Credit: UnknownEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenSlaughter, Louisiana, United States · 2022
Lacey Fletcher, a 36-year-old autistic woman in Slaughter, Louisiana, died in January 2022 after years of medical neglect by her parents, who were later convicted of manslaughter in her death.
Credit: USEPA Environmental-Protection-AgencyPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenMacondo Prospect, Mississippi Canyon Block 252, Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast · 2010
An explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers on 20 April 2010, triggering the largest marine oil spill in history and a later federal court finding of gross negligence against BP.
Credit: Not creditedPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 1910s
An unidentified attacker killed and injured multiple people—mostly Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans—in and around New Orleans between May 1918 and October 1919, typically breaking in through a chiseled back-door panel and attacking victims with an axe or razor. The case remains unsolved.
Credit: Hattori family, via English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenBaton Rouge, Louisiana, United States · 1992
In 1992, 16-year-old Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori was fatally shot by homeowner Rodney Peairs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after Hattori and his host brother mistakenly went to the wrong house for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter but later found civilly liable for Hattori's death.
SOLVEDListenLafayette, Louisiana · 2017
Schanda Handley survived an armed abduction from her Lafayette home in 2017; her estranged husband later pleaded guilty to second-degree kidnapping and received a 35-year sentence.
Credit: Photographer not creditedPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenParish Prison, New Orleans, Louisiana · 1891
On March 14, 1891, a mob in New Orleans broke into Parish Prison and killed eleven Italian American men held in connection with the October 1890 killing of police chief David Hennessy, a day after several of the defendants were acquitted at trial. It remains the largest single mass lynching in American history.
SOLVEDListenColfax, Grant Parish, Louisiana · 1873
On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, a mob of armed White men, including former Confederate soldiers, overpowered Black freedmen and state militia occupying the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana, killing between 62 and 153 Black men, most after they had surrendered.
Danziger Bridge, New Orleans, Louisiana · 2005
On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Police Department officers shot six unarmed African-American civilians on the Danziger Bridge, killing James Brissette, 17, and Ronald Madison, a mentally disabled 40-year-old. Officers falsified reports to justify the shootings; five officers were convicted in 2011, had those convictions vacated in 2013 over prosecutorial misconduct, and ultimately pleaded guilty in 2016.
Grand 16 movie theater, Lafayette, Louisiana · 2015
On July 23, 2015, John Russell Houser opened fire during a screening of Trainwreck at the Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing two women and injuring nine others before fatally shooting himself.
Credit: Harris & Ewing, photographerPublic domainSourceCOLDListenLouisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana · 1935
On September 8, 1935, U.S. Senator and former Louisiana Governor Huey Long was shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge and died 31 hours later. Carl Weiss, son-in-law of a judge Long had just moved to remove from office, was killed at the scene by Long's bodyguards; the exact circumstances of Long's fatal wound remain disputed.
The files run from 1866 to 2022. The 2010s hold the most, with 5 files. The oldest is New Orleans Massacre of 1866, from 1866.
They are spread across 9 cities and towns; the most are in New Orleans (6), Baton Rouge (2) and Lafayette (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (11), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and hate crime cases (2).
7 files of the 17 have coverage attached: 11 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 8 creators. The most covered is Killing of Lacey Fletcher, with 5 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, Bella Fiori and Rotten Mango have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Lacey Fletcher — Credit: UnknownEditorial useSource
BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. (15010938489) — Credit: USEPA Environmental-Protection-AgencyPublic domainSource
Axeman Map New Orleans March 1919 — Credit: Not creditedPublic domainSource
Twoboyssidebyside-thedaybook-feb18-1914 — Credit: The Day BookPublic domainSource
Yoshihiro Hattori — Credit: Hattori family, via English WikipediaEditorial useSource
Gathering at Parish Prison New Orleans 14 March 1891 — Credit: Photographer not creditedPublic domainSource
Lake Charles courthouse postcard — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
The Grand 16 Theatre Lafayette Louisiana 2019 — Credit: Larry D. MooreCC BY 4.0Source
File:Huey Long 1935 LOC hec 39385.jpg — Credit: Harris & Ewing, photographerPublic domainSource
17. By status: 4 unsolved, 2 cold, 1 ongoing and 10 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
New Orleans Massacre of 1866, from 1866. Open the file
Killing of Lacey Fletcher, with 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (2 cases), Bella Fiori (1 case) and Rotten Mango (1 case), among 8 creators in all.
New Orleans (6), Baton Rouge (2) and Lafayette (2).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
