But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes? In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana’s gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer’s identity. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans.
They were killed without the bruises or broken bones that would indicate a struggle.The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. Many were poor, and some had been willing to prostitute themselves for drugs. Most of the 21 men killed the first in 1997 and all by strangling or asphyxiation were 18 to 40 years old. Both were killed in Jefferson Parish, in suburban New Orleans about 45 miles east of Houma, a news release from Mr. Dominique was charged with the second-degree murder of Oliver Lebanks, 27, in October 1998 and the first-degree murder and rape of Manuel Reed, 20, in May 1999. Foti Jr., which had little further comment because the investigation is continuing. Dominique, said the office of Attorney General Charles C. “Scientific, forensic evidence” led to the arrest of the suspect, Ronald J.
1 (AP) Authorities investigating the killing of as many as 21 men in southeastern Louisiana over the last decade arrested a 42-year-old man at a homeless shelter here on Friday and charged him with two of the earliest crimes.
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