Another case with few information. At 8.59 a.m. on May 10, 1973, Lake Charles police was contacted by a woman who’d just walked into the unlocked door of Children’s Shoe House, located at the time at 123 South Ryan St. (now DeBakey Drive). The caller had gone to the store to buy shoes for her children.
She told the dispatcher she’d seen a woman lying on the floor of the store, bleeding and moaning. It was store owner Marian (Mrs. Wallace) Pierce, Jr., her face covered in blood. Her head rested in a pool of blood. Damage to the head was severe and gruesome — too gruesome to be described in this magazine. Lake Charles Police would later determine that the cause of the horrific wounds was blunt force trauma. After 48 hours Marian died.
Here is an article with more info on the case (I have not found more): COLD CASE FILES: The 1973 Murder Of Marian Pierce - BestOfSwla
She told the dispatcher she’d seen a woman lying on the floor of the store, bleeding and moaning. It was store owner Marian (Mrs. Wallace) Pierce, Jr., her face covered in blood. Her head rested in a pool of blood. Damage to the head was severe and gruesome — too gruesome to be described in this magazine. Lake Charles Police would later determine that the cause of the horrific wounds was blunt force trauma. After 48 hours Marian died.
Here is an article with more info on the case (I have not found more): COLD CASE FILES: The 1973 Murder Of Marian Pierce - BestOfSwla
