BRIAN SEGURA WANTED FOR CARRIE BILLEAUD MURDER

A COLD case that has lain dormant for more than six years could finally see an arrest made this week.
Back in December 2004 Carrie Billeaud's battered body was found in her water well and supply store in New Iberia, LA.
But with few leads the case went cold, until earlier this week when Sheriff Louis Ackal announced that Brian Segura as a person of interest in the case.
The 30-year-old was allegedly a regular at her store, is already in custody on unrelated charges.
Sheriff Ackal told the Daily Iberian:  "It is still an ongoing investigation, we are working with the District Attorney's office here in Iberia Parish on the case."
"Until we (DA) have both agreed on the circumstance on the case file itself, we're not going to make any comments until then."As for Segura, he will appear in court Monday on charges of aggravated kidnapping and armed robbery. Police say he held a woman and her child at knife-point in March, and forced the victim to get money out of an ATM.
Segura also faces attempted first degree murder charges for allegedly taking a jailer hostage using a homemade shank in July. He remains in the Iberia Parish Jail.

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ARREST MADE IN CANDY LADY MARY WRIGHT MURDER

KILLER?

CANDY LADY

SHE was a beloved grandma, known locally as the Candy Lady, because she gave out sweets and treats to the children in her Lubbock, TX neighborhood.
But Mary Wright's delightful tradition came to an end, after cops found her brutally stabbed body on her home. 
Concerned neighbors who had raised the alarm because they hadn't seen her for a few days, were stunned by the news that the popular pensioner had been taken from them.
Former city councilman T. J. Patterson, told KCBD that Davis was well known and thought of adding:
"She wasn't the mayor of Lubbock, she was just Ms. Davis, the candy lady that cared about human beings."
With no immediate leads, even from DNA processing, the case quickly went ice cold. 
A police insider revealed: "It was really frustrating. This was a senseless death of a very popular lady. There was not one person who did not want to see justice for such a heinous crime." 
But in recent months, detectives resubmitted evidence that was recovered at the original scene in hopes that advances in DNA technology would possibly open a new lead in the case.
And the results came back with a match - previously unknown suspect, Clarence Lee Hooker, 46, who was already behind bars on an unrelated charge.
As a result detectives continued the investigation using this new information and eventually were able to submit a murder charge.

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$10,000 REWARD FOR INFO ON CLEO BURDETTE MURDER

$10,000 REWARD

A $10,000 reward has been put up for any information that will lead to the capture of Cleo Burdette's killer.
Back in August 2004, the 78-year-old's battered body was found on the couch of his Sissonville, WV, home but cops are refusing to reveal anymore details about the baffling case.
Deputies did however find broken windows, a disabled phone line and  someone had clearly ransacked the cattle trader's home.
Lt. Sean Snuffer with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s office said: “We feel that it could have been a robbery that could have gone bad.”
“Investigators have shown that Burdette did have quite a substantial amount of money.”

Snuffer also confirmed that they are still trying to figure out who was driving a car witness saw near the house on the night before the crime. 
 Snuffer added: "We had several witnesses in the area who were just happening to be driving by Mr. Burdette's residence.
"They indicated that a red- or orange-colored Toyota truck was parked near the residence."
Burdette’s younger brother, Jim Burdette, said he kept in touch with his family every day and spoke to his brother the night before he died, and his sister found Cleo Burdette’s body.
He told The State Journal: “It took place after 9:30, because he always called my sister back after he talked to me."

A $10,000 reward is still being offered to find the person responsible for Burdette's murder. Anyone with information about the case is asked to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office.

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