“Brown is a man on a mission.he gives the victims more respectful attention than they probably got in real life” ( The New York Times). Mixing muckraking research and immersive journalism over the course of a five-year investigation, Ethan Brown reviewed thousands of pages of previously unseen homicide files to posit what happened during each woman’s final hours delivering a true crime tale that is “mesmerizing” ( Rolling Stone) and “explosive” ( Huffington Post). But what was really going on in the humid rooms of the Boudreaux Inn? Why were crimes going unsolved and police officers being indicted? What had the eight women known? And could anything be done do stop the bloodshed? Rumors of police corruption and evidence tampering, of collusion between street and shield, cast the serial killer theory into doubt. And their underworld activity frequently occurred at a decrepit motel called the Boudreaux Inn.Īs the cases went unsolved, the community began to look inward. They engaged in sex work as a means of survival. The Jeff Davis 8 had been among society’s most vulnerable-impoverished, abused, and mired with mental illness.
The women came to be known as the Jeff Davis 8, and local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, stirring a wave of panic across Jennings’ class-divided neighborhoods.
Murder in the Bayou is a New York Times bestselling chronicle of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Southern parish that is “part murder case, part corruption exposé, and part Louisiana noir” ( New York magazine).īetween 20, the bodies of eight women were discovered in Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the Jefferson Davis parish. A New York Times Bestseller & the Basis for the Hit Showtime Docuseries
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