The Jennings 8: Part 3

Warning. This episode contains graphic crime scene detail as well as talk of sexual assault. It may be sensitive for some listeners. All witnesses, purchase of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk right now in true crime, and then together we are going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go. Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. This is going to be. Posted the day after Christmas, so I hope you all have a very, very merry Christmas. And if you don't celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a fantastic day. So we are going to get into right now and true crime. We're going to keep it short and sweet. There's not a ton to talk about, really, so we are just going to get right to the point. So first up, Richard Allen has officially been sent tends to one hundred and thirty years behind bars for the deaths of Libby German and Abby Williams, the Delphi murders. We have talked about it four years. I am so glad that there was finally some resolution in this case because there was no action in this case for a long long time. The first year I went to crime con, their family, Abby and Libby's family were set up on a very small podcast row because the first year I went to crime con was in twenty twenty one in Austin, and it was so small compared to the crime cons now, and I think it had a lot to do with like post pandemic and all that they were keeping it smaller. But they had a table set up on the very tiny podcast row, and I remember thinking, there's no way that this crime is insolved. There's literally video of the killer from the snapchat video. So I'm so glad that there has finally been resolution. He has been found guilty rightfully so, and he is now going to never set foot on the outside again. And that is exactly the way it should be, because he is a true monster. And I feel like his behavior since he's been behind bars has shown us what kind of person he really is. He knows how to turn it on, and he knows how to turn it on to his advantage, although I don't think it worked for him in this particular scenario. But I am really glad that he is never going to get out. Of course, there's going to be appeals on appeals on appeals, but I do. Think that there's a good chance that Richard Allen is. Not going to win any type of appeal in any way, shape or form. So for that we are grateful he is behind bars. Last thing I want to talk about real quickly is a case update. I had done a story on Brandon Lawson a while back. I think probably one of the first fifty episodes I did was on brand In So. Brandon went missing in August of twenty thirteen. He had left home and ended up running out of gas and had made a phone call to his brother, and his brother was en rout to the area that Brandon said he was, and then he also called nine one one and made claims that he was essentially being chased and that people were after him. And it was really really hard to dissect because there were parts of the nine one one call that were hard to understand what Brandon was saying, and there had been people that slowed it down and really tried to analyze what Brandon was saying, but by the time anyone got to the scene, Brandon was gone. Now this is in the middle of nowhere, Texas. So by the time anyone got there, Brandon was gone, and he was missing for a long, long, long time. So in February of twenty twenty two, on Brandon's Facebook page that the family had set up called Help Find Brandon Lawson, they posted that a search party had located some of Brandon's clothing and then the Texas Rangers came in and they found human remains. So those human remains were found in twenty twenty two, and they had been waiting for positive identification of the remains, but they did believe that they belonged. To Brandon, and we officially got word. The family posted on Christmas Day that the remains were positively identified as belonging to Brandon. So I still have so many questions with this case, because there were a lot of rumors that Brandon had recently started taking drugs again prior to his disappearance. He had a history of substance abuse issues, so there had been a lot of people that said, well, the nine will one call was probably just him having hallucination and there weren't really people after him. But I really don't think we're ever going to know what exactly happened to Brandon, but I do know that the family is grateful for closure and at least a little bit of resolution in Brandon's case. I'm going to read what. They posted on Christmas update. Merry Christmas to our wonderful and amazing community. A few years ago, we posted the photo you see here in hopes that Brandon would soon be returned to us. We can now say that our Christmas wish will soon be fulfilled. A few days ago, the Texas. Ranger in charge of Brandon's case called with the news that our family has been waiting for since early twenty twenty two. The laboratory was finally able to confirm that the human remains found in February twenty twenty two. Are in fact those of Brandon Lawson. We can, finally, after eleven years, bring Brandon home and lay him to rest with his family, and we smile knowing that Brandon is celebrating this day watching over us. We want to thank each and every single one of you for your love, prayers and support over these last eleven years. You have helped us carry You have helped carry us through this journey. We wish you a Merry Christmas enjoy a time with your loved ones and hold them close. Life is