
However, the rest of the twenty-seven cases remain unsolved, with six of the victims, including this one, still unidentified. Elwood was convicted of Lewis' murder and the charge for Mack's murder was dropped. The second suspect was a drug dealer and addict named Russel Elwood, who was charged with two of the murders, that of Cheryl Lewis and Dolores Mack. One was Victor Gant, a former New Orleans police officer who had connections with victims Sharon Robinson and Karen Ivester with Gant having a history of domestic abuse against Robinson. This caller, who identified himself as 'Clay,' claimed to be an unidentified serial killer from the New Orleans area. The killings are sometimes referred to as the Storyville Slayings.ĭuring the investigation, there were at least two suspects. 'I never sent the clues, I never left anything, you know, I wanted to add my little signature.' On the morning of 13 August 1997, a mysterious man called into the syndicated radio program of popular shock-jock Howard Stern. Many of the victims were sex workers and/or drug addicts. Louisiana Doe was an individual, possibly a transgender woman, who was found murdered in an unknown part of Louisiana, United States on April 2, 1994.īetween 1991 to 1995, twenty-eight people, twenty-three women, four transgender women, and one individual of unknown gender, were found strangled or suffocated in the New Orleans area.
