Identified! LA - St Tammany Parish, WhtBlkFem 18-30, UP2166, Skeletal in wooded area, Mar'89 - Paula Boudreaux

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Authorities ask public for information on Paula Boudreaux's case:

Cold Case: Young mother who vanished in 1986 linked to skeletal remains 33 years later

"Preston said that an email tip to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System recieved in October 2022 suggested that investigators look at Boudreaux's disappearance and that there may be a link to the unidentified remains found in 1989.

The coroner said cold case investigator Chris Knoblauch contacted Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, whose investigators collected DNA from Boudreaux’s known surviving relatives. Using that DNA, Preston linked the remains found in 1989 to Boudreaux in January 2023. The link prompted Preston to call the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office to join the investigation.

Preston said that from a forensic standpoint, the case was "closed," but there was still work to be done for law enforcement.

"Knowing who she was does not, after all, explain how she died – or how she wound up in Slidell, 105 miles away," Preston said.

Family members were contacted, but the investigation was kept quiet while the LPSO and STPSO did their work. Last week, investigators decided it was time to go public in hopes that more leads may develop.

"It’s unfortunate that Ms. Boudreaux’s identity remained undiscovered all these years while science caught up with mystery,” Preston said. “We’re happy to have played a role in bringing some measure of closure to her family, and to have contributed substantially to the work of local law enforcement. As the only Coroner’s Office in the state with an in-house DNA lab, we are able to provide these investigative tools that bring not only emotional closure, but justice. We have now identified the victim, and we will continue to work with these sheriff’s offices as they seek to identify whoever is responsible for her death.”

“Mrs. Boudreaux’s family has been left with unanswered questions for the past 33 years, but today, they can finally begin to have some closure,” Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said. “With that said, this is only the first piece of the puzzle. Now, our investigators will work with St. Tammany Parish investigators, and likely other jurisdictions as well, as we attempt to determine what happened to Mrs. Boudreaux. We hope this ongoing investigation displays our commitment to finding the truth in every case, even when it means waiting for the technology to catch up to that investigation. We also implore anyone who many have any information which might be helpful in this case to come forward.”
 
DSCrime said:
Authorities ask public for information on Paula Boudreaux's case:

Cold Case: Young mother who vanished in 1986 linked to skeletal remains 33 years later

"Preston said that an email tip to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System recieved in October 2022 suggested that investigators look at Boudreaux's disappearance and that there may be a link to the unidentified remains found in 1989.

The coroner said cold case investigator Chris Knoblauch contacted Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, whose investigators collected DNA from Boudreaux’s known surviving relatives. Using that DNA, Preston linked the remains found in 1989 to Boudreaux in January 2023. The link prompted Preston to call the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office to join the investigation.

Preston said that from a forensic standpoint, the case was "closed," but there was still work to be done for law enforcement.

"Knowing who she was does not, after all, explain how she died – or how she wound up in Slidell, 105 miles away," Preston said.

Family members were contacted, but the investigation was kept quiet while the LPSO and STPSO did their work. Last week, investigators decided it was time to go public in hopes that more leads may develop.

"It’s unfortunate that Ms. Boudreaux’s identity remained undiscovered all these years while science caught up with mystery,” Preston said. “We’re happy to have played a role in bringing some measure of closure to her family, and to have contributed substantially to the work of local law enforcement. As the only Coroner’s Office in the state with an in-house DNA lab, we are able to provide these investigative tools that bring not only emotional closure, but justice. We have now identified the victim, and we will continue to work with these sheriff’s offices as they seek to identify whoever is responsible for her death.”

“Mrs. Boudreaux’s family has been left with unanswered questions for the past 33 years, but today, they can finally begin to have some closure,” Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said. “With that said, this is only the first piece of the puzzle. Now, our investigators will work with St. Tammany Parish investigators, and likely other jurisdictions as well, as we attempt to determine what happened to Mrs. Boudreaux. We hope this ongoing investigation displays our commitment to finding the truth in every case, even when it means waiting for the technology to catch up to that investigation. We also implore anyone who many have any information which might be helpful in this case to come forward.”
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Incredible news! I always thought this Doe could be Babette Alberti, due to an uncanny resemblance but I'm glad that Paula has her name back and her family has gotten the closure they deserve. If Paula was murdered, which I find likely IMO, the next step would be finding who did this to her.
 
“Mrs. Boudreaux’s family has been left with unanswered questions for the past 33 years, but today, they can finally begin to have some closure,” said Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre.

“With that said, this is only the first piece of the puzzle. Now, our investigators will work with St. Tammany Parish investigators, and likely other jurisdictions as well, as we attempt to determine what happened to Mrs. Boudreaux. We hope this ongoing investigation displays our commitment to finding the truth in every case, even when it means waiting for the technology to catch up to that investigation. We also implore anyone who may have any information which might be helpful in this case to come forward.”
www.fox8live.com

Remains found in Slidell nearly 40 years later identified as missing mother from Lafourche Parish

More than 30 years after remains were discovered near Slidell, a cold case involving the death of a Lafourche Parish mom has now opened back up.
www.fox8live.com www.fox8live.com
 
"We are taking the position that, until we discover otherwise, foul play or perhaps homicide was involved," Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said at a press conference, April 19. "We consider this case a now active criminal investigation."