precious. We love you, Brandon. You are in our hearts forever, all of our love and gratitude Ledessa and the loss in family. So Ladessa was in a long term relationship with Brandon for about ten years leading up to his disappearance. They had kids together, they were building this life together, and it is an unfortunate ending, but at least the family finally has answers after not having answers for such a long time. So that is how we're going to end right now in True Crime with that little case update, and we are going to go ahead and get into Jennings Part three, the final chapter of the Jennings eight. I hope you. Guys enjoy all right, guys, today we are jumping in to part three of the Jennings. Eight Jeff Davis eight case. Like I said, this case has so much information and I really had to as I was watching the documentary, I had to give myself breaks because it was really heavy stuff. Things were developing so quickly and I was super overwhelmed. I am not gonna lie, But like I said, we're going to get into part three today. So we're going to pick up where we left off. So in the documentary, the next thing that is talked about is a. Pretty big deal. So Ethan Brown said that when. He had first pulled the files on all the victims, he kept seeing the specific address that was consistently popping up, and when he went in to investigate it a little further, he found out that it was a motel called the boudro In. So there was different people in the documentary that went on to explain that during the Jeff Davis eight era, it was the place to go for sex and drugs. Ernestine was also made at the boudreau In, so we have a connection there and Loretta hung around there. Steve, who I just told you about, lived next door to the boudreau In and would get drugs from there, and that is where he would go to party with the girls. That's how he knew the girls. So there's no way that this boudro In. Isn't connected to everything that was going on in Jennings in the days before Kristen's murder. Frankie then goes on to talk about taking Kristin into the boudreau In to make some money, and then they talk about Frankie Richard using the boudreau In with many of the women, many of her victims. Ethan then went on to pull every incident report and every call to law enforcement for law enforcement services to the boudreau In during the Jennings eight era, and there were thousands and thousands of pages of material, lots of calls to nine, lots of reports, domestic violence issues, lots going on. So the entire universe of the Jeff Davis Eight, all of our victims are in these reports. So it really goes to bag the question, with these reports being what they are, how much did law enforcement know about it? And why didn't they make this connection. If all of these victims are mentioned in these reports from the boudreau In and then all of these women end up dead, don't you think law enforcement would say this is our smoking gun, this boudrou In, We need to investigate this further. So, despite all of these horrific reports that came out in the era of the Jeff Davis Eight getting their lives stolen from them, the boudrou In was kept open. It was kept operational, and I just don't even know how. And as of right now, as of this recording. I'm happy to report that the Boudreau In is now closed and the building has been taken over by a firework store, and it's very run down, but it does seem like it's operational as a fireworkstore. I went down the rabbit hole on Google Maps, which I do all the time on Google street View, and went back in time to look at what it looked like as the Boudreau In and then looking at it now as this fireworkstore. I can't imagine walking into a place like the Boudreau In and saying I'm going to have my small business firework store here. But to each their own, so this place definitely has creepy vibes. I also found some photos of it after it was closed down, and it's just you know, pictures of kind of the remnants of the Boodrowin. So I'm also going to post those on my Instagram and Facebook pages. If you're not following me, please go over there and follow me. So we are close, close, close to nearing the end of this is Jeff Davis Jennings eight story. We still have a ways to go, but we are now headed into episode five of Murder in the Bayou. So Episode five starts off with the family members of the victims expressing their frustration with everything and the lack of progress in their loved ones cases. Ethan Brown talks about how in the peak of the Jeff Davis eight era, everyone knew the Boudo win was a place for prostitution and drugs, and there isn't any way that the Sheriff's office or Jennings Police Department didn't know what was going on. In twenty eleven, Ricky Edwards was facing a lot of criticism regarding the handling of the Jeff Davis eight cases, and there ended up being a Sheriff's selection and a man named Ivy Woods ended up running against Ricky on the promise and the platform that he would investigate thoroughly the Jennings eight to his best ability, and like I said, this will his platform, and he ended up winning that election. And family said, as of the time of the documentary being made, nothing has changed from their standpoint. But I would imagine after years of underhanded, secret dealings and such that anyone that did want to come forward had lost so much faith in the system after having tried. For years, So they just didn't want to talk to anyone anymore. I mean, there were. People that literally would go to the task force