Cold Cases in Louisiana
ColdCaseIndex documents 8 cases in Louisiana, dated 1912 to 2022. 3 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Bobby Dunbar (1912) and the most recent is Lacey Fletcher (2022).
- Unsolved 3 (38%)
- Partly resolved 1 (12%)
- Solved or convicted 4 (50%)
Homicide clearance in Louisiana, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
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Lacey Fletcher
Lacey Fletcher, 36, was found dead on January 3, 2022 on a couch in her parents' home in Slaughter, Louisiana, after years of severe neglect.
Jeff Davis 8 Victims
Eight women and girls were found dead in and around Jefferson Davis Parish between 2005 and 2009. Many were involved in prostitution or drug use.
Derrick Todd Lee Victims
Derrick Todd Lee was convicted in 2004 of murdering Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Murray Pace and was sentenced to death for the Pace killing.
Jeremy Guillory
Six-year-old Jeremy Guillory was strangled on February 7, 1992, in a house near Iowa, Louisiana, where Ricky Langley rented a room.
Grissom Family Murders (Danny Rolling Confession)
William "Tom" Grissom, 55, his daughter Julie, 24, and his grandson Sean, 8, were killed in their Shreveport home on November 4, 1989. Danny Rolling was long suspected but never charged in Louisiana.
Frank Morris
Frank Morris, a Black shoe-shop owner in Ferriday, Louisiana, was fatally burned in the early hours of December 10, 1964, when two white men set fire to his store and, according to FBI records, one of them blocked his escape…
New Orleans Axeman Victims
An unidentified attacker known as the Axeman struck homes in and around New Orleans between May 1918 and October 1919, killing six people and injuring several others, many of them Italian grocers and their families.
Bobby Dunbar
Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a 1912 fishing trip at Swayze Lake, Louisiana. A boy recovered months later was claimed and raised as Bobby, but 2004 DNA testing proved he was not a Dunbar, confirming a century-old…