They knew something, they were afraid, and were going to die soon. One victim told her mom not to buy her a birthday cake, because she was going to be dead anyway. Several family members of the murdered women told eerily similar stories. But there was little effort to find out who was responsible.Įach of the Jennings eight knew each other and some were even cousins or roommates. It should have immediately raised red flags among the task force investigators when all 8 women who were questioned by the Jennings police, were found floating the bayous. There’s plenty of reason to be suspect the police in this neighborhood. During an ensuing standoff with themselves police, Karam killed one more cop. Shady as an oak tree. Probably most suspicious was back in 2000, Jennings police officer Phil Karam shot a fellow cop and his wife to death in their home. Or what about the time the Chief Deputy sheriff robbed his own evidence room of 300 pounds of weed. Things like…missing evidence, crime scenes altered, illegal highway stops, etc. It seems misconduct and patterns of unconstitutional conduct on a regular basis is a way of life in Jefferson Davis Parish. The first thing you should know about the police department of Jennings, LA is they have a long history of being unprofessional as they are corrupt. JEFF DAVIS PARRISH 8/JENNINGS KILLER: “UNSOLVED” She confessed and was given a life sentence. Clementine believed she would be blessed with riches and immortality. It’s believed since the crimes happened late on Sundays, the zealots would work themselves up into a killing frenzy. The hacked bodies would be staged in a praying position near their dead children. The group of four would walk into unlocked cabins around Lafayette and eliminate entire families with an ax-babies and all.Įach house had the same macabre display. SERIAL KILLERS: NOT IN BATON ROUGEĬlementine Barnabet, an 18 year old creole, was part of a small religious cult who butchered 7 entire families as they slept. Here are the people that impacted the state of Louisiana. The murderers were able to get away with killing for long periods of time, not because they were particularly clever, because the authorities weren’t prepared for a large scale of killing in one area, incompetent or just plain corrupt. A significant amount of the murdered men and women were last seen at a bar and were most likely shot or strangled. Unlike most of the country, Louisiana’s most active decade was 2000-2010. Big shout out to the City of Death: Baton Rouge, who claims 70 victims since 1997 when tracking began.
Since 1900, 276 victims have been attributed to a serial killer in this state. In Louisiana, you are more likely to be shot….but less likely to be involved in a mass murder. The book, which obviously has much more detail, states that he rented a room (with no mention that it was his grandparents).A notoriously violent state, it’s often considered the “Murder Capital of the US” due to their excessively high murder rate per capita. Note, in the it states that he lived with his grandparents in Lafayette Hill. During his period he claims to have killed two women. He was back in Washington in the spring of 1969. According to the same book, many involved in the Bundy case believe he made the drastic move in an effort to quelch the desires he had developed, but not acted on, in Washington.īundy only stayed at Temple for several months. To attend Temple he moved across the country from Washington state (he had previously been born in Philadelphia and lived in the city for three years prior to his family moving to Washington).
We are not sure how we never heard this before, but today there is an article on about the Netflix documentary series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes that mentions that Ted Bundy lived briefly with his grandparents in Lafayette Hill.Īccording to the book, The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History, he lived on South Warner Road in Lafayette Hill for a month prior to starting at Temple University in January of 1969.