He was simply known to fellow hikers as Mostly Harmless or Denim, but as Facebook sleuths and the hiking community dug deeper, they discovered a checkered past...and that checkered past led to South Louisiana.
Since Gypsy Rose's arrest in 2015 for her involvement in her mother's murder, there have been numerous documentaries, docuseries, interviews, and made for TV mini-series about the Louisiana native.
"Butchers of the Bayou", currently trending on Hulu, details the horrors of a decade where Louisianians lived in terror as not one, but two serial killers hunted the neighborhoods and bayous of South Louisiana.
There is a little-known slice out of Lafayette and Acadiana's history that is so horrifying and gruesome, it makes the Charles Manson murders seem like The Mickey Mouse Club...seriously.
The mysterious death of a successful Lafayette oil and gas man has been covered by ABC's 20/20, Dateline NBC, Vanity Fair, and numerous True Crime podcasts because the truth in this case if truly stranger than fiction.
True crime is arguably the most popular genre of entertainment these days, bringing out the armchair detective in all of us. Louisiana is no exception.
When its time for scary movie night, make sure you aren't discounting these true crime documentaries that will have you double checking your doors before bed.
The tragic story of Sharon Marshall told in the new Netflix documentary "Girl in the Picture" has so many twists and turns, that we could give you a play-by-play and it wouldn't accurately even scratch the surface.