I just thought, “My God, what on Earth is going on in this Parish?” he said in Uproxx.īut even after the 2014 article about his investigation on the case that was published on Medium, the book was published, and now the series on Showtime, he doesn't know the answer beyond debunking the serial killer theory surrounding the case. Number two the guy was connected to the Jeff Davis 8.' Now, number one it’s a murder case, obviously.

At the crime scene, 'there was no crime scene tape. One night he met a 'white dude gangster' called Bowlegs who he learned was murdered the very next morning. 'Actually, you know, I went with nothing really in mind other than meeting people. 'I had accrued vacation time, some time off, and I said, 'I’ll just…'' he recalled for Uproxx. He was working at the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center and had a newborn son. He met Kirk Menard, who had done some work on the case, and followed what seems to be a gut instinct to investigate it further. As for his interest in the murders of the 'Jeff Davis 8,' - as the victims at the center of Murder In The Bayou are known - that began in the summer of 2011, Brown told Uproxx.

All of his books provide readers with a look inside the legal system from completely different angles.īrown is a Louisiana native, which explains the setting of his latter two books, including Murder In The Bayou. He authored three books before Murder In The Bayou was published in 2016: Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler (2005), Snitch: Informers, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice (2007), and Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans (2009). Basically, he advised attorneys about strategies they could use to potentially lessen their clients sentences. But, he's not law enforcement, a lawyer, or a judge.īrown is a former 'mitigation specialist for attorneys representing indigent defendants facing the death penalty in the Deep South and elsewhere,' according to the bio on his official website. So, who is Ethan Brown? His investigation in the case resulted in a book and a five-part docuseries on Showtime. Their murders remained unsolved and one man opened up further investigation into their deaths. Eight women died in or near the town of Jennings, Louisiana between 20. Either you gonna make it, or you gonna fall into that grave,' a woman says at the start of the Murder In The Bayou trailer.

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