Louisiana State Police

He's quite reputable, actually.

He was an investigator for Louisiana State Police and specialized in cold cases.

He was now an investigative consultant or is now an investigative consultant.

And at the time she reached out to him, he had just launched his new podcast called Real Life, Real Crime.

If anybody in Louisiana has seen Kristen Munn Holiday, a 22-year-old from Katy, Texas, the, uh, the Iberville Parish would like to have a word with you.

The Louisiana State Police say a crash happened in the early morning hours of September 30th on the eastbound side near milepost 128 on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge before the Whiskey Bay exit.

Uh-huh.

Very familiar with all that.

Mm-hmm.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office is leading the missing persons case.

Louisiana State Police are handling the crash and coordinating.

Searches have included the bridge area with volunteers such as the United Cajun Navy using boats and drones.

Stripping away the suicide label takes away the local sheriff's department's shield, forcing state authorities to acknowledge that a crime may have taken place.

Second, they are turning the cameras back on the badges because the Louisiana State Police and the Attorney General repeatedly turned the family away by pointing to the sheriff's original paperwork.

Jana is now pushing for a formal state investigation into the West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Department itself, demanding accountability for gross negligence and the immediate destruction of crime scene evidence.

Out of this tragedy, a legislative movement has been born.

which you gave that number to, well, looking on your phone, it is Detective Gilbra, who you gave the number to.

One of the Louisiana State Police detectives who was investigating the original murders.

Are you answering? I don't

think I want to.

You know, it was pretty funny.

Um, But, yeah, I got yelled at by the Louisiana State Troopers.

I mean –

Look at you name dropping over there.

and they led us across to the old courthouse, and the sheriff led us into a conference room, and it was Sheriff Brian Spielman, who is, I just think, the world of this dude, right? I mean, as a law enforcement professional, he's just one of a kind, and it's the lead detective, and I'm not going to say his name, who is also super duper, Super dude.

And he's actually retired from Louisiana State Police.

So I've known him for a long time.

But he's retired and works full-time for the Wesley Shannon Parish Sheriff's Office as pretty much their head detective.

We're just beginning.

He said we were working on this nonstop.

He said as we speak, whereas we're sitting in this room, there are four investigators from the Louisiana State Police that are out in the field interviewing people.

All right.

He told detectives, "Patricia Newman has been trying to gain control of Dorothy's property all along." It's not clear what detectives thought of this.

Subsequent statements that Nodier gave to the Louisiana State Police suggest they all thought Nodier was lying.

But whatever suspicions they had about Nodier's guilt would have been reinforced a few days later when St. Bernard detectives interviewed a man named Matthias Young.

According to a brief summary of that interview, Young used to work at the drugstore where Dorothy bought her medicine.

Private conversation, though.

And they were at the swear-in for the Louisiana State Patrol.

And I was told, on good authority, that they told them, we have a saying here in Mississippi.

F-A-F-O.