Award-winning podcaster to focus on solving 13-year-old Holden cold case
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LIVINGSTON PARISH – A former criminal investigator is using his platform to dive into a cold case that has stumped law enforcement for more than a decade.
For the past two years, Woody Overton has been podcasting about local unsolved crimes. Recently, his work helped lead to an arrest in a killing that happened back in 2004. Now, he wants to find out what happened to Barbara Blount.
Almost two decades ago, beloved mother and sister Barbara Blount went missing from her home in Holden. Her family still doesn t know what happened to her.
Livingston authorities seek help in solving missing person s case from 2008
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Monday, May 03 2021
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Barbara Blount
LIVINGSTON PARISH - Authorities with the Livingston Parish Sheriff s Office are still investigating a missing person s case that dates back to over ten years ago. According to officials, Barbara Blount went missing in 2008 when she was 58 years old, and detectives are not giving up in their search efforts.
Sheriff Jason Ard is alerting the public as to the basics of the case in hopes that someone will speak up and provide pertinent information in relation to the case.
Deacon Alfred J. Thompson, a spiritual leader at churches from shore to shore, dies at 92
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
From the left, Rev. Terry Troia, Deacon Alfred J. Thompson and his son, James Thompson in Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church, Tompkinsville. (Courtesy/Jane Thompson)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Deacon Alfred J. Thompson, a spiritual leader and faithful servant of God at both Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Tompkinsville and the Church of the Holy Child in Eltingville, died peacefully Dec. 17 in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince’s Bay, after a bout with pneumonia. His age was 92.
Fingerprints shine a light on the slaves who built Knoxville s Blount Mansion and Tennessee
For years visitors were told William Blount, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, built his home. Fingerprints from his slaves tell the real story.
Angela Dennis, Knoxville News Sentinel
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11:57 am UTC Dec. 11, 2020
For generations, the erasure of the Black people who built America has been a roadblock on the path to progress. The difficult but honest history of enslaved people has been left out of important narratives.
This systemic racism through abatement is entrenched in the fabric of American society. But, finally, some historians are working to right that wrong.