New Orleans Unsolved

S2 Episode 13, The Trapper/ The Roper Murders: The Investigation

New Orleans Unsolved

Show Notes

Anna begins to lay out her four-year investigation of the Rope Murders. It includes a familiar person from season one who said he was shown photographs of dead boys tied up and left in rural settings. Anna analyzes the locations where the victims of the Rope Murders were left. What did they have in common? And to gain a better understanding of how something or someone can be hogtied, we turn to a man named Trapper John.

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