and be turned away because they would be bringing the information that wasn't coinciding with what the task Force wanted to happen. Shady, underhanded shit is basically what we're dealing with. So it is hard, I imagine for a new guy to come in, a new sheriff to come in and try to change the culture of that and try to gain people's trust and all of that. But I do think that if you're running out a platform of investigating the cases thoroughly, then that's what you should be doing to your best ability. We now again hear from Chad Richard who said that at one point in time, he was in a rehab facility in Logansport, Louisiana. He was in there trying to get clean, and he said that at some point while he was there, Frankie Richard had showed up as well to. Try and get help. And Frankie was basically in charge of the laundry at this rehab facility, so he said they would often go into the laundry area and talk and Frankie would make coffee, and Chad said that while they were in there, Frankie confessed to him that he had killed Whitney at Frankie's mom's house in a camper trailer that was to the side of his mom's house, and then he said that he took her body and placed it in a fifty five. Gallon drum behind the house. And then Chad also said that Frankie also confessed to Christen's murder as well. So the next Chad went and told one of the administrators that Frankie had confessed to the two murders, and then before he knew it, Frankie was gone. And Chad doesn't know if anything was ever done, if anyone ever reported anything further. Than that, and that was it. Frankie was gone from the rehab. Ethan Brown said that despite all the info that law enforcement has, all the statements, all the information from folks who have gone to the task force, it's like all that goes into that goes into a black hole and nothing is ever done with it. You give this information, it seems like it's pretty credible, it's going to lead somewhere, and then you never hear a word from it again. Next we hear from a former Louisiana state trooper and a man who ended up retiring as a deputy commander with the state Police. He is named. Bucky Millett, and he said that when the news first broke about the murders, he and his wife were very concerned, but were confident that it would be solved. And then he goes on to say that he's disgusted that nothing was done about it in all of this time. We then hear from another retired Louisiana State trooper named Tanny, who also mimics these sentiments, and Bucky and Tanny are going to be a big part of the story as I continue with this episode. So they decided what they were going to do was they were going to join forces to try and look at the case again and see if there was anything they could do to help. Finally, we have. Two people with law enforcement background that actually want to do the right thing and help the case rather than hinder it and hide from it. So Bucky and Tanny and Ethan Brown obviously not in law enforcement, but they. Deserve all of the applause for their role in actually. Doing the right thing. They then talk about Terry Gillory and how he was allegedly. Having sex with some of the inmates and how that is a huge issue. They then talk about how they found out that there was a lawsuit regarding some sexual misconduct in the jail while Terry Gillory was working there as the warden, and this lawsuit is in regards to another jail employee who was another jailer there at the JD. Parrish PD. This case did end up being settled, but the jailer actually ended up taking his own life. Which is a lot. I mean, obviously, why would you take your own life if you didn't have some unsavory things going on and attention was suddenly being. Brought to them. There's no coincidences with stuff like that. So Bucky said that he thinks it was a practice in the jail to abuse the girls that would be brought in sexually assault them. And Bucky said that this practice went all the way back to two thousand and two. From what he could find. There was a deputy who was charged for having sex and abusing. Girls in jail in two thousand and two. Bucky and he ended up bringing this case up to the attention of Ethan Brown and it ended up with a connection to one of her girls. One of our victims. So the case ended with this person taking a plead deal to Malfie's it's in office and Terry Gilliery wasn't the worden at the time, but he did do interviews in regards to it. And like I said, it's going to tie back to one. Of the girls. One of the witnesses was our victim number eight, none other than Terry's cousin, Nicole Gilliery, And we have audio clips from that interview. So we're now going to hear a portion of that interview. Fair warning, it is sexually graphic in nature and it is very disturbing. If you do not want to hear about the sexual assault of a female prisoner, then please fast forward about a minute and a half. Take the car of Gilry for with your GOWNE Gillory, what's your gold? The home you go, g I s and E sealing it tell us about most the holes that you've been in jail. The jailers just sleep on the females, never bring any cerets, drugs, getting people right. Actually, what do you. Know about him? What you saw? That's what were waning up. I know for sure every colors to sleep with the females pocossi. Okay you digitally with their coats, or you're an inmate of Paris chicks. Or he was a tailor Parish when you you're gonnas leave control? Yeah right, I want you to tell a caro everyd acter. Did you go on the lower Bigtis or are you sick calling