02/23/2012 09:50 AM by AP
GONZALES, La. (AP) - Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies say State Police Crime Laboratory experts were going over a damaged safe looking for evidence that might connect it to the robbery-killings … Click to Read More and see additional updates
02/23/2012 09:50 AM by AP
GONZALES, La. (AP) - Ascension Parish sheriff's deputies say State Police Crime Laboratory experts were going over a damaged safe looking for evidence that might connect it to the robbery-killings that left two dead and one critically injured.
Deputies found three people Saturday with their throats slashed in their Gonzales home.
Chief Deputy Tony Bacala says 74-year-old Richard Irwin Marchand was dead, along with his 50-year-old stepson, Douglas Dooley. Marchand's 72-year-old wife, Shirley, remains in critical condition in a hospital.
Bacala says the apparent motive was a safe containing a collection of gold coins valued at an estimated $500,000, which was taken from the home.
The Advocate reports Livingston Parish authorities recovered a safe Monday afternoon that matches descriptions family members gave of the missing safe that contained the gold coins.
02/21/2012 07:55 AM by AP
GONZALES, La. (AP) - Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information in a case in which home invaders slit the throats of a couple in their 70s and the woman's 50-year-old son, killing both men and leaving the woman critically injured.
The Advocate says the reward is for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. Deputies were sent to the house late Saturday because relatives had been unable to reach the family by phone, and broke in when nobody answered the door.
They found Shirley Marchand, 72, still alive and the bodies of her son, Douglas Dooley, and husband, Robert Irwin Marchand.
Their throats had been cut and they appeared to have been bludgeoned.
Authorities say a coin collection worth $500,000 was like the motive in the robbery and attack.
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