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The 22-year-old Vacherie man had been missing since he jumped from the Veterans Memorial Bridge in St. James Parish on Aug. 23. His body was taken to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office, which confirmed his identity, state police said.
Laurent is a suspect in the slaying of Anita McDonald, 22, of Flowood, Miss., whose body was found in a room on the third floor of a Jefferson Parish motel. She had been asphyxiated and had ligature marks on her neck and wrists, according to police.
Police are also investigating Laurent in the strangulation of Jateese Hudgins, 22, of Philadelphia, in a Metairie motel.
Both women had histories of prostitution, police have said.
Laurent is also a suspect in several Baton Rouge crimes against prostitutes and in an attack at a motel on the West Bank of the Mississippi River in Jefferson Parish.

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Laurent, who jumped from the Gramercy Bridge after a high-speed chase with State Police, is a suspect in two murders in Jefferson Parish both involving alleged prostitutes at hotels. 
Police detectives say tattoos on the body pulled from the river are consistent with Laurent’s. An autopsy is coming later this week.
Laurent, 22, of Vacherie, has been missing since he jumped from the Veterans Memorial Bridge in St. James Parish Aug. 23.
He is a suspect by Kenner Police in the murder of Anita McDonald, 22, of Flowood, Miss., at the Comfort Inn Suites. McDonald’s body was found in a room on the third floor of the hotel. She had been asphyxiated and had ligature marks on her neck and wrists, according to police.
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Victims in both the Kenner and Metairie murders were strangled, police said, and both had histories of prostitution.
Laurent is also a suspect in several Baton Rouge crimes against prostitutes and in an attack at a West Bank motel.

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In the Jefferson Parish cases, Laurent is thought to have contacted women who posted advertisements on the website backpage.com, met them at their motel rooms, bound their hands and choked them. Only the Harvey victim survived, and officials said she has since identified Laurent as her attacker. As in McDonald’s killing, Laurent didn’t have sex with Hudgins or the Harvey victim, the Normand said.
Authorities were already looking into Laurent when McDonald was killed in Kenner, although they didn’t have physical evidence linking him to either Hudgins’ killing in Metairie or the Harvey attack, Normand said. After Hudgins’ death, Jefferson investigators began interviewing prostitutes and found a woman who experienced a similar assault when she lived in Baton Rouge, Normand said. The Jefferson Sheriff’s Office contacted Baton Rouge authorities, who were working on two cases of women that had been assaulted in a similar fashion.

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Video footage taken seconds before a murder outside an IHOP in eastern New Orleans last year and shown on YouTube helped convict a 27-year-old man in the shooting — one of two murder convictions that Orleans Parish juries returned last week.
By an 11-1 count, a jury convicted Carl Labat in the slaying of Travis Anderson, 25, who was shot a dozen times in the parking lot of the pancake house on I-10 Service Road.
Labat and Anderson had been involved in an altercation the night before at Passions, a strip club, and witnesses said Labat had announced a threat against Anderson outside the apartment complex of the victim’s family about 20 minutes before the shooting.
Police said Labat and his girlfriend, Sheena Edwards, 25, had argued with Anderson at the strip club, where Edwards worked as a dancer. The couple allegedly told Anderson that they would kill him, flashing 9 mm and .40-caliber handguns while pledging to track Anderson down.

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… Brouillette was born in Marksville, La., in 1936. When he was 17, he borrowed his brother’s Harley Davidson motorcycle and departed for New Orleans looking for excitement. He found it, and spent 50 years working with the city’s Mafia and other criminal characters.
  In Mr. New Orleans, “Frenchy” tells stories about people he knew such as Carlos Marcello, head of the New Orleans Mafia. Also included is a section on ex-Gov. Edwin Edwards, Frenchy’s cousin, who was born in Marksville, La., in 1927. (Edwards’ mother was a Brouillette.) And “Frenchy” has his own theory about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
  FBI records show Kent Brouillette was arrested eight times between June 1964 through April 1970 on charges ranging from pandering, maintaining a house of prostitution, conspiracy to commit prostitution and related illegal activity.

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Not every combat veteran emerges from war with this sense of dislocation. For some, an extreme life experience — war, trauma, a natural disaster — can give their lives new meaning. After the hurricane, I relocated to Virginia, where, working on a story for the local newspaper, I interviewed J.R. Martinez, a then-22-year-old Army corporal from Shreveport, Louisiana. Martinez had suffered burns over 40 percent of his body when he drove a Humvee over a landmine in Karbala, Iraq, and was trapped inside. 
At a fundraiser where he was helping raise money for other veterans injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, Martinez pulled off his knit cap to show me the breast implant that was embedded under the skin of his skull to expand the skin, which would be grafted onto other, scarred parts of his body. I suggested that when he was done with it, he donate the breast implant to a stripper who had only one breast implant, and we laughed. At the time, Martinez had undergone over two-dozen surgeries. For the most part, he was cheery and upbeat. It seemed through what had happened to him, he had found his purpose.

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Kenner man accused of posing as a cop to extort sex and money from prostitute
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Authorities have arrested a Kenner man accused of posing as a police officer to extort sex and money from a prostitute in exchange for his “protection.” Leo Driscoll IV, 23, is accused of conning the unidentified victim out of several hundreds of dollars and twice-weekly sex sessions since May, according Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway.
Kenner detectives uncovered the scam last week while investigating the murder of Anita McDonald, the 22-year-old prostitute strangled Aug. 22 at the Comfort Suites motel, 2710 Idaho Ave., Kenner. A day after the murder, police received an anonymous tip about possible prostitution activity at the motel, Caraway said. The caller described seeing a lot of people coming and going from a particular room.

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Published: Saturday, August 27, 2011, 11:59 PM
New Orleans surrendered without a shot on April 29, 1862, to a Union fleet after a few futile days of civic defiance. The fleet, commanded by Adm. David Farragut, had blasted past forts Jackson and St. Philip on the Mississippi on April 25.
The city was indefensible, and Confederate troops withdrew. On May 4th, an occupying army moved in under the command of the infamous Gen. Benjamin Butler, beginning years of occupation, but sparing New Orleans damage.
Butler was hated for his heavy-handed tactics and corruption, earning the nickname “Beast.” His most controversial act was an attempt to punish women who were rude to Union troops on the streets by treating them as prostitutes. General Order No. 28 appeared on page 2 of The Picayune on May 16.

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Having concluded that Kylan Laurent attacked prostitutes at three motels and stole their personal belongings, Jefferson Parish authorities are trying to determine whether he targeted other women, too. One reason for their curiosity: Searches of his car and home turned up 22 wireless phones.
“I think we’re going to find more” victims, Sheriff Newell Normand said Friday.
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Authorities were already looking into Laurent when McDonald was murdered in Kenner, although they didn’t have physical evidence linking him to either Hudgins’ killing in Metairie or the Harvey attack, Normand said. After Hudgins’ death, Jefferson investigators began interviewing prostitutes and found a woman who experienced a similar assault when she lived in Baton Rouge, Normand said. The Jefferson Sheriff’s Office contacted Baton Rouge authorities who were working on two cases of women that had been assaulted in a similar fashion.

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Posted: Friday, 26 August 2011 4:02PM JP Sheriff: More victims of murder suspect likely Chris Miller Reporting
How many more victims will authorities find as they continue their investigation into a man suspected of killing local prostitutes? 
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s officials Friday said that despite the suspect flinging himself off a bridge earlier this week to a likely death, they don’t think the case is closed yet.
“I think we’re going to find more (victims),” Sheriff Newell Normand stated, after the discoveries investigators made when searching the property of Kyland Laurent — suspected of murdering two prostitutes at motels in Kenner and Metairie during the month of August.
VIDEO: Dash-cam footage of the car chase and suspect jumping off bridge.
Normand says the more they look into it, the more likely it is that people who had encounters with the suspected killer will come forward.
“The more people that we put our hands onand talk to, the…potential for more victims that reveal themselves,” N …

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