Bayou Justice: Louisiana Cold Case Files

A small town sunday school teacher vanished in 2008, and 15 years later, the local sheriff's office doesn't have a clue what happened to her. This week, we interview Wesley and Terrie Collins, the last people to admit seeing Barbara Blount alive. 

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Bayou Justice is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by 40-year journalist HL Arledge and features unsolved or historically notable crime stories from South Louisiana. Each report is based on interviews with key players, including investigators, lawyers, victims, and their families.

A small town sunday school teacher vanished in 2008, and 15 years later, the local sheriff's office doesn't have a clue what happened to her. This month on Bayou Justice, we examine all known facts in the disappearance of Mrs. Barbara Blount of Holden, Louisiana. 

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Bayou Justice is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by 40-year journalist HL Arledge and features unsolved or historically notable crime stories from South Louisiana. Each report is based on interviews with key players, including investigators, lawyers, victims, and their families.

Saturday night, Frankie Richard told me he was anxious to get back to work on his book about the Jennings 8 murders. He said the world needed to know the truth about Jefferson Davis parish’s dirty cops, prostitution, organized crime, and the route of a drug cartel that extended from Louisiana across Texas and into the Midwest—and that night, Frankie Richard died in his sleep.

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Bayou Justice is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by 40-year journalist HL Arledge and features unsolved or historically notable crime stories from South Louisiana. Each report is based on interviews with key players, including investigators, lawyers, victims, and their families.

In 1973, swimmers found a professional fisherman and party barge captain murdered in Holden, Louisiana. The body had been dumped near a bridge over the Tickfaw River. Today, the crime remains unsolved. In 1974, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office wrote off the homicide as a mob hit, complements of the New Orleans mafia.

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Bayou Justice is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by 40-year journalist HL Arledge and features unsolved or historically notable crime stories from South Louisiana. Each report is based on interviews with key players, including investigators, lawyers, victims, and their families.

HL Arledge's earliest assignments as a crime reporter began in the 1980s, an era of South Louisiana’s most brutal murders. Returning to the bayou after decades in California, he was shocked to find those murders remain unsolved. HL Arledge’s Bayou Justice podcast premiers March 16th. Episode 0 is the show's introductory trailer.

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Bayou Justice is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by 40-year journalist HL Arledge and features unsolved or historically notable crime stories from South Louisiana. Each report is based on interviews with key players, including investigators, lawyers, victims, and their families.