the jail up in the pet We went in there, the zip ron and well we went in there. We had a or six idea him, he did me and then we started having six. Year you know, I was on the wall and he was over any feel like yeah, okay. That is the audio of Nicole being interviewed by Danny Simms, who we talked about earlier, Terry Gilliory, who we have been talking about this whole series. And it's really eerie to think that Nicole came forward. And said that she said she had a sexual. Intercourse with one of the jailers and it was likely happening to more than just her. I know, the audio wasn't the clearest because it's old audio. It's from a police interview and it was on the Murder in the Bayou documentary and I recorded it and then I played it, so no It's not the greatest quality audio, but you get the gist of what is going on. And she reported this and is being interviewed by two people who are mentioned throughout the story of the Jeff Davis eate and it's really eerie thinking back to that, knowing that Nicole was going to be the last victim of the Jeff Davis eight coincidence. I don't think so in my opinion. And Nicole, I think, is a really interesting person to talk about because she was the last victim and she said she knew who the person was who was perpetrating these murders. Nicole's family said that after the first victim, Loretto, was murdered in two thousand and five, Nicole became extremely paranoid. She would lock herself in her room. She wouldn't come out of her room. She told her family that she actually witnessed somebody being murdered and people that were close to Laconia. Muggy Brown ended up going to the task force and said that Laconia had seen Loretta floating in the water before Loretta was found by this fishermen. Kristin Lopez also was interrogated in Loretta's case by none other than Terry Gillery. Christin ended up being pulled into a room at the jail. The door was closed and they ended up interrogating her. Kristin was very upset and shaken and refused to say anything to anyone after that, almost like she was threatened. Muggy Brown was also interviewed. As a witness into Ernestine Patterson's death. Britney Gary allegedly said that Uncle Frankie had killed Whitney du Bois, and Crystal Zino told Britney Gary that she knew who killed Laconia Muggy Brown. There is so much going on here, with so many connections between these girls and their murders, and there's just too much for it not. To be coincidental. Not saying it's one person, because I don't think it's one person, just to be clear, but there is something so tightly woven in the city of Jennings with these murders, law enforcement, these girls, Frankie Richard. It's all just way too coincidental in my opinion. So according to Nicole's mom, she said Nicole knew who did this all along, and Nicole had told and confided in her mom that it was the police killing these girls. And there was a witness who ended up going to the task Force and said Nicole was going to be the next victim, and she's sure as heck was this person went to the task Force prior to Nicole dying, saying. Nicole Guillory is going to. Be the eighth victim in the Jeff Davis eight or the Jennings eight and she was so, what in the hell is going on in Jennings. I've said that that is my motto for this series, What in the hell is going on in Jennings, Louisiana. So in January of twenty fourteen, Ethan Brown ended up publishing a piece on a website. The website is called Medium in regards to the Jeff Davis eight case. He said that after the piece was published, the outpouring of tips was incredible. He received a message from a reporter who said that he was an expert on the kkk Ku Klux Klan and he was working on a story about a clan informant that was in jeff Davis Parish who was also a police officer. Stay with me here. He said that the police officer said that they have information about someone who happens to be named Terry Gilliery. We then meet a man named Raymond Mott. He was a police officer with Lake Arthur Police Department and at one point in time, Terry Gilliery was his boss. Now, there was a picture of Raymond that ended up emerging of him at a KKK rally and he ended up being fired from the Lake Arthur Police Department because of this photo. At least that's the way that it was. Fun So Raymond said that he is not going to deny it is him in the picture, but there's a story behind it. He said that he and a friend went to a rally in North Carolina and it was supposed to be a protest in regards to illegal immigration and the bad effects of illegal immigration on the justice system, so. On and so forth. And he said when he got home and. Realized that it was not that it was a KKK rally, he had some regrets because, like I said, when he got there, it wasn't what he thought it was. So he ended up basically compiling a file about the clan, and he gave info to an FBI agent on this clan and this chapter and what they were doing. They were basically lying to get people to come, so on and so forth. So the Louisiana State Charter of the KKK lost all of their members as a result of this stuff being turned over by Raymond. So Raymond said that the photo at the rally was basically used against him because at that time he had brought up suspicions on none other than Terry Gillery. Raymond said that he worked in narcotics and he was always making drug bus because that was his job, and they would often be in the paper that this guy, Raymond Mott made another drug bust, made another drug bust, and he said that during this