Rumors circulated of foul play at the time of her disappearance, Webre said, but no hard proof pushed the case beyond that of a missing person. There are suspects and one residence in Golden Meadow that will be investigated going forward. Webre said in days past departments from parish agencies were not as connected as they are today, and he credited the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office for contacting them.

St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office Cold Case Investigator Chris Knoblauch said no case is ever closed, "every death has to be presumed to be a homicide until it is proven it isn't".
www.houmatoday.com

New tech leads to breakthrough in 1986 Golden Meadow cold case. Foul play is suspected

A break was made in a 37-year-old case when previously unidentified remains turned out to be those of a missing Golden Meadow woman.
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DNA was a tool in its infancy when Boudreaux disappeared, he said.

Craig Webre said Paula Boudreaux’s family agonized for decades, “hoping against hope” she was still alive. But, with her death confirmed, he said there is some measure of closure now, and they’ll be able to give her a proper burial.

“But this is only the first piece of the puzzle,” he said. “Now, our investigators will work with St. Tammany Parish investigators and other jurisdictions as we attempt to determine what happened to Mrs. Boudreaux.”

Webre said there are persons of interest in the case, but they have identified no suspects.

“It’s a complicated case, as all cold cases are. Because witnesses have been deceased, much of physical evidence that might have existed no longer exists,” he said. “But we’ll take this case wherever it leads us.”
www.hammondstar.com

DNA IDs victim in Slidell cold case

This week, several readers contacted me asking if authorities had identified Slidell’s Lady in the Lake. Unfortunately, the answer is no. However, a similar cold case is now one step
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A very good article from wwltv in New Orleans. It covers all aspects of Paula’s disappearance to the local rumors to a possible taped confession that was “lost” to a cover up and a cousin looking for the missing link in her family tree.

November 2, 2023

From drunken recollections by alleged witnesses to the coverup, to a rumored confession given, and later lost, at the Golden Meadow Town Hall, the stories about what happened to Paula circled around town for decades.

www.wwltv.com

Dissecting the mysterious death of Paula Boudreaux: Could the rumors be true?

“Everybody talked about it, you know, kind of a rumor, but a rumor down here, you know, it's pretty much the truth,” said Van Boudreaux, Paula’s brother.
www.wwltv.com www.wwltv.com
 
Caring1 said:
A very good article from wwltv in New Orleans. It covers all aspects of Paula’s disappearance to the local rumors to a possible taped confession that was “lost” to a cover up and a cousin looking for the missing link in her family tree.

November 2, 2023

From drunken recollections by alleged witnesses to the coverup, to a rumored confession given, and later lost, at the Golden Meadow Town Hall, the stories about what happened to Paula circled around town for decades.

www.wwltv.com

Dissecting the mysterious death of Paula Boudreaux: Could the rumors be true?

“Everybody talked about it, you know, kind of a rumor, but a rumor down here, you know, it's pretty much the truth,” said Van Boudreaux, Paula’s brother.
www.wwltv.com www.wwltv.com
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Interesting excerpt:

"Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s deputies are investigating whether Paula had been in a relationship with a married man whose wife was known to have a bad temper.

“She had been messing around,” Van admitted.

A witness recently told the sheriff’s investigators that they saw the man’s wife wielding a cane knife, a type of machete, on B&R Lane making veiled threats against Paula a few days before she went missing."
 
Russell Lee and Judith Weiser are charged with the murder in the death of 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux. After Boudreaux went missing, skeletal remains were found in January 1989 in Slidell. Last year, those remains were identified as those of Boudreaux, prompting cold case investigators to reopen the case.

Investigators say they were able to determine Lee and Weiser were persons of interest in the case. The sheriff's office says it discovered Lee had a violent criminal history since 1986, including aggravated charges of kidnapping, assault, battery, burglary, and arson. Investigators say they believe Lee and Weiser killed Boudreaux, dismembered her body, and dumped the remains in Slidell.
www.wdsu.com

Arrests made in Lafourche Parish cold case murder from 1986

Russell Lee and Judith Weiser have been charged with murder
www.wdsu.com www.wdsu.com
 
imstilla.grandma said:
Russell Lee and Judith Weiser are charged with the murder in the death of 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux. After Boudreaux went missing, skeletal remains were found in January 1989 in Slidell. Last year, those remains were identified as those of Boudreaux, prompting cold case investigators to reopen the case.

Investigators say they were able to determine Lee and Weiser were persons of interest in the case. The sheriff's office says it discovered Lee had a violent criminal history since 1986, including aggravated charges of kidnapping, assault, battery, burglary, and arson. Investigators say they believe Lee and Weiser killed Boudreaux, dismembered her body, and dumped the remains in Slidell.
www.wdsu.com

Arrests made in Lafourche Parish cold case murder from 1986

Russell Lee and Judith Weiser have been charged with murder
www.wdsu.com www.wdsu.com
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Wow I can't believe it, Paula is finally getting justice. Now to find out why these two killed her. I wonder if Russell Lee and Judith Weiser are the husband and wife mentioned in the November 2023 article.

And it looks like life has really run them over.
 
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