body found

The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office has confirmed that the human remains of a person found earlier this week inside a car at a truck stop have been identified.

A body was found inside a car at a truck stop in Port Allen on Sunday morning and it could be that of a missing woman from the Lafayette area.

The St. Martinville Police Department received a call on Tuesday afternoon that possible skeletal remains were located in the area of Isadore St.

St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux announced this afternoon that his office has arrested and booked a 16-year-old male juvenile suspect in connection with a homicide in Breaux Bridge yesterday afternoon.

The identity of the person has not been released.

The West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office responded to a call around 7:00 am that a tugboat had spotted the body in the river.

An Amite woman has been arrested after human remains were found underneath an unoccupied home on Friday, June 24.

Officials are working to figure out the best way to get the body out of the water.

A second man's body has been recovered from Toledo Bend Lake after a fishing trip went awry for two men this past weekend.

An autopsy will be conducted Monday to confirm the cause of death.

The body of a woman was found in Lake Ponchartrain on Monday, May 31, two days after Causeway Police say a woman jumped off the bridge near the Metairie side on Saturday.

St. Mary Parish Sheriff Blaise Smith says that Melancon has booked with second-degree murder charges.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it has recovered the body of a missing boater after a crash near the Butte La Rose Visitor Center Boat Launch last week.

The Natchitoches Sheriff's Department recovered the body and vehicle of a woman who has been missing since 1993 in the Cane River on Monday.

A Southern University student was found dead in Lake Pontchartrain on Thursday afternoon after being missing for two weeks.

Family members told KATC-TV 3 earlier on Monday (3/8/21) that the man's body had been found under the Basin Bridge near Whiskey Bay close to where his car was found abandoned yesterday.

A Lafayette Consolidated Government work crew cleaning a coolly near Hillside Drive found a dead body on Friday.

The body found Tuesday morning is being identified as 58-year-old Donny Joseph Jacobs of Sunset, according to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office.

An investigation is underway in St. Martin Parish for a body that was found Friday morning at Lake Martin.

Lafayette Police report a body was found this morning in a Lafayette park.