The body of 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp was found near the Covington Fairgrounds in Louisiana's St Tammany Parish in February 1982. The teen had been violently raped and murdered, her clothing ripped off her body and tossed aside creating a trail through the woods to her broken body. The murder shocked the state, but with little evidence and nobody talking, the case went cold, but not forgotten. Louisiana State Police Investigator Stephan Ferguson reached out to local broadcaster Charles Dowdy and created a podcast to tell Roxanne's story in hopes of getting new information 40 plus years after the murder. It worked. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go back over the evidence from 1982 and explain how investigators were able to arrest four men, DECADES after the murder of Roxanne Sharp. 

 

 

 

 

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction - Louisiana

02:27.24 1982 Rape and Murder of Roxanne Sharp

05:21.08 Dixie Trailriders find body while looking for firewood

10:09.62 Cold Case investigation in 2020

14:52.82 Triangulation of evidence of crime scene 

20:08.47 Roxanne's body made a trail to her body

25:05.72 Roxanne's was hit on the bridge of the nose with an object

30:50.62 Roxanne was tiny, 5'1" tall, 

34:26.62 Arrest Warrants for four men

39:49.24 Two of the four suspects already in prison

42:52.95 Conclusion

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