Law enforcement in southeast Louisiana report a big break in a 33-year-old missing persons cold case. With help from the LSU FACES lab and DNA technology authorities have identified human – remains found near Slidell by a hunter back in 1989 – as a Lafourche Parish woman, Paula Boudreaux, who vanished in 1986. Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre says what was a missing persons case is now much more…:
“From that point forward, we are taking the position that – until we discover otherwise – foul play or perhaps homicide was involved,” says Webre.
Boudreaux was 22 years old when she disappeared from Golden Meadow in August of ’86. Fast forward three decades, when new and better facial reconstruction technology yielded an image of the victim that resembled photos of Boudreaux (photo comparison pictured above). Family members provided DNA base samples that told investigators the remains were Boudreaux’s. Webre says they will try their best to solve her apparent murder…:
“We are working in conjunction with authorities in St. Tammany, as well as back home, to see if we can successfully identify how Ms. Boudreaux would have been killed and who might have been responsible.”
Because Boudreaux’s remains were found in a wooded area 100 miles from where she disappeared, law enforcement thinks foul play is likely. In the years since she vanished, her son has grown to adulthood and both her parents have passed away. Sheriff Webre says this break in the 33-year-old case at least gives Boudreaux’s remaining family some closure…:
“…but we can now confirm to them…and they can, at some point, get the remains and provide a proper burial.”
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