The women all also served as informants for the police about the local drug trade and often provided police with information about other Jeff Davis 8 victims before their own deaths. The victims also shared in common traits such as poverty, mental illness, and histories of drug abuse and sex work.

Some were related by blood (such as cousins Kristen Gary Lopez and Brittney Gary) or lived together (Gary lived with Crystal Benoit shortly before her death). Most of the victims knew each other well. Connections īrown's investigative work reveals many tangled connections between victims, suspects, and the police. Patterson and Brown had their throats slit the other bodies were in too advanced state of decomposition to determine the cause of death, though asphyxia is a suspected cause of death. The final body of Necole Guilory, 26, was found off Interstate 10 in 2009. Other victims were Ernestine Marie Daniels Patterson, 30 Kristen Gary Lopez, 21 Whitnei Dubois, 26 Laconia 'Muggy' Brown, 23 Crystal Shay Benoit Zeno, 24 and Brittney Gary, 17. The first victim, Loretta Lewis, 28, was found floating in a river by a fisherman on May 20, 2005. Brown's work has revealed that there are multiple suspects in the Jeff Davis 8 case and that therefore it is unlikely that this is a serial killer case furthermore, Brown has revealed that law enforcement's own witnesses have named members of local law enforcement as suspects in the case.

Īuthor and investigative reporter Ethan Brown has revealed how police investigations have been plagued by missteps in the sheriff's office, contributing to lost or missing evidence. Most of the bodies were found in such a state of decomposition as to make the actual cause of death difficult to determine. Between 20, the bodies of eight women were found in swamps and canals surrounding Jennings, Louisiana. The Jeff Davis 8, sometimes called the Jennings 8, refers to a series of unsolved murders in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana.

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