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I found documents in the St. Landry Parish Courthouse (Opelousas, La.) regarding a Nov. 1999 wreck BSL was in. A couple was turning into their driveway on Prudence Highway, Church Point, when BSL tried to pass and clipped the rear end and side of their car. They sued for injuries. When police...

I don't know. They won't say where he went.

They initially took him to an interview room with audio and video capabilities. http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120808/NEWS01/120808013/Lavergne-checked-out-jail-hours-before-remains-found?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

I don't know the name of the cemetery. But if you get to the intersection of La. 13 and La. 10, head west on La. 10 toward Oakdale, about 2-3 miles west of the intersection of La. 10 and La. 13, to the left there's a one-lane road unpaved through trees. About 60 yards down that private road is...

I was at the scene in Evangeline Parish this afternoon. Couldn't get down the road to the cemetery because of police. But Cpl. Paul Mouton with Lafayette Police said: They cannot say 100% that the body is Mickey Shunick but they are pretty sure it is. He decline to say whether BSL confessed or...

I don't have the documents with me, but as I recall, the JPSO report on BSL's visit to Ochsner referred to the NOPD. NOPD interviewed him first and called JPSO.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the SOS website? I'd like to take a look at this. I'm curious about these Leger Road properties. As some of you know, I work at The Daily Advertiser and have been reading and absorbing these documents all day. I've figured out some of the many initials, but if...

Police Chief Jim Craft said they searched WB a second time because an image captured by sonar was interpreted by several of them as resembling a body. It turned out to be a log/tree lying in the water.

Yes, Marsha Sills, a reporter with The Baton Rouge Advocate's Acadiana bureau out of Lafayette, quoted a neighbor of BSL's saying she noticed a lot of buzzards around the neighborhood. There are fields around there. Probably crops. Maybe the neighbor meant black birds?

Young guy on the left is Allen Hainey, an assistant district attorney. His dad is Phil Hainey, DA in St. Martin Parish. I didn't see any of the detectives at the arraignment.

I'm pretty certain no one from the family was there. I was in the lobby of the Sheriff's Office afterwards and overheard the receptionist say BSL's mother called for an update.

That was my story in The Daily Advertiser. Unfortunately, with the mix-up between the jail and the chief judge and the courthouse, I had to watch the arraignment in the courthouse via video linkup. It was clear enough to see his movements but not clear enough to see cuts or wounds on his hands...

Dwayne Fatherree is metro editor at The Daily Advertiser.

I was told (I work at TDA) that LE looked at our tape early on, but was looking for MS on her bike. Later, they returned again to look for the truck. The third time, they took a copy of the tape. I did not see the tape. But an editor who reviewed 4 hours of it said it's in black and white and...

From what I was told, the first time LE viewed TDA tape they were looking for MS on her bike. After that, they were looking for the white truck. I have not seen the tape. An editor who watched four hours of it said she saw lots of trucks but the tape is in black and white and she couldn't tell...

Mike Harson is district attorney. Keith Stutes and Danny Landry are assistant district attorneys. Harson rarely tries cases anymore.

Wow. They just plagiarized my Daily Advertiser story; stole quotes directly from my interview with Judge Clause and did not attribute it to me or my newspaper. Hmmmmmm.

Judge Clause was in the small courtroom with Lavergne, his defense attorneys and the prosecuting attorneys. Mickey Shunick's family watched via video from the parish courthouse across the street. I was in the courthouse watching on video with the family. I couldn't see his hands or anything good...

Judge Clause was in the small courtroom with Lavergne, his defense attorneys and the prosecuting attorneys. Mickey Shunick's family watched via video from the parish courthouse across the street. I was in the courthouse watching on video with the family. I couldn't see his hands or anything good...

Link to the story I wrote this morning: http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120724/NEWS01/120724015/Harson-Shunick-Pate-cases-may-tried-together?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE