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August Watkins

Case from Houma, LA dated Apr 21, 2005

Victim Details

August Watkins

Male

Black / African American

Houma

LA

2005-04

31

August

Watkins

07/10/2026

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In the quiet bayou country of south Louisiana, the life of August Watkins, a 31-year-old African American man from Houma, was cut short, his death becoming a tragic part of a much larger and more sinister narrative. His body was discovered in a Lafourche Parish ditch, one of several victims in a string of homicides that had begun to instill fear in the community. The cause of his death was determined to be asphyxiation, most likely by strangulation, a grim detail that would later connect his cas ...
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