Yes, Judy kept her maiden name and they were legally married in January 1984.
Eric was working at a plant Nursery called Dugals in Lafayette, La. When I spoke with him he said that he stopped working when they moved back to St. Martinville because he didn't have a ride. Later he said a car. Another time he said he always had a car. I questioned how he paid the rent if he quit his job to move there and he said he worked hard.
No one is exactly positive where the statement regarding the pharmacy came from. I know that in speaking to the family they all heard it from Eric. When I ask Eric he said that is what the staff told him.
The week before Judy went missing she told her sister that Eric was making her have sex with his boss for car rides to and from work. This came directly from her sister. Judy told her she was tired of it and that one day she would go missing an no one was ever going to find her. Judy's sister urged her to leave Eric and move in with her and her husband but she never did. Eric denies this claim and said he would never share his wife.
When Eric was interviewed on 1/18/23 he told the Detective the weekend before he and Judy went to her friend's house.
He doesn't remember where or any specific names except her name was Pam and her husband was a big cop. Eric stated she was a Smith or her parents were. This is significant because her sister Laura was married to a Smith. His claim was that he "figured they were trying to cross breed or something like that or do a swing". Eric said he insisted they leave and they never spoke about it again.
All of the case records, solved and unsolved, from 1996 and prior were disposed of according to the Chief's secretary. I was told it was to make room because they didn't have electronic files.
Could locating Judy implicate local LE in some way? Absolutely.
So, was there in fact a couple with the last name Smith - comprised of a big cop with a wife named Pam?
Was Pam Smith (if there was such a person) Laura’s sister in law?
Why would ER not be able to remember their names, or where they lived? After all, would the Smith’s have also been his brother and sister in law? (Weren’t Judt and Laura sisters?). I must be missing something
Did JAG and her sister Laura get along?
What were they both (and possibly Laura’s sister in law (again, is that Pam? Pam
Smith?) doing dating / sleeping with (or possibly getting raped by) a monster like attempted murderer (sounds like, anyway) Ronald J Letullier? Was this while they (Judt, Laura, Pam - or at least Judy) were married?
If Pam was Laura’s sister in law and Laura’s sister in law was possibly aldo sleeping with RL, i guess the big cop was okay with it? Everybody swapping? Ughh
And what would that that have to do with her disappearance anyway? Does it mean Ronald might’ve disappeared Judy? Big cop? Why?
When was Ronald sentenced?
Sure seems that ER would be the most likely suspect. Either him or RL (or was he even a bf?) who seemingly sleeping with (or raping) the entire town) or her sister Laura or her sister’s sister in law’s husband big cop or ER’s boss at the women's (maybe together with ER?)?
And I get that JAG might’ve stayed barefoot and typically stuck close to home in Martinsville , but given all the above, I don’t think we can necessarily assume she was going nowhere when she was reportedly seen getting into a truck. Where was truck going?
Sex in the exchange for a ride to work, for your husband? Three women sleeping with attempted murderer at same time, with at least two of husbands knowing?
Then ER, (who sounds like a real piece of work) paraphrased: “I think they wanted to get together for cross breeding or swinging something..”
Really?
Again, not saying Frankie Richards was involved, just saying it’s not out of the realm of possibility that there was pimping and sex trafficking and violent assault going on in that entire band of LA - by seemingly everyone, including women, men, women's bf’s, and women’s husbands.
So, hard to rule out a connection to Jennings as it sounds like that area of LA, that stretch from St Martinsville to Jennings - is almost one large but not very populated backwoods town
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FM you certainly deserve huge kudos for researching the case and trying to find some justice for Judy. It seems however that with the case files and evidence missing, and so little real info available, this one may never get solved (unless of course JAG is found and DNA or other incriminating evidence is found at the scene.
All jmo
