simpson they would look into the case again. So far, there have been no updates. "First and foremost, I very much want to know who killed my mother. My peace depends on knowing what my mom went through. After that, I would like to continue to advocate for the other victims who have gone through the same situation I have gone through. Helping other people and finding out who killed my mom." Simpson says the national organization, The Cold Case Foundation, has been looking into her mother's case and they plan to meet tomorrow to give her an update. Certain West Baton Rouge officials did not return our request for comment.
Posted by CoastLSUFan
Member since Nov 2010
713 posts
Posted on 5/25/22 at 11:01 pm to
I’ve been listening to Woody Overton’s podcast on this case, and it certainly does seem fishy. He delves into the full story.
Posted by LaBR4
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Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 5/25/22 at 11:19 pm to
I saw the news story at 10p.
Police said she slipped on chocolate syrup and killed herself.





If you have chocolate syrup in your home, please keep it locked up safely.
This post was edited on 5/25/22 at 11:21 pm
Posted by PhiTiger1764
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Posted on 5/25/22 at 11:50 pm to
Saw this on the 10pm news tonight. I feel like this has the potential to blow up. This was a murder cover up.
Posted by TDsngumbo
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Posted on 5/25/22 at 11:56 pm to
Yep, some cop or former cop - or his SO - is going to jail.
Posted by papasmurf1269
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Member since Apr 2005
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 12:17 am to
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If you have chocolate syrup in your home, please keep it locked up safely.
I should be safe as I am wearing a mask. Thank you for your concern
Posted by latech15
Member since Aug 2015
1178 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 6:21 am to
It’s time for common sense chocolate syrup law reform.

Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 6:59 am to
Ban assault sizzurp.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:00 am to
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Certain West Baton Rouge officials did not return our request for comment.


Just fricking name the officials. Is it the DA? A judge? What WBR officials are you questioning regarding a Point Coupee case?

2008? Jarreau? Wouldn’t that have been Bud Torres’ time as sheriff?
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
36791 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:02 am to
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This was a murder cover up.


Wait, doesn’t every person end up bruised, bloody, with lacerations and swollen black eyes after they slip and fall in their kitchen?
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
39352 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:09 am to
A few more details are coming forward. The daughter has filed suit to give all of the silent deputies a chance to speak. The wife of the philandering deputy knows more than she is saying, also.

More info
Posted by Tempratt
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Member since Oct 2013
13498 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:17 am to
Pretty obvious she was dating a cop and he killed her.
Cops don't like to turn on their own.


Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:20 am to
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Yep, some cop or former cop - or his SO - is going to jail.


Or kid or brother or sister. So many possibilities here.

Posted by gsvar2004
Member since Nov 2007
7970 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:30 am to
There’s no doubt in my mind “uncle Tommy” had something to do with this.
Posted by BarleyPop
Member since Nov 2016
702 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:58 am to
Point Coupee is a terrible place. If you are there, or have lived there, and disagree, consider yourself lucky. We lived there and it was a very difficult experience.
Posted by financetiger
Member since Feb 2008
1679 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:11 am to
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When her landlord found Kimberly Gail Womack’s nude and lifeless body in the bedroom of her mobile home, sheriff’s deputies told Kathryn Simpson that her mother had slipped in a puddle of chocolate syrup and hit her head. Following her mother’s cremation, investigators admitted to Kathryn that someone murdered her mom. Born in Magnolia, Mississippi, September 6, 1959, and growing up in Kentwood, her father’s hometown, Kim Womack, likely never imagined being murdered in Pointe Coupee Parish before her 49th birthday. Kim’s death certificate recorded her cause of death as “blunt force trauma to head by assault” and a “leftsided subdural hematoma” (brain hemorrhage) induced by multiple blows to her skull. Dr. Alfredo Suarez performed the autopsy on orders from the Deputy Coroner, Dr. Ty Chaney, accomplishing little more than confirming the coroner's initial observations. Dr. Harry Kellerman initially noted “multiple fractured ribs” and “multiple bruises on her upper and lower extremities as well as the mid-frontal region of the face” where dried blood had “emanated from her oral cavity and both nostrils.” Kathryn Simpson recalled a trail of blood leading from her mother’s kitchen into the bedroom where Kim Womack died. Days after her mom’s memorial at the Florida Boulevard Baptist Church, the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office phoned Kathryn, asking her to make the drive from her home in Baton Rouge to their office in New Roads. On the road, she felt optimistic, confidant they had scheduled the conference to tell her who killed her mother. Instead, sheriff’s investigators only told her who didn’t do it. Even today – 12 years after the homicide – the sheriff’s office insists that the man Kim Womack was dating – a married sheriff’s deputy – did not kill her. When the deputy, whom Kathryn says she had known all of her life, dodged her mother’s memorial, she grew suspicious. She asked 18th Judicial District Assistant District Attorney Tony Clayton to share the district attorney’s insights on the case. “He let me see the information,” Kathryn said, “but I couldn’t get a copy. He said if the contents of the file reached the media, it would ruin the deputy’s life.” He implied to Kathryn that she “will never know” the full story of her mom’s death. Almost immediately, Kathryn said she went to the office of the deputy’s wife. “I slapped my mom’s picture down in front of her,” she said. “And I asked if she knew the woman in the picture.” Kathryn said she told the deputy’s wife that Kim Womack had an affair with her husband and that she had taken a road trip with the officer three weeks before she “turned up dead.” Kathryn described in detail the sheriff’s deputy’s “training event” in Lake Charles and explained how her mother had covertly accompanied him. The deputy’s wife said she would confront her husband that night and call Kathryn the next day. “I couldn’t wait for the call,” Kathryn said, “I called her the next morning, but she just wished me luck and said she would not be talking to me again.” Sometime later, an ornate lawn brick appeared on Kathryn’s mother’s doorstep. The sheriff’s office told Kathryn they had found it there, engraved with her mother’s name and the monograms “DFB.” Investigators said they could only guess what the initials represented. According to her death certificate, Dr. Kellerman pronounced Kim Womack dead at approximately 11:10 a.m., August 1, 2008, in her rented mobile home at 5448 Lazare Jarreau Lane, following an injury sustained “approximately July 31, 2008.” Dr. Kellerman wrote that the sheriff’s office had called him after neighbors reported that Kim Womack had “not been seen for a day or so,” and he described the crime scene this way: “When I arrived, I went into the trailer with a sheriff’s deputy. The trailer was in a state of disarray. A door from bathroom going into bedroom appeared to have been pulled from its hinges. A bedside table in the bedroom was on its side, partially blocking the entrance to bedroom. I stepped over this to get into the bedroom. A totally nude female was lying crosswise across the bed. The decedent showed swelling around lids of eyes and dried blood from the nose and also what appeared to be multiple contusions of all extremities.” “I did not touch the body, but released to the sheriff’s deputies,” he wrote, “Will treat this as it appeared to be, a homicide until proven otherwise.” “The sheriff’s office contacted the state police crime lab to investigate this,” he added, “Big help in suspicious deaths.” Dr. Kellerman signed the autopsy report on August 3 and the Coroner’s Permission to Cremate on August 4, and Rabenhorst Funeral Home of Baton Rouge commissioned the Lafayette Crematory to incinerate the remains the following day. By signing the Permission to Cremate, Dr. Kellerman, perhaps unknowingly, violated Louisiana state law. Louisiana R.S. 13:5716 states, “If the cremation of a body is requested, the funeral director shall immediately notify the coroner who has jurisdiction in the death. If, after the necessary investigation, the coroner is satisfied that no suspicious circumstances surround the death, he shall issue a permit for cremation.



