OceanMetTheSky
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During my early twenties, I scored a job with the Census Bureau. For me it was high cotton, as I was desperately poor. I lived in Duson off of Ridge Road at the time, and was assigned Duson and the surrounding areas. You are right, there are places that are in the middle of no-where.
One day I was in one such place. Cane fields all around. I was lost, and my aging 1973 VW beetle bug was low on gas. I saw a guy approaching me on a tractor, and realized he might help with directions.
As I flagged him down he pulled in front of me and blocked me, so that I could not go forward. He jumped off the tractor and came running as fast as his overweight, overall wearing body could move. As he got closer the look I saw was not one of a person who intended to help me.
On that day, that 1973 VW beetle became a truck, I drove it right through a ditch and out the other side and half way thru a part of a cane field. When I came out, I was going in the direction I had come from. I looked in my rear view and he stood right where my car had been a few minutes before.
I've shared a bit of my early Louisiana life to show you how easy it would be for something evil to go down in a blink of an eye in the country. I was lucky. MS was not. So he could have hidden her in the middle of the day and no one would have been the wiser... Especially out there..
I just realized I should have kept that bug.
Oh my God!!! That is so scary. I'm glad you are okay. You definitely did the smart thing of pulling off into the field through the ditch. Locking doors/windows isn't enough, especially if he would have had a weapon to break your glass. I'm very glad you are okay.
You're right. Duson/Rayne areas are just asking for "back road trouble".
There are areas of water, ponds, weeds, fields, woods, everything.
All where little to no homes are in most areas.
To get to Rayne if he did go there after the crime, he would have probably passed through Duson if he took back roads.
Places like that are "heavens" to anyone wanting to hide something.
What sucks is that around that time, fields were just about to be harvested, and sugar cane was low. By now, they are all grown up in almost every field.
I really wish Mickey would have been as lucky as you.
But let your story be that much more help to other users here.
As long as your car can keep going, KEEP IT GOING!
Personally, I think with technology now, there should be a way for LE to locate ANY phone once it is turned off/broken/anything or it's last location. PINGS only go so far. Because everyone these days has some sort of phone with them, they should really look into this.