![]() ![]() Instead, he makes the case that the local cops, and the state and federal authorities that came to work with them on the investigation, have known of credible suspects in the murders since at least 2008 and done nothing. ![]() (There was speculation that the first season of True Detective was based on the same case Brown covers, but creator Nic Pizzolatto has denied that.) Brown's new book Murder in the Bayou, is the product of a five-year investigation into the fate of the Jeff Davis 8-eight sex workers, who all ran in the same circles in the small, southwestern Louisiana town of Jennings, and who, one after one, turned up dead in the surrounding swamps from 2005 to 2009.įrom the opening pages, Brown dispenses with the notion, favored by the local Sheriff's Office and once attractive to the national news media, that the killings are the work of a serial killer. In keeping with his past journalism work-doggedly researched and sensitively observed books and articles about street-corner mythology, horrible crimes, the Kafkaesque corners of the legal system, and the survival tactics of marginal people-his latest book is a real-life True Detective story, with more horrifying conclusions than anything on HBO. In his new life, he's still making time for the odd writing project. Ethan Brown is a New York journalist turned private investigator for defense attorneys in New Orleans.
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