Leon Lirette

Leon Paul Lirette, a 22-year-old man, was remembered by loved ones as a young person rooted in south Louisiana, a native and resident of Houma whose life ended in February 2005, long before anyone outside a tight circle of investigators understood how many families were about to be drawn into the same nightmare.

In the years that followed, his name would surface again and again in connection with a string of disappearances and deaths that haunted the bayou country southwest of New Orlean ...

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