So naturally, TheWrap had to ask Brown who he thinks really did it.
Over the course of five episodes, the series delved into candid and personal interviews with the victims’ friends and family, local law enforcement, and even with one of the prime suspects at the center of the investigation: Frankie Richard.īut despite years of investigation by the local sheriff’s office, Louisiana state police, and even the FBI, all eight murders remain unsolved.īrown has been visiting Jennings - the largest city in the parish - since 2011, two years after Guillory’s body was found. All of their bodies discarded in similar ways - either dumped on the side of the road or in bodies of water - the majority were members of the same social circle of sex work, drug use, and, Brown revealed, they were all embroiled in a system of police corruption and informant culture. Killed between 20, the similarities between the women were striking, both in life and death. TheWrap spoke with Brown and Galkin about bringing the murder cases of eight women from Louisiana’s Jefferson Davis Parish to the small screen, and the questions that surround the still-open investigation.īased on Brown’s best-selling novel of the same name, the series followed the murders of eight women who became known as the Jeff Davis 8: Loretta Lynn Chaisson Lewis, Ernestine Marie Daniels Patterson, Kristen Gary Lopez, Whitnei Dubois, Laconia “Muggy” Brown, Crystal Shay Benoit Zeno, Brittney Gary, and Necole Guillory. “Murder in the Bayou” - the Showtime docuseries from investigative journalist Ethan Brown and director Matthew Galkin - aired its fifth and final episode Friday.
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