The Bayou Strangler: Race, Invisibility, and a Decade of Serial Murder in Louisiana

The Bayou Strangler: Race, Invisibility, and a Decade of Serial Murder in Louisiana

Between 1997 and 2006, Ronald Joseph Dominique, the Bayou Strangler, killed at least twenty-three men across six Louisiana parishes while law enforcement failed, repeatedly and catastrophically, to recognize the pattern connecting their deaths. His victims were poor, Black, homeless, and socially marginal: the people Steven Egger called "the less dead," whose deaths the American justice system is structurally...