South Louisiana serial killer? Details link deaths of nine young men

Joseph Brown, 16, of the Boutte area of St. Charles Parish was found alongside the 1000 block of Veterans Boulevard in Kenner in October 1998. He had been suffocated.

Manuel Reed, 20, of New Orleans was found in a Dumpster in the 2400 block of Bainbridge Street in Kenner in May 1999. He had been strangled.

Angel Mejea, 19, was found next to a Dumpster in the 2600 block of Delaware Avenue in Kenner in June 1999. The Dumpster intended for Mejea was full. He had been strangled. Mejea slept wherever he could find a place; his family lived in Boutte (near Brown's family).

Anoka Jones, 26, of Houma was found under a U.S. Highway 90 overpass in Boutte in St. Charles Parish in October 2002. He had been strangled.

Datrell Woods, 18, of Houma was found in a sugarcane field, near Woodlawn Ranch Road in eastern Houma in May 2003. Authorities ruled his cause of death to be asphyxiation due to asthma.

Michael Barnett, 20, of Houma was found in October in a mini-storage unit less than a mile from where Woods' body was found. He had been asphyxiated.

Leon Paul Lirette, 22, of Houma was found under a tree in a field on Houma Airbase off 200 Moffet Road in February. He had been asphyxiated.

August Terrill Watkins III, 31, of Houma was found in a ditch off U.S. Route 90 near Raceland last month. His cause of death could not be determined by autopsy.

Kurt Michael Cunningham, 23, of Houma was found in a drainage canal roughly 50 yards from state Highway 307, last month. Lafourche authorities are still determining what caused his death.