Moonlight Murder On Lake Palourde

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4.5 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The LaBoeuf Triangle

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Episode 328 revisits one of our favorite tropes: The Love Triangle Gone Awry. The people involved here weren't rich and famous, but just ordinary people, tragically caught up in their passion.

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0:03.0	Morgan City, Louisiana, July 7th, 1927.
0:15.0	The body of James J. Labuff, superintendent of Louisiana Public Utilities Company, who had been mutilated,
0:23.6	shot and gagged, was found weighted down in irons in a lake near here today. There were two
0:31.2	buckshot wounds in the left side and powder burns on the flesh. There was also a long
0:37.4	incision in the abdomen,
0:39.3	apparently made to ensure the sinking of the body.
0:42.3	The head and feet were weighted down with iron.
0:46.3	At the coroner's inquest Thursday afternoon,
0:49.3	a member of the coroner's staff stated that the incision
0:53.3	had evidently been made by one expert with surgical
0:57.0	instruments. He had been missing from his home here since Friday when he is said to have left in a boat
1:04.4	borrowed from a friend. The body was identified by members of the family and friends.
1:16.4	He is not known to have had any enemies, and police say they know of no motive for the attack.
1:22.2	A coroner's inquest resulted in a verdict of murder at the hands of parties unknown.
1:29.3	The sheriff arrived here today from Franklin and immediately began an investigation. Mr. LaBeuff had been shot apparently with a shotgun.
1:33.3	A load of shot was in his side.
1:36.3	Mr. LeBuff was not known to have had any enemies.
1:40.3	He was popular and of a peaceable disposition.
1:43.3	Nothing was thought of his absence until Sunday, as it was thought he had He was popular and of a peaceable disposition.
1:50.8	Nothing was thought of his absence until Sunday, as it was thought he had decided to make a cruise of several days.
1:57.0	Searchers along the lake this morning saw the body, part of which was above the surface.
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