Two Arkansas men were arrested Thursday for sex trafficking a juvenile after police found them leaving a Baton Rouge area motel where they had… . Also last year, a group of nuns opened a Baton Rouge home for human trafficking victims called Metanoia Manor, which Pope Francis blessed.
East Baton Rouge leaders have created a system meant to curb human trafficking, prostitution and other illegal activities they say have flourished in some motels and hotels across the parish.
Very little media coverage for this cold case/murder of Margaret Coon former Assistant District Attorney.
Okay, I went to my local Mandeville Library today --- no news articles from 1980s kept at this parish location -- must go to Slidell to view micro film.
I remember the Margaret Coon murder pretty well, nola, and the rumors of a cover up (so what else is new). FWIW, here's an excerpt from a book written by a former St. Tammany Parish LEO who claims that he answered a call about an attempted robbery at the Beau Chene club house the evening that Coon was jogging, and presumably abducted.
Cool find, Bessie. I've lived in Mandeville since 2001 and only heard about this case a few years ago. I've never been able to find anything on-line except a local Madisonville man's blog. There was some talk (on Topix) that the FBI was looking into the case, but I've never seen anything else. This lady so deserves justice.
Wow thanks Nola for bringing this case here to WS. I was born and raised in Covington and at the time of this murder I was a freshmen in high school at SSA in Covington and some of my friends lived in Beau Chene and as a young kid we rode our bikes all over that place even before it was densely populated.
I found this article (Dallas Times) that references the serial killer Henry Lee Lucas' ties to three St Tammany murder cases from '82 and '83. It is specific about the cases and LEOs role in connecting Lucas to these crimes.
After all these years, I finally found an online photo of Margaret Ann Coon. This picture was included in a classified ad placed by her father four years after her murder in his local paper (Alexandria, LA). The classified ad and photo of Margaret is a memorial to his daughter and a reminder that her murder was still unsolved back in 1991.