time, he said he and Terry would discuss his job performance, and Terry told him he couldn't work in a small town and do drug bus like he was living and working in a large town. He basically told him he needed to stop making drug busts aka stopped doing your job, which makes no sense. And then right after this. The KKK photo was released and he was fired. So Raymond thinks he was an obstruction to Terry's agenda. Raymond had also talked with Ethan Brown about Terry Gilliery and Crystal Zeno. Now there was a time that Raymond was dispatched to Crystal's sisters residence and she was in hysterics and Raymond very much tried to calm her down, and she said that she didn't trust the police because Terry Gillery had killed her sister. Raymond had heard Terry's name before in regard to the Jeff Davis eate. He even said that he talked to him about it, and he said Terry looked at him in the eye and said, you can believe about ninety five percent of what you hear. He said that to him, it almost felt like he was confessing to him. Later that day, he said Terry was sitting outside called Raymond over and said, try to do the right thing, because your demons will come back and they will find you. He then talked about the Jeff Davis eight and said he knew things that would blow him away. And it wasn't just one person who killed those girls, it was several different ones. So with this, Raymond decided he was going to make a police report on the incident. Of course, however, Terry Gilliory was the one checking the reports, so nothing came of that. Do you see how twisted this whole thing is, none of it makes any sense because the people that are maybe allegedly possibly potentially involved are the ones who are getting. The report, so of course they're not going to do anything about it, which is probably why this case is. Still pulled after all of these years, in my opinion. So Bucky and Tanny, along with Ethan Brown, were in the process of putting all of this information. Together to turn over to the FEDS about. The police misconduct allegedly during the Jeff Davis eight era, and they think that the Jeff David Sheriff's Department needs to turn over the case to the FBI. Ethan couldn't figure out why the case still wasn't solved. It didn't make any sense, and I don't think it does. It doesn't make any sense why this still isn't solved. So Ethan went back to the whole boudreau In thing and why was it still operational even during everything that was going on with all the law enforcement presence at the boudreau In over the years and everything that happened, It didn't make sense that it had stayed open. So there was some gambling that was going on at the boudreau In and they had a gambling license, and the standards for having a gaming license are super super high, so there's no way that they wouldn't have lost that with everything that is documented that went on there without law enforcing protection, so it begs the question who was protecting the boudreau in. Ethan said that he had heard that there was some powerful people behind the business of the boudreau in and that you had to be careful of it. So as he dug further in, he learned of a man who was called big g. Somebody had told Ethan that the G stood for Gillory. Now that is a super super common name in jeff Davis Parish. It's kind of like the last name is Smith, were Williams. We've already learned of two Guillories in our story, so it is a super common name. So Ethan dug a little bit. Further and he was able to pull the least for the boudreau In, and the name on the lease was somebody named Martin Gilliery. Martin lived a little bit east of Jennings. He had run for different local political offices. So Ethan had a phone call with him and he asked him that if he knew of any criminal activity at the Boudreau Inn, and he had said no. He asked about the. Jeff Davis eight and Martin said that he knew or had met them, one or two of them, but other than that he had nothing to do with anything. Ethan said in the summer of twenty eleven, he had just met Frankie Richard and Frankie would often call Ethan on his cell phone and give him. Tips or things he thought were tips, and one time he said, do you know about Charles Bustani. You need to investigate him. Now here's where it becomes extremely alleged, because I am not trying to get in trouble for any of this. This is all from the documentary. This is all alleged. So Charles Bustani was a congressman in Louisiana and he was running for the US State Senate in twenty sixteen. He ran on a conservative platform and he ran on a whole family value platform as well. As Ethan looked more into Martin Gillery, he found that he was actually a field rep for Charles Bustani. So that's kind of the connection there. So what did Charles have to do with the Boujo Inn and the Jeff Davis Eight. That was the question. Ethan spoke was someone related to Nicole Gillery, and they said one day they were out walking with Nicole before her murder, and they had past yard signs for Charles Bustani and Nicole said she knew him from the Boudreau In. A friend of Kristen said she also spoke of Charles Bustani. She said she had sex with him, he. Paid her, and then they fought, but the friend didn't know why they fought. They didn't have any idea. Kristen didn't explain anything further than that. Frankie Richard said there was a rumor that Loretto was one of Charles's favorite girls. They then go on to ask Martin Gillery about Charles and ask him about his presence at the Boudreau Inn. He said that