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Tyra Tassin

Case from New Orleans, LA dated Sep 03, 1991

Victim Details

Tyra Tassin

Female

Black / African American

New Orleans

LA

1991-09-03

21

Tyra

Tassin

07/12/2026

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Tyra Tassin died in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 3, 1991, after her body was found during a summer when fear was beginning to gather in pockets of the city. She was a 21-year-old Black woman. In the accounts that survived on the record, she is described as a mother of three, and investigators later placed her death near the front edge of a years-long string of killings that would be spoken about under one grim nickname: the Storyville Slayer.

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