But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes? In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana’s gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer’s identity. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. Blank also allegedly told authorities during his confession that “he wanted to have things he never could afford” and might have taken as much as $200,000 from his victims.The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. “This community was gripped with fear and these were cases that begged for solution, and we are quite satisfied that we have the murderer,” Wiley said.Ī search of Blank’s mobile home turned up a machete with traces of blood and human hair on it, Polk County (Texas) Sheriff Billy Ray Nelson Sr. He noted the links between Blank and some of the victims, and a description of the attacker provided by the Millets. They survived.Īscension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley said it was old-fashioned legwork by a task force that tied Blank to the killings. * Leonce and Joyce Millet, both 66, beaten and shot inside their Gonzales home July 7. Blank had worked at Brock’s husband’s car-repair shop. * Joan Brock, 55, beaten to death in the backyard of her LaPlace home May 14.
* Sam Arcuri, 76, and Louella Arcuri, 69, bludgeoned to death in their LaPlace home May 9.
A parish in Louisiana is what is called a county elsewhere. James and Ascension parishes say he will be charged with six murders and two attempted murders. He seemed like a nice man.”īlank, 35, was arrested on one murder charge and was taken to St. “This is basically a retirement community where people come to get away from the city and crime,” Mayor Jeanne Ann Byrd said. Many residents in Onalaska also are older and well-off. 14 in his new hometown of Onalaska, Texas, told police he stole from his victims to pay for his gambling habit. Most of his victims were well off and in their 50s, 60s or 70s.īlank, arrested Nov. Blank lived until a few months ago, say he also admitted trying to kill two others since the slayings began in October 1996. Sheriffs of three parishes in Louisiana, where Daniel J.
An auto mechanic who told neighbors in Texas he moved there to escape crime in Louisiana has admitted stabbing, bludgeoning or shooting six people to death before he left, police said.
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