Dang! Yeah, this needs to be thoroughly investigated and someone needs to be held responsible.
Posted by financetiger
Member since Feb 2008
1679 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:12 am to
And what would DFB on the brick stand for? And who is “Uncle Tommy”?
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 8:15 am
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:15 am to
Posted by financetiger
Member since Feb 2008
1679 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:20 am to
Oh yeah, she knows who did it. This is a letter she wrote to the killer that was posted.

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For a long time now, you have had the advantage. You have leaned on that sweet, southern corruption, as thick as the humid Louisiana air. I wonder if you see her face at night. I wonder if you look in the eyes of the others and the memory of what you did flows between you like a shared nightmare. What a secret to keep. You’re not a sociopath, you have feelings. What a cancerous, grotesque memory to have to push away. How do you do it? Does it come back again to haunt you when you try to sleep at night? Do you see her face in other women? Every so often is there some random thing that reminds you, reminds you of what you did to her and the ugly perverted mess you are inside? In your wake is a dead woman, a family tortured, mouths kept shut and lives destroyed. Your greatest crime was murdering my mother, but it was far from your only one. You stole from me, from my family, you cheated the community’s scales of justice. You are a walking wrong. And for a long time now, you have had the advantage. But I see you. You know I see you. Tell me, did she scream? Is that a sound you can still hear? Can you hear the desperation in her shaking voice, can you still see the pain and fear on her bloodied face? Is that emblazoned in your mind’s eye? You left more than bruises. You covered her with blows, breaking her ribs. You smashed her head over and over with something so hard, the subdural hematoma killed her. Do you see it? Is it there in your head, her wet blood all over you, the gravity of what you had done sinking in? I know you didn’t plan on killing her. You lost control, and what you really are, deep down inside, that raw evil came out. I imagine it horrifies even you. For 12 years almost to the day, you have had the advantage. Enjoy your days. Spend time with your family. Because one day, just like my mother, you will be warm, safe, and unsuspecting, and you will hear footsteps on your front steps.You will hear a deafening knock on your front door. And away you will go to prison, and I will see to it. I see you. Sincerely, Kathryn Simpson
Posted by lsufb1912
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2021
5965 posts
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:36 am to
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Dr. Alfredo Suarez performed the autopsy on orders from the Deputy Coroner, Dr. Ty Chaney, accomplishing little more than confirming the coroner's initial observations. Dr. Harry Kellerman initially noted “multiple fractured ribs” and “multiple bruises on her upper and lower extremities as well as the mid-frontal region of the face” where dried blood had “emanated from her oral cavity and both nostrils.”
quote:

She asked 18th Judicial District Assistant District Attorney Tony Clayton to share the district attorney’s insights on the case. “He let me see the information,” Kathryn said, “but I couldn’t get a copy. He said if the contents of the file reached the media, it would ruin the deputy’s life.” He implied to Kathryn that she “will never know” the full story of her mom’s death.
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she went to the office of the deputy’s wife. “I slapped my mom’s picture down in front of her,” she said. “And I asked if she knew the woman in the picture.” Kathryn said she told the deputy’s wife that Kim Womack had an affair with her husband and that she had taken a road trip with the officer three weeks before she “turned up dead.” Kathryn described in detail the sheriff’s deputy’s “training event” in Lake Charles and explained how her mother had covertly accompanied him. The deputy’s wife said she would confront her husband that night and call Kathryn the next day. “I couldn’t wait for the call,” Kathryn said, “I called her the next morning, but she just wished me luck and said she would not be talking to me again.”

Kathryn Simpson knows that one or more of these people know the truth about what happened. She knows who the sheriff deputy is & who his wife is.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 8:37 am
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