Herbert Stanley Burk III

In the winter of 1996, the community of Elmwood, Louisiana, was unsettled by the death of Herbert Stanley Burk III, a 49-year-old male Navy veteran. His life was cut short on December 29, leaving behind a grieving family and a case that would become woven into the fabric of a much larger and more sinister series of events unfolding in the greater New Orleans area. In the period surrounding Burk's death, a palpable fear had gripped the region as a string of violent crimes and murders plagued the ...