The details of the Jeff Davis 8 murders are so incredible – and so quintessentially bayou – that if they were fiction they'd seem a little heavy-handed. Between 2005 and 2009, eight women from the town of Jennings, Louisiana, in Jefferson Davis Parish, were murdered, their bodies dumped in crawfish ponds and canals in the area. For years, the police department has implied that a serial killer was in the parish’s midst, but it's been over a decade since the killings began, and the cases remain unsolved.

It sounds like the plot of True Detective, but when the details are laid out all at once, as they are in Ethan Brown's mesmerizing new book, it starts to make the hit HBO show seem downright restrained – and the bayou look a lot like the rest of the country. Though the victims' causes of death varied – several had or appeared to have asphyxiated, two women had their throats slashed – the women of the Jeff Davis 8 had plenty in common. All of them were from South Jennings, the poor side of town, and knew each other.

They were all living in poverty and had criminal records filled with drug use and petty crime, often supporting their respective habits with sex work. And, as Brown writes, 'all eight of the victims snitched for local law enforcement about the Jennings drug trade.'

Brown was a writer and a private investigator living in New Orleans when he first read about the Jeff Davis 8 in a 2010 story. Though the article wasn't particularly long, it detailed the inability of Jefferson Davis law enforcement to get any leads on the case that had so far seen eight deaths – not negligible, especially in a town of only 10,000 residents. To Brown, something didn't seem right, so in mid-2011 he spent a week in the parish, talking to residents and people who knew the victims, even though he didn't have a story in mind at the time. If Jennings seemed like any other rural Louisiana town at first glance, it only took a few days for Brown's suspicions to grow deeper. Download Winamp Symbian S60v3.

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Halfway through the trip, he met a drug dealer named David Deshotel, who had recently earned the nickname 'Bowlegs' after a gunshot wound to the leg left him with a limp. Deshotel was a street player in town who had dated two of the Jeff Davis 8 victims. 'He was either in a wheelchair or on crutches, and he made an impression just because he had been shot and he was kind of a mess,' Brown tells Rolling Stone. 'I met him around sunset one evening and I woke up the next morning to the news that he'd been murdered a few hours earlier.' What the evidence started pointing to was not a serial killer evading capture. Brown drove to the crime scene – Deshotel had been shot to death in his home – and found it in chaos: Not only had the police not secured the scene or created a perimeter, but people were wandering in and out of the house, sometimes taking items with them. Brown was shocked – after all, this was the murder of someone intimately connected to other homicide victims.

Pes 5 Full Download Pc. Could this really be chalked up to police incompetence? Later that day, speaking with some former police officers, Brown recounted his experience.

'And they said, essentially, 'Welcome to Jennings. We're sure you've never seen anything like this in your life.' And these were cops.'

Over the next couple of years, Brown made repeated trips to the parish, interviewing sex workers who knew the victims, drug dealers, former cops, and witnesses that had been brought in by the multiagency task force assembled to help with the case. Many of his witnesses had been frequenters of the Boudreaux Inn, a now-shuttered motel where the town's drug dealers and sex workers would convene to get high and see clients. Hum Saath Saath Hain Full Movie Hd 1080p Free Download Kickass on this page.

Whenever he was back in New Orleans, Brown used Louisiana's excellent public records laws to request thousands of legal documents, police personnel files and building liens, which he pored over. According to Brown’s book, what the evidence started pointing to was not a serial killer evading capture but a steady escalation of blatant misconduct by law enforcement. There were allegations that officers had sex with the women who later became Jeff Davis 8 victims, and the task force was, Brown writes, 'a near case study in conflict of interest.'