he never went to the Boujerin, and when he asked Martin if Charles knew any of the Jeff Davis Eight, he said, of. Course not, he didn't know them. Martin got pretty heated at this point and said this was all unfounded and not true. Ethan would go on to write about these claims in his book, and of course Charles denies everything, like I said, said it's all lies, and said everything was politically motivated. They then go on to show a news clip of Charles being interviewed and they ask about Martin and Charles said that he did not know that Martin ran the Boudreau in that that was a hidden thing that Martin didn't share with Charles. And it was just a really interesting interview because Charles is denying all of this. Of course, I mean as. You would, but in the whole interview, in my opinion, I think Charles looks extremely uncomfortable, and it could be a situation where he was connected to something at some point and the murders happened and he was like, WHOA, I want nothing to do with this. He's obviously a political person. He doesn't want to be involved in stuff like that. That very well could be the case. Or maybe he's completely not involved at all, and his name. Just happens to be kind of tied in because of his relationship with Martin Gillery. We really don't know. But Ethan writes about all of this in his book, and in twenty sixteen, Charles Bustandi sued Ethan over allegations made in the book Murder in the Bayou, Charles ended up losing his primary race, and from there he dismissed the charges. Charles was reached out to for. Comment for this documentary and all he said was he did visit the Boudo in once to host a small town hall meeting and ended up never returning. He denied any involvement with the Jeff Davis eight. Ethan says charles alleged involvement didn't necessarily mean he was involved in any way with the murders, just that there is another layer of power involved that would prevent it from being solved. Ethan was hopeful that the book would help with the. Investigation, but unfortunately that really didn't happen. It did give some new eyes and ears on the case, but other than that, the investigation really didn't get any further than where it had kind of been. Bucky Tally and Ethan have tried and tried to get Ivy Woods, who is now the sheriff, to work. With them, but requests have gone unanswered. Law enforcement said that as a recording of Murder in the Bayou, they were still actively investigating things. Frankie Richard remains a person of interest. They hooked Frinky up at one point to a lie detector test because he wanted to clear his name. He was asked about Kristen's murder during the lie detector test. He denied everything, of course, and let me tell you, watching the footage of the lie detector test, it was so uncomfortable. Frankie looked so stressed out. Frankie's polygraph results ended up being inconclusive. Frankie said that one day the truth will be known. They and the documentary by circling back to the family and everyone said the same thing. They aren't going to give up. They just need someone to come forward. Somebody knows something. Terry Gilliory has never been charged in anything. He at the time of the recording of the documentary was still active in law enforcement and was working at the Welsh Police Department in jeff Davis Parish. Ricky Edwards, as of twenty nineteen, worked for a lobbying group in Louisiana. Frankie Richard was arrested when the documentary aired on charges. Of drugs and prostitution. Frankie died in March of twenty twenty at the age of sixty four. His obituary included the sentiment that Frankie loves spending time with his family and friends. Frankie was loved by many and will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him, So that is kind of where the documentary leaves off. Obviously, years have passed since that. We've had a whole pandemic come and go since the documentary was released. So in my research, I found this article that was published by the Westside Journal, and it is titled by Justice port. Allen Jennings murders may be linked. I'm going to summarize this article, but I'm going to read the first portion of it to kind of give you an overview of what we're going to be talking about, and then I'm going to talk about some of the aspects of the article. In May of this year, the editor of the Westside Journal asked me to review three port Allen homicides, studying the facts surrounding the murders of Fratrell Queen, Dedrick Jackson, and Larry Prophet. I found myself haunted by something a cute serial killer, Frankie Richard said to me shortly before his death. Now, Frankie Richard is quoted as saying, no serial killer got them girls in Jennings. Then people responsible kill snitches up and down, I tent in Lake, Charles Betton, Rouge, Hammond, just all over. But killing black guys doesn't put you on national news unless you're a cop end quote. That is what Frankie Richard allegedly said. So. On November two of twenty seventeen, just after five a m. A detective with the Port Allen Police Department had contacted a woman named Tara Snerl through social media and and she ended up calling. The detective back and the detective said. That there was a shooting at the house that Tara owned, and Tara. Ended up going to the house. Investigators told her that they weren't able to locate the single occupant of the home, which was her son who was named Fatrell Queen, and they said that he was missing. He was twenty eight years old. And then right before noon they did