In the shadows of Louisiana’s bayous, a predator operated almost unnoticed for nearly a decade.

Ronald Joseph Dominique, later dubbed The Bayou Strangler, confessed to the murders of at least 23 men and boys between 1997 and 2006. He lured vulnerable victims with false promises of work, then subjected them to unimaginable violence. For years, his crimes slipped beneath the radar, receiving little national attention even as the death toll climbed.

When Dominique was finally arrested and convicted in 2008, investigators revealed the true scale of what had happened. The FBI would later describe it as one of the most significant serial murder cases in modern American history, both for its duration and the number of lives lost.

So how did a killer responsible for so many deaths remain largely invisible for so long? And why were his victims so easily overlooked?

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Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell

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Artwork: George Leigh

Music: Dan Wansell

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