CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Near 4 many years after a Louisiana lady was murdered, investigators stated they’ve recognized and charged two folks believed to be chargeable for her demise.
Lafourche Parish sheriff’s deputies traveled to Missouri and Tennessee this week to help within the arrests of Russell Lee and Judith “Judy” Weiser. Each Weiser and Lee are dealing with prices for second-degree homicide and obstruction of justice.
In line with authorities, it was a sequence of current breakthroughs that led to the arrests within the 1986 chilly case. The sufferer, 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux, was reported lacking on Aug. 3, 1986, after disappearing from her dad and mom’ Golden Meadow house about an hour and a half outdoors of New Orleans.
In January 1989, skeletal stays had been discovered about two hours away in Slidell, however detectives stated they might not be correctly recognized on the time. Many years later, in 2022, scientists had been capable of produce a potential picture of the individual’s face, which prompted an nameless tip.
The tipster submitted Boudreaux’s identify, and with DNA proof collected from one in all her surviving relations, investigators had been capable of verify it was a match. Detectives then reopened the case and picked up the investigation from the place that they had left off.
The sheriff’s workplace stated they adopted up with surviving family and friends members, in addition to these with information about Boudreaux’s disappearance. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than they developed Lee and Weiser as individuals of curiosity as a consequence of an alleged love triangle.
In line with officers, Lee was in a relationship with each Weiser and Boudreaux on the time of her homicide. Investigators additionally discovered Lee had amassed a violent prison historical past since 1986, together with prices for aggravated kidnapping, assault, battery, housebreaking and arson.
As well as, detectives stated they found statements and proof implicating them within the crime. By the top of their investigation, officers stated that they had sufficient proof to consider Lee and Weiser killed Boudreaux, dismembered her physique and dumped her stays in Slidell.
They then obtained arrest warrants for each people, monitoring them to 2 totally different states. On Tuesday, July 9, Lee was taken into custody in Missouri with the assistance of the Mountain Grove Police Division.
Weiser was taken into custody a day later in Tennessee. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Workplace reportedly assisted in her arrest.
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Lee and Weiser will quickly be taken again to Louisiana and booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Advanced. Their bail is ready at $1.1 million every.