say that they had located Fatrell and that he was in a bedroom closet and he had been shot multiple times and unfortunately was killed. He had a two and a half year old daughter, he had just gotten custody of her, and he had a good relationship with her. Tara was kind of confused as to why they didn't find his body earlier, because they were on scene at five am and they didn't find his body until noon, and they said that because his body was in a closet that's why they didn't find him until later. Tara had also noticed that there was some damage to her son's car. That was at the residence, and when she asked investigators about it, they said that they had basically gone into. The car and searched looking for. His body before they ended up finding him in the closet. Tara also said that she read in the paper that the police said that when they arrived at the residence that morning, they smelled gunpowder in the house and there was an open closet with no doors on it where he was found, and it took them hours to find him. It just doesn't make any sense. The police told her that they found no signed a forced entry, yet she said both of the front and back doors appeared to have damaged to them when she ended up arriving at the house, and it was her house, so I'm sure she would know if her doors were damaged or not. Prior the other thing She said that really upset her is that they never really went through and thoroughly conducted a proper investigation. They kind of acted like they knew who did it. They didn't question any family. They questioned maybe a friend or to a nephew. And the closet where he was found they left behind some bloody clothes and a shellcasing, which is evidence. We all know that they never checked any security camera footage in the area to see if any perpetrators were seen at the house prior. They never looked at any of that. Fatrell was a avid football lover and he loved basketball. He worked as a package handler for a retail warehouse and had recently celebrated his birthday and like I said, he had just received custody of his daughter. But the police describe him as a career criminal. Tara says that is ridiculous. He was arrested a few times, but he only went to jail one time, and. That was years ago. In March of twenty fourteen, there was a multi agency task force that arrested Fatrell and twenty two others following a six month sting operation, and it was called the Marty Gral cleanup, and it was basically people being charged with various drug possession charges and distribution charges, and. He was involved in that. Tara said that he spent thirty days in jail and then his daughter was born right after that, and said there was no way he would have gotten custody if he was. Still having ongoing legal issues. So there were rumors that Fatrell was working as a confidential informant for a federal drug task force, but Tara did not believe that to be true. In the years since Fatrell's death, Tara has fought to have her son's case turned over to the Louisiana State Police. She also worked to have an independent Citizen's Oversight Board established to monitor activities of the Port Allen Police Department and act as a communication conduit to the public because there is no denying that there is some shady movement going on in the Port Allen Police Department, just like the Jeff Davis Parish Police Department, Jenny the Police Department, they all intersect and go together. So next, we're going to talk about a man named Ddrik Jackson. He was killed on January twenty ninth of twenty nineteen. He was nineteen years old. He was shot and killed in front of his home in Port Allen. At the scene there was the Port Allen police chief. He told reporters that he believed his police department was doing well solving crimes, and he has quoted as saying, we actually have one unsolved murder, so that's pretty good. We just have one. We are very thankful for that end quote. Now. The following November, Larry. Prophet, who was a sixty two year old community activist. He was known for his stand against violence. He attended a port Allen City council meeting and he got up there and he asked attendees which of these homicides has this chief solved? The murder of ddrich Jackson or the murder of Fatrell Queen. They both are unsolved at this point, so he was trying to figure out, you know, the police chief said that they had only one unsolved murder, so he was trying to figure out which one they solved. And wouldn't you know, the following morning, a passerby found Larry Prophet's body lying in the street on the same road where Didrich Jackson died. Neighbors were called here in gunshots at profits home that night, but failed to call nine to one one, which is a whole different issue for a different day. So thirty minutes away, in a town called Abbeyville, FBI crime statistics record the deaths of ten black men in the last three years, which is a lot of deaths and most of those remain unsolved today. Now this was published in twenty twenty. Keep that in mind. So Tara Snerl, who is the mother of Petrell Queen, is just. Outraged, just like the mothers in Abbeville, like everyone is about all this. There is a quote from a woman named Denise Boudreaux, and she. Is quoted as saying, we died when they died. We felt the pain. We still feel the pain, and nobody wants to listen, nobody wants to care, nobody wants to help get these murderers off the street. She is one of the victims' mothers. Her son was shot and killed in May, six months after Larry Prophet's murder, Police arrested can Tell Brown, Donald Nelson, Reginald Franklin, and Darien Harrison, charging each of them with first degree murder in the shooting of Ddrich Jackson, a grand jury released all four two months later, saying. That there was a lack of evidence in the case. This is the same stuff that I was telling you throughout the whole Jennings eight case, all three parts. People arrested, people let go. People arrested, people let go, time and time and time again. Denise Boudreau goes on to say, something's wrong with our system when people can kill your child and still run free, still making threats, getting locked up, but when the television cameras are off, they're back on the streets, hunting like animals, no worse. Wild animals don't hunt twenty four hours a day. These monsters hunt twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty. Five days a year. Frankie Richard had said that in all of these communities people are afraid to get involved. Somebody knows something about these killings, and they're either afraid of the cartel, scared of being killed themselves, or somebody's paying them off. That is what Frankie Verschard said before he died. So when I ran across that article, I thought this is way too coincidental to not be some part of something. Because Frankie Verschard's name is in there, and it's Port Arthur, which is right by Jennings. There was a lot of crossover with Port Arthur Police Department and the Jennings Police Department, Jeff Davis Parished Police Department. It all kind of coincides. So there there is probably a connection here, and I don't think we all have to be geniuses to see what the connection is. Why are investigators not wanting to solve these cases? What are they hiding? Why aren't these cases getting solved? Is the real question. So Tara, who is Fratrell's mom, decided to start the Justice for Fatrell organization and she hosts annual events to try and stop violence in. Memory of her son. His murder to this day remains unsolved. Now, I couldn't find anything about Ddrich Jackson or Larry Prophet's death other than the initial reporting of them losing their lives. There doesn't appear to have been any movement on their cases, and that is unacceptable. There's not even an. Article posted three years down the line talking about it. So these cases are not getting the attention that they need. I hope mentioning them on. This podcast episode does give them a little bit attention brings some new eyes and ears onto their cases and makes people realize that there are so many more like them out there. The media forgets very quickly, but their families have to live with this every single day, and there's no justice when stuff is swept under the rug by those that are supposed to be protecting us. I think that is the lesson we can all take from this Jennings eight series is that regardless of who did kill the Jennings eight, if it was one person, if it was several people, if it was all this big scheme to harm these girls and keep them quiet, it doesn't change the fact that there's a lot of underhandedness going on in Jennings, Louisiana when it comes to these cases, and it goes on everywhere. It's not just Jennings. It happens all the time, all over And that is one thing that I don't want to say it's arise, because I did know that there was some crooked, underhanded small town vibes going on, good old folk vibes going on around our country. But time and time again I come across these stories and they have one thing in common, and it is this, So I hope that this series, this Jennings eight series, really does help draw more attention to the case. I feel like Ethan Brown and his team and all of the work he did drew so much attention to it, and I just hope that there is more attention brought to it for the following years until it is finally solved. Because this case is very solvable. All eight of these murders are very solvable, and there is common threads woven amongst throughout all of them, so it's all really very interesting and it is such a rabbit hole. I have no idea what I was getting into when I decided to take on at the Jennings eight. No idea, but I'm glad that I was to do it, and I feel like I got to know our victims, got to know these women by their names, by their faces. I know a little bit about them. I learned a little bit about their family just from the Murder and the BYU documentary. So please guys check out the Murder and the BYU documentary. I have it linked in all three of the episodes under the show notes. There's also the Murder in the Buyu book, which I also have linked. You can buy that that was done by Ethan Brown. Like I said, Ethan Brown gets all the credit for this whole series because. Without him, none of this stuff would have really come to light, and without the family's friends of the victims speaking out, a lot of this wouldn't have come to light either. So I do have to give them credit and acknowledgment for all that they have done. And at the end of the day, all we can hope for is that this case will eventually be solved and will know who harmed the girls, why they harmed the girls, and hopefully their families can receive the justice that they so desperately need, and this case is no longer cold. That is the ultimate end goal here. So I thank you guys so much for listening to the Jennings eight series. We have finally made it to the end and I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend ahead and I will see you next week for a brand new unsolved case. Bye.