This is in the parish where I am currently working, just north across Lake Ponchartrain from the New Orleans Metro Area:
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| A woman found slain in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday was shot to death by Raymond "Chuck" Foster, the head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa after she tried to back out of an initiation ritual, St. Tammany Parish authorities announced Tuesday. Investigators have not positively identified the woman yet, but believe she is from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said. She apparently had come to Louisiana by bus after applying to join the organization over the Internet and had intended to start recruiting others in Oklahoma, he said. The woman and eight members of the Klan were in the Sun area camping Sunday night when she apparently attempted to leave, sparking an argument with Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 44, of Bogalusa, who acted as the group's "imperial wizard," Strain said. Foster shot the woman during the argument with a .40-caliber handgun, he said. All eight of the people at the campsite have been arrested, Strain said. After the shooting, Foster and the other seven suspects attempted to hide the crime by digging the bullet out of her body, dumping her in the Pearl River Canal near Lock No. 3 Road and burning the campsite, located on a sandbar in the canal, Strain said. |
