Interesting read on the backlash that can occur in a community when mounting missing/murdered investigations go unsolved. Trust in those sworn to provide public safety for the community is diminished, rumors emerge, speculation runs rampant.
Those familiar with the ULL Anthropology Student Mickey Shunick abduction(LA-2012) are well versed of Baton Rouge, LA serial killer Dexter Todd Lee. When certain cases could not be linked to Lee, investigators began to wonder if another serial killer had been in operation at the same time. A DTL copycat; Sean Vincent Gillis was then linked to a half dozen other murders in the area.
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Mickey Shunick's abductor; serial killer Brandon Scott Lavergne was apprehended by the well trained Lafayette PD quickly, due to a proactive investigation which utilized all available resources and the tremendous community awareness provide by her family and friends via internet/SM & local/national MSM..
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Jennings, LA 8: Unsolved murders haunt town, police
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Posted on January 30, 2014 at 10:30 PM
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Jennings 8: Unsolved murders haunt town, police
Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness News
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In south central Louisiana, in a small town on the edge of Cajun country, a string of eight young women were murdered between 2005