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Michael Barnett

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Oct 24, 2004

Victim Details

Michael Barnett

Male

New Orleans

LA

2004-10-24

21

Michael

Barnett

06/24/2026

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On October 24, 2004, a body was found in Bayou Blue in Terrebonne Parish, a rural stretch of south Louisiana where cane fields, waterways, and back roads can swallow a person’s last steps. The victim was Michael Barnett, a 21-year-old white male. The discovery did not arrive with an immediate, tidy narrative—no clear eyewitnesses, no obvious trail of who he had been with in his final hours—only the grim certainty that someone had taken him there and left him behind.

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