July 1991: 'Brenda': A young woman, identified by police as 'Brenda,' was abducted near Memorial Park Drive and Nevada Street in Algiers. Because of the secluded locations, the victims tended to be in advanced states of decomposition by the time they were found, leaving evidence destroyed and some victims unidentified.

The majority of the victims’ were strangled or drowned and their bodies were dumped in bayous or canals situated along highways bordering the western banks of Lake Pontchartrain. Five of the victims were men, but some of them were reportedly transgender.

Most of the victims, police said, were African-American women involved in drugs and prostitution. Twenty-seven bodies were discovered between 19. Hes now pinning his hopes on advancements in DNA testing technology, which could finally bring a killer to justice. When The Huffington Post recently began defrosting this cold case, one of the few original investigators remaining on the job decided to take a fresh look at evidence recovered from one of the crime scenes. The investigation eventually fell from the media spotlight, with all but one of the murders remaining unsolved. The conviction of a cab driver for one of those murders based on testimony from jailhouse informants and scant physical evidence, along with multiple allegations of misconduct against the task force leader, cast doubt on the investigation. The murders garnered national attention when a police officer was named a suspect, and a task force assembled to investigate the crimes suggested more than one killer was responsible. The historic metropolis that Louis Armstrong once dubbed the Land of Dreams had become a nightmare for the families of more than two dozen people who turned up dead in outlying swamps and bayous. NEW ORLEANS ― Twenty-five years ago, the melting pot of culture and tradition that makes up the Crescent City was overshadowed by a cloud of evil. Chewing tobacco DNA may finally provide a new break in the case of New Orleans infamous Storyville